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Anonymous09/07/26, 06:06No.1534766Fuel prices at record Labor Day high in US thanks to trump's failing Iran War

https://apnews.com/article/labor-day-record-high-gas-prices-dffb7d3fa06ef930aaeebc380e5e4e0e It’s never been more expensive in the U.S. to fill up the tank and take one last summer trip over the Labor Day weekend. The average price of regular gas was $4.14 a gallon heading into the holiday, nearly a dollar higher than last year and well above the Labor Day weekend record of $3.82 from 2012, according to AAA motor club. Nicole Collins planned to head from Philadelphia to South Carolina to visit friends, but she said her family has spent most of the summer close to home and not taking their typical weekend trips because driving has gotten so expensive. “Gas is pretty high right now. It doesn’t help that we also have a baby, so we also have to pay for that,” Collins said outside a gas station in Claymont, Delaware, where regular gas was $4.199 a gallon. Prices shot up after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February and have not settled down since. Crude oil traffic through the key Strait of Hormuz has plunged, and Iran has refused to reopen the waterway. “Everything points to the Iran War and the Strait of Hormuz,” said Tom Seng, a professor of energy finance at Texas Christian University. Energy Secretary Chris Wright offered few specifics on when the nation’s drivers might see relief at the gas pump, acknowledging that prices are higher now than Labor Day 2025. But diesel is a different story: It hit a national average of $5.85 a gallon Friday, a record. Trucks and other freight delivery systems use a lot of diesel, and that increased transportation cost is being passed on to consumers, whether at the grocery store or through package delivery services. “It doesn’t really seem like there’s an end to it,” Collins said.

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Anon09/07/26, 06:07No.1534767

Gas prices typically drop as the summer driving season ends and refineries turn to making a cheaper winter blend.But Seng said there are other factors this year even beyond the volatile situation in the Middle East that make future prices unpredictable. U.S. refineries are working at 98% capacity, many in the unusually harsh Texas heat. If there are problems there or a hurricane knocks some systems offline, prices will struggle to drop.And it’s not just a Middle East problem. Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian refineries are squeezing diesel supplies. Chinese refiners are seeing declining outputs as well, said Matthew Metzgar, a clinical professor of economics at UNC Charlotte.“There’s just less gasoline coming out of those refineries,” Metzgar said.Wright, the energy secretary, said the Trump administration was taking steps to increase production and that the markets forecast lower prices in the coming months.“If you look at the futures prices, if you wanted to buy today in bulk gasoline for two months out in November, it’s about $0.35 cheaper than it is today. So the marketplace thinks gasoline prices are going to move meaningfully lower,” he said.Geopolitically, though, there is little a driver can do to knock down gas prices.But using price apps can help save a little money, especially on long trips where gas by the interstate could be 10 to 15 cents per gallon more expensive than at stations a short drive down the road, Metzgar said.

Anon09/07/26, 11:40No.1534778

Our local station has been under $2/gallon for two months now. It is the lowest gas has been since Trump's first term.

Anon09/07/26, 12:12No.1534779

>The average price of regular gas was $4.14 a gallon No one cares. No one wants to vote for your busted ass party. >Prices shot up after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February It would be nice if AP would at some point tell people why this happened.

Anon09/07/26, 18:51No.1534813

>you lost, I won you really don't know how this works, esl shill I'm fine with you deluding yourself

Anon09/07/26, 21:57No.1534840

esl shill isn't a very good actor

Anon09/07/26, 22:07No.1534841

Liberal faggot loses online argument.

Anon09/07/26, 23:01No.1534849

1534779 >No one wants to vote for your busted ass party So many voted for a Democrat mayor in the part of Florida which includes Mar-a-Lago, so there's a migger's opinions proved wrong.

Anon09/08/26, 01:25No.1534891

Most red states are under 2 bucks a gallon. The office of the President confirmed this themselves. Filled my tank for 1.86 just this morning. Maybe don't live in an overregulated blue state? Daily reminder Cuckifnornians are paying something like 6+ a gallon thanks to Newscums regulations and shutting down refineries across the state

Anon09/08/26, 01:26No.1534892

>5-7-5, boy 1534857 >When the Blue wave is a red tide. >A faggot hanging >From the tree on rope swaying >Note to fam says DRUMPF!!!. 1534887 That which cannot read An asshole that gets it wrong This fag's not OK

Anon09/08/26, 01:28No.1534893

Most Russian shillfarms are perfectly good jobs with healthcare and other benefits. When I lie about being an American and get called names for it, I recognize that I am doing my patriotic duty, and my mother is not ashamed of me at all

Anon09/08/26, 01:53No.1534908

>the Nazi's defending Berlin in 1945 are winning because they haven't given up yet bros

Anon09/08/26, 02:25No.1534922

1534908 >the Nazi's defending >Nazi's >inb4 "grammar nazi", "context" etc the Nazi's what? Their inferiority due to three of their 'superior technology' Me-262 jets and their supposedly 'Aryan master race' pilots shot down over Berlin in one day in March 1945 by North American P-51 Mustangs piloted by those in the USAAF known as the Tuskegee Airmen? They couldn't defend themselves, let alone Berlin. But that alone proved they were - and their modern equivalents that allow that retarded thinking to exist in their lone brain cell - inferior subhumans. >the Nazi's defending >Nazi's The esl shill proves itself to be inferior. Just ask a certain Supreme Commander in WWII who ultimately became POTUS several years later. Certainly the last decent Republican president: Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Anon09/08/26, 11:07No.1534972

1534963 >energy scammer I wonder why Musk doesn't put internal combustion engines in Tesla vehicles? I wonder why Musk had a Tesla battery Gigafactory built in China for the bargain price of Xitter being denied the right to exist in that country? I wonder why a games company in Shanghai is so rich, they're funding research into fusion reactors? Also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-8d2b6944-4f7a-45b4-96fd-2d92499ff97d Scared of being overtaken by other countries? Scared that another country will win the fusion race? >remodeled phones by HTC: the Trump Phone. So much for 'America First' >diplomatic relations & trade - including heavy investment by NVidia - with Vietnam. Thus Trump supports communist countries >Tesla vehicles - including Cybertrucks driven by miggers 'to own the libs' - powered by Chinese-made batteries >miggers use Trump Phones made in China >GPUs made in Vietnam In Soviet China, scammed is you Trump.

Anon09/08/26, 21:02No.1535007

speaking english as a second language makes you a racist calling out people for not speaking english as a native language makes you an anti-racist

Anon09/08/26, 23:59No.1535035

haha get fucked!

Anon09/10/26, 14:13No.1535274

Does the average American even KNOW that their and the world's current gas prices are a direct effect of trumps idiotic Iran War? People worldwide have to pay for that, it's actually interesting that so few complain directly towards the Trump government. Must be his special orange aura or so, who know.

Anon09/10/26, 18:56No.1535368

1535310 >turning our kids in trannies >in >inb4 "grammar nazi", "context" etc The esl shill thinks there's a scheme where people can trade 1535310's kids for old transistor radios, but it's not only the fact that the esl shill will never breed that is the least of 1535310's problems. The educationally inferior such as the esl shill. This is what it comes down to. Being this educationally inferior should be illegal, and turning esl shills in for the crimes of terrorism against the English language, and for being so sexually obsessed, that's what sane Americans would be interested in. 1535310 turning into an esl shill. Meanwhile, the Democrats will regain the Senate & HoR in the midterms and then win the election in late 2028. >our Hi, gun shill that isn't American, thus will never own a real gun, and will only have a toy airsoft one.