Gas prices are up 15 cents a gallon since Sunday, as the Trump regime’s plan to ask the allies it had spent the past year telling to go to hell for help with the Iran war it started for no good reason isn’t meeting with any success.
GasBuddy has the national average of a gallon of regular unleaded at $3.83, up from $3.68 a gallon on Sunday, $2.94 a gallon on the eve of the war on Feb. 28, and $2.77 a gallon on Jan. 1.
That’s a dollar a gallon more, give or take – for the average U.S. driver, who puts 1,000 miles a month on the odometer, that works out to an extra $40 a month; if this continues, that’s going to get to close to $500 for the year.
Diesel was $3.52 a gallon on Jan. 1, $3.75 a gallon the eve of the war – on Tuesday, it passed the $5 mark, getting to $5.03 a gallon.
You’re paying more at the pump, and you’re paying more at the grocery store – since everything you buy at the grocery store gets there in a truck, whose driver is paying $1.28 more a gallon to fuel it than was the case three weeks ago.
That’s $380 for a typical semi on a long haul.
Multiplied over and over and over.
And then, we’re told, by the guy whose title in Team Trump is National Economic Director, Kevin Bessent, that if the war were to be extended, which it’s going to be:
“It would hurt consumers, and we’d have to think about if that continued, what we would have to do about that, but that’s really the least of our concerns right now.”
Least of their concerns.
The price of eggs was what got Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
Keep in mind, LBJ dropped out in 1968 because the war in Vietnam was going the way it was.
Ol’ Donald Trump has himself a price of eggs and bad war problem going on right now.
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