Drivers are paying more at the pump, and President Donald Trump is pointing somewhere other than the waterway Iran closed after the U.S.-Israeli conflict with its regime began. In a Truth Social post on Monday, he said refinery trouble is what is lifting gasoline prices.
He argued that oil is already moving out of the region in large amounts, almost every day. The strain, he wrote, sits with plants that turn crude into fuel: Russian sites hit by Ukraine, and U.S. sites he said are being shut in Democratic-led states, including California.
