Some midterm battleground states are being hit particularly hard

The Salinas City Council updated its emergency operations plan for the first time in over a decade.

The chest freezer in a frozen foods shop at Sabon Gari market in Kano stopped running at night in March. Alima, its owner, did not experience this as an economic event. She experienced it as a decision taken at seven in the evening, beside a generator, doing the arithmetic every Nigerian trader now does in her head: diesel at a price she had never paid before, against fish that might or might not sell tomorrow.

Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi estimates the Iran war has already cost the average American household a significant sum, with higher energy prices making up more than half and rising interest rates more than a quarter. Mortgage rates have climbed to seven and a half percent, and the bill keeps growing weekly.

Increased fuel costs from the Iran war now exceed $1,000 per U.S. household, according to Brown University calculations.

President Donald Trump claimed Sunday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to an “energy ceasefire.” The announcement followed a deal he unveiled Oct. 9 to bring Russian diesel to U.S. and global markets—and Oct. 10 remarks blaming President Volodymyr Zelensky specifically for the diesel shortage driving up prices in the U.S.

In his zeal to somehow push the cost of diesel down ahead of the 2026 mid-term elections, US President Donald Trump has turned to the nation’s chief Cold War enemy — Russia — for a helping hand. Sure, when all else fails, trust Russian President Vladimir President to come through for his good friend, Donald Trump. As for any benefit to the farmers, truckers, and others who actually care about the cost of diesel fuel, the joke’s on them…

Sure, let's blame another country that's at war.

The war has cost billions and spiked gas prices in the process.

You can vote for or against the people in charge without having had real control over decisions they already made. The decision comes first. The costs spread through society. Only later do voters get to judge the officials still managing the consequences.

Seven months after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran closed the world's most critical oil chokepoint, the economic shockwaves are landing hardest on Latino workers, remittance-dependent families in Mexico, and voters heading to the polls in Brazil.

The Group of Seven (G7) countries said Friday that the nations would release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel products in the coming months, starting with “substantial” amounts of diesel. The move comes amid a global shortage largely attributed to slowdowns of the passage of oil through the Strait of Hormuz.

Lawmakers are pitching diesel-export limits, tax holidays and other relief, but time is running out.

Some states have allowed temporary use of tax-exempt diesel for harvest transport

A favorable diesel price lock that helped the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) narrow last year’s budget gap ended three months ago. But the financial woes facing the statewide bus agency from skyrocketing fuel prices is just beginning with the cost of diesel now over two and a half times what was budgeted for this year.

Americans have spent a staggering amount more on gasoline since the war in Iran began.

Nationally, diesel prices are at record highs – more than $6.50 a gallon and still climbing – while gas prices are on track to have their highest September on record. As prices for Americans continue to soar at the pump, Trump is telling Americans that it’s a “very inexpensive” price to pay. Trump’s attempts to pass the buck belie Americans’ reality: his illegal war in Iran, his tariffs, and the rest of Republicans’ failed economic policies have made life unaffordable for families nationwide. While Trump continues to claim affordability is a “hoax” and a “con job,” Americans are feeling the strain of Trump’s policies on their pocketbooks.

Since the war with Iran began on Feb. 28, higher energy prices have picked Americans' pockets.

The conflict has delivered few durable gains for U.S. security while generating mounting military, economic, and humanitarian costs

Military operations, the consumption of munitions, the deployment of forces, equipment losses, and economic consequences do not disappear because of a change in terminology.

The cost of diesel quietly raises the price of goods across the economy. You're likely paying for it already.

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.

High energy costs at the pump and strategic setback for US in the Iran war will likely cost Trump in the midterm elections.