The price of a gallon of regular gasoline climbed 31 cents in the past week, spiking to an average of $4.48 per gallon Tuesday, according to AAA.

The price of a gallon of regular gasoline climbed 31 cents in the past week, spiking to an average of $4.48 per gallon Tuesday, according to AAA, hitting the wallets of drivers after rising 50% since the war with Iran began.

The main reason drivers are paying more at the pump is because of the global energy crisis caused by the Iran war. The price of crude oil, which is the main ingredient in gasoline, has been climbing for most of the past two months because the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of the world’s crude oil normally passes, has effectively been shut, and oil tankers have been stranded there unable to deliver crude.

  • Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
    24·
    17 hours ago

    So far let’s go over the things that didn’t sway their core voter base:

    • extremely well documented pedophilia
    • sharp increases in the cost of living
    • baseless war
    • taxpayer funded ballroom
    • legalizing corruption
    • firing workers without cause
    • calling their voter base stupid
    • refusing town halls to even hear their constituents concerns
    • turning campaign donations into a personal slush fund
    • deregulating telecom and tech

    That’s the power of holding the mouthpiece of truth after epistemic collapse

    • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
      9·
      15 hours ago

      Apparently didn’t really sway Veteran voters either…

      • A well-known draft dodger
      • Called POWs and KIAs “suckers and losers”
      • Slashed VA funding and benefits
      • Pissed on the sanctity of Arlington National Cemetery, including assaulting Army employees, for a campaign photo-op
      • Openly stayed he’s cool with lots of soldiers dying in Iran
      • Working towards instituting the draft, along with making mandatory Military Aptitude Testing in all public schools
    • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      15 hours ago

      Here’s the thing: Trump knows his base.

      His base cares more that he’s racist towards brown people than any of the things listed.

      He could literally grow devil horns, start chanting in Latin, smell of fire and brimstone and Christ himself could come down from heaven and say, “Donald Trump is the anti-Christ” and his base will still vote for him and worship him so long as he is punishing the right people.