US drivers paid a staggering $147.7 billion extra for fuel since the start of the Iran war

That was almost three times as much as what businesses producing and refining oil in the United States made in the same period in 2025.

Goods and energy cost thousands more as a result of the president's policies.

After 52 years as a Republican, I believe Oklahoma needs change

"We're making a freaking fortune," Trump said, nearly eight months into the Iran war.

A new Brown University report argues powering down a misaligned artificial intelligence would be tougher — and take longer — than many experts assume.

The Tehran talks signal regional efforts to prevent another war and reduce dependence on Washington

Jeff D Colgan is a Richard Holbrooke Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. The US midterm poll days away, he spoke to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke about fossil fuels, wars, leaders & voters shaping America.

“I don’t give a damn, I’m going to say it: We’re making a freaking fortune,” the president said at a rally in Georgia.

The Trump administration’s war in Iran has raised prices across the board, increased inflation, and costs about $2,000 per household.

A Brown University Iran War Energy Cost Tracker estimates the war in Iran has added more than $6.6 billion in gas and diesel costs to Californians.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that waives many of the sanctions in the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, which Congress passed in the late senator’s name last month. The waiver, coming a week after Trump announced a diesel deal with Russia, also underscores fraying relations between the U.S. and Ukraine.

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.

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.

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.

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.