American drivers have paid an additional $8.4 billion in fuel costs since the Iran war started, according to an estimate from the Joint Economic Committee’s Democratic minority. That breaks down to about $240 million more per day just to fill up tanks. This financial hit has been building since February 28, when the U.S. and Israel initiated attacks on Iran.
The lawmakers gathered their data from multiple sources. They looked at daily average gasoline prices tracked by AAA from February 28 through March 31, tank sizes of the top-selling gas vehicles from auto researcher Edmunds, and federal fuel consumption data from the Federal Highway Administration and the Energy Information Administration.
