Trump touted the rising stock market as he brushed off concerns that Americans are laboring under higher gas prices as a result of the Iran war.

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Donald Trump said Thursday that gasoline prices are “not very high.”

A Quinnipiac University national poll of registered voters showed that 65% of U.S. voters blame Trump either “a lot” or “some” for the rise in gas prices seen since the beginning of the Iran war.

Trump said those prices are not as high as what was expected from the war, which he said was aimed at denying Iran the ability to produce a nuclear weapon.

    • Jiral@lemmy.org
      9·
      13 hours ago

      Not that far off. In Vienna for example petrol starts currently at 1.6 EUR/L (7.1 USD/gal) and Diesel is around 1.8 EUR/L (>8 USD/gal).

      The US has a serious problem of being hooked on unsustainably cheap fuel due to oversized vehicles, spread out, car only, suburbia etc. Add to that the lagging transition to renewables (or rather the outright hostility of the US administration, actively preventing projects)

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 hours ago

        I’ll be honest I’ve been biking around town lately (mine’s a stupidly heavy cargo trike with an aftermarket class 2 motor slapped onto it, i love it) and with gas prices the way they’ve been, a lot of pickup truck drivers have been asking about my mileage (35-40 miles per charge, which on solar is free).

        • Jiral@lemmy.org
          1·
          4 hours ago

          That’s a great choice, where the urban layout allows for it, without feeling suicidal. I know also the US has places where this is perfectly feasible.

      • metallic_substance@lemmy.world
        7·
        18 hours ago

        Yeah, but that’s in euro-dollars, or whatever you call them over there. Who even knows how much that is in real dollars? (I honestly wish I could claim /s on this, but this is literally how most Americans would see it)

        • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.socialEnglish
          31·
          16 hours ago

          It’s definitely a stereotype for a reason. Briefly talked to a US or Canadian couple in their 40s-50s last year, they were traveling Europe. They were in slight disbelief that a driver wouldn’t take dollars/any other currency from a Chinese couple who had no Euros left on them. I wonder how it would go for me if I tried to pay in Euros in NA. Probably not great.

          • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
            4·
            12 hours ago

            I’d really like to believe it wasn’t a Canadian couple 😭. We deal with Americans trying to use USD here too and I can’t see any of us expecting to be able to use CAD anywhere outside of our country

            • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
              2·
              8 hours ago

              A lot of border communities in the states at least accept Canadian currency, usually at 30% increase. Here in Maine we have the ITS (international snowmobile trail system) and plenty of folks from Quebec and New Brunswick ride over and end up spending Canadian currency.