You're Paying $4.55 a Gallon for a War Nobody Voted For

Gas is $4.55 a gallon. Nationally. Every single state in America is now above four dollars — for the first time in years — heading into Memorial Day weekend.

That's not an accident. That's a policy choice. And the people who made that choice are not the ones paying for it.

Here's what Washington won't connect for you: we are six weeks into what was supposed to be a two-week deadline to reach a deal with Iran. Six weeks. The deadline passed. The deal didn't materialize. And while the foreign policy establishment sits in its think tanks deciding what to do next, you're standing at the pump watching the numbers tick past sixty, seventy, eighty dollars.
Think about what that actually means. Across the country, a new poll says the Iran war is "broadly unpopular." Many Americans doubt whether the fight is worth the costs. A lot of them say it affects how they'll vote. That's not isolationism — that's basic arithmetic. When Middle East instability drives crude oil prices up, American families don't get a geopolitical exemption. They just pay more.

Nobody will say this, but the Iran war was sold to Americans the way everything gets sold in Washington: with urgency, with certainty, and with very little actual debate. Two weeks. Clean operation. Move on.

Six weeks later, here we are.

Ask yourself who profits from the delay. The answer is not the family filling up a minivan in Ohio. It's not the small business owner trucking goods across state lines and watching fuel costs eat into every margin he has. It's not any ordinary American, anywhere.

The ruling class has a term for what's happening to you. They call it "geopolitical instability." You probably call it something else when you swipe your card at the pump.

Here's the thing about $4.55 a gallon: it doesn't stay at the pump. It compounds. Food gets more expensive because it gets shipped. Services get more expensive because people drive to them. Everything downstream of fuel costs rises. And here's something the establishment will absolutely not tell you — the people most exposed to this aren't the cable news anchors debating the Iran deal in climate-controlled studios. They're people who can't work from home. People who commute. People who drive for a living. People for whom an extra fifty dollars a fill-up isn't a rounding error.

Now look at what's happening in Washington. Four Republican senators just voted to direct Trump to pull the military out of the Iran conflict. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana — who just got beaten in a primary — reversed his position and was among them. When a senator who just lost his own race decides to vote against the president on the most sensitive foreign policy question on the board, you're not watching principle at work. You're watching a man with nothing left to lose casting a vote he didn't have the nerve to cast before.

That's the institution that's managing this.

Breitbart's financial analysts put it plainly this week: Republican economic optimism is getting "pulled down by the tides of war." The market doesn't think interest rates are coming down anytime soon. Inflation is creeping back. The economic progress of the last two years is fighting against a conflict nobody debated, nobody voted on, and nobody seems to know how to end.
The summer driving season starts this weekend. Gas will not get cheaper over the next three months. Not with Middle East crude still spiking. Not with no deal in sight. Not while the foreign policy apparatus that started this is the same one that's supposed to finish it.

Here's what the regime won't tell you: the people who made the decisions now costing you at the pump will be fine. They always are. They have expense accounts and drivers and financial portfolios hedged against exactly this kind of instability. The foreign policy establishment does not bear the cost of its own miscalculations. That's what makes it so dangerous. That's why it keeps making them.

A two-week deadline passed six weeks ago. The deal isn't here. The price you're paying is $4.55 a gallon and climbing.
Someone should be asked to explain that.

Don't hold your breath waiting for them to volunteer.