{"id":547896,"date":"2026-03-27T06:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/547896\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T06:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:01:20","slug":"see-how-much-trumps-war-on-iran-has-raised-your-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/547896\/","title":{"rendered":"See How Much Trump&#8217;s War On Iran Has Raised Your Gas Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> campaigned on bringing down prices, but they\u2019re surging at gas pumps thanks to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/iran-war\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"war in Iran\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69c3f2b4e4b0e447525b5916\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/news\/topic\/iran-war\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">war in Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Within just a few weeks, Americans have seen gasoline prices jump by double-digit percentages because of rising global oil prices. The jump has been caused by the war that has spread across the Middle East and effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil is shipped.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. average cost per gallon has climbed by nearly $1, and <a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/commodity\/crude-oil\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"oil barrel prices\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69c3f2b4e4b0e447525b5916\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/commodity\/crude-oil\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">oil barrel prices<\/a> have surpassed $100 \u2014 at one point topping $119 \u2014 from around $70 before the first strikes. It\u2019s highly uncertain where prices will go from here, with tentative diplomatic negotiations beginning while the war enters its second month.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how prices are looking today, nationally and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/petroleum\/weekly\/includes\/padds.php\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"regionally,\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69c3f2b4e4b0e447525b5916\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/petroleum\/weekly\/includes\/padds.php\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">regionally,<\/a> as categorized by the Energy Information Administration, and how they compare to before the war started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump campaigned on bringing down prices, but they\u2019re surging at gas pumps thanks to his war&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,12,29429,228242],"class_list":{"0":"post-547896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-gas-prices","11":"tag-iran-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}