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Trump: Surging gas costs are ‘very inexpensive price to pay’ for Iran war
President Trump referred to surging gas prices as a small “price to pay” for the U.S. war in Iran while speaking to a crowd of supporters Wednesday in North Carolina. “It’s a very inexpensive price to pay for what we’ve done. Remember that. It’s a little more. Frankly, even if it was a lot more,”…
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Source context: Data: Axios research. Note: Some countries use a quota system for gasoline. Malaysia's figure reflects the unsubsidized market rate. Chart: Noah Bressner/AxiosThe Iran war is driving fuel prices higher worldwide, leading to angry protests around the globe and straining the econom…
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Data: Axios research. Note: Some countries use a quota system for gasoline. Malaysia's figure reflects the unsubsidized market rate. Chart: Noah Bressner/AxiosThe Iran war is driving fuel prices higher worldwide, leading to angry protests around the globe and straining the economies of countries that have nothing to do with the war.Why it matters: It's not…
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President Trump referred to surging gas prices as a small “price to pay” for the U.S. war in Iran while speaking to a crowd of supporters Wednesday in North Carolina. “It’s a very inexpensive price to pay for what we’ve done. Remember that. It’s a little more. Frankly, even if it was a lot more,”…
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The ongoing war in Iran is putting Iowa Republicans in a bind, as rising gas and diesel prices hammer the agricultural sector and put incumbents on increasingly difficult political terrain. The strain on Iowa Republicans from the war was on stark display Tuesday, when two Iowa Republicans, Reps. Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller Meeks,…
The reasons aren't hard to divine. Trump won on a platform of lowering costs and avoiding foreign entanglements. Now diesel prices are hovering above $6 a gallon because of a war that predictably squeezed Middle Eastern energy supplies.
