Military operations, the consumption of munitions, the deployment of forces, equipment losses, and economic consequences do not disappear because of a change in terminology.
It turns out all those extra cents a gallon you have been paying for fuel since the United States launched strikes against Iran in late February have been adding up, with Americans spending more than $108.2 billion more than they would have had there been no war.
Gas prices continue to surge, in large part due to the continuing war with Iran. News4’s Adam Tuss has a look at where things stand in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
Americans have spent an extra $102 billion on gasoline and diesel due to the Iran war, and the tally is still rising, according to a real-time tracker from Brown University.
Day after day, the Iran war is tightening the financial squeeze on American consumers through sharply higher energy prices, with the cumulative increase in U.S. gasoline and diesel spending reaching an estimated $100 billion since the conflict began in late February.
President Donald Trump's ongoing war in Iran is costing Americans $1 million every two minutes in higher energy prices, according to a Brown University analysis. That's a total of $100 billion in added costs.
The war in Iran has so far cost U.S. consumers $100.2 billion in increased energy costs, with the bill rising by about $1 million every two minutes, according to a real-time estimate from Brown University.
The war in Iran has now cost U.S. consumers $100 billion in higher energy prices, and the bill is rising another $1 million about every two minutes, per a real-time estimate from Brown University as of Monday morning.