Gas prices and inflation

Favreau cautioned that voters expecting quick gas price relief may be disappointed.

“Just because the price of oil is falling doesn't mean that the price of gas will as well”

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Favreau predicts gas prices will fall by November but not return to pre-war levels.

“gas prices come down between now and November, but they don't end up where they were before this conflict started at all”

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Favreau predicts the war's economic fallout will burden JD Vance in the 2028 Republican primary.

“This is going to be an issue for J.D. Vance in the Republican primary and whoever decides to run against him from outside the administration”

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Favreau predicted economic sentiment will not improve before Election Day even if the war ends immediately.

“I'm having a hard time imagining that people don't feel worse about the economy than they do today on Election Day”

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Pfeiffer argues Republicans' shift away from cost messaging reinforces the critique that they ignore costs.

“the main thing is always the main thing. And if you're off the main thing, you look like you're ignoring”

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Pfeiffer said the Freedom Fuel initiative fails even the White House standard of being seen to try.

“There are problems you can't solve. They're too big. Congress won't work. But you want people to see you're trying. This doesn't even qualify as trying”

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Pfeiffer argues the Trump administration cannot acknowledge economic pain because doing so would mean admitting Trump failed.

“you cannot admit that things are bad because to admit things are bad is to admit that Trump failed”

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Pfeiffer argued the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is plainly affecting Americans through gas, diesel and airline costs.

“if the Strait being closed doesn't affect us, why are our gas prices up more than a dollar? Why are they about to hit an average of $4 nationally any day now?”

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Vietor argues farmers are unmoved by a slight weekly dip because diesel prices remain far above recent levels.

“Farmers know that diesel prices are way up from a month ago and way, way, way up from a year ago”

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Vietor argues that a single steel plant announcement for 2030 will not address Iowa farmers' anger over doubled diesel prices.

“I don't think an announcement of one potential factory by 2030 is going to deal with that”

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Vietor argues that Hassett's framing is out of touch because spending more on necessities does not indicate optimism.

“Spending more on gas and groceries does not suggest that you're optimistic about the future”

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Vietor predicted gas prices, around $4.12 nationally, will rise further and possibly dramatically before falling.

“gas prices are what like 412 today is the national average i think that goes up before it goes down and it could go up dramatically”

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Lovett blames high fuel prices on Trump introducing instability in trade and the Middle East.

“because the president is a capricious buffoon who has introduced incredible instability in trade”

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Lovett argues voters no longer believe Trump's promises, treating the steel plant as something to believe only when they see it.

“So I'm sure people would appreciate a new steel plant, but it's a kind of believe it when I see it situation”

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Lovett argues that forecasts of falling gas prices are unreliable because markets already price in known expectations.

“Nobody knows what gas prices will be in September or October. If they did, that's what the price would be”

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Lovett argues the Trump administration's spin on high prices mirrors the way Biden spun inflation.

“it's very amazing how much it sounds like the way Biden was spinning this”

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Wagner argued the apparently subsidized Freedom Fuel stations show Trump is a socialist.

“like I sort of delight in it because it is further proof that Donald Trump is a socialist”

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Wagner argues Trump's lack of empathy on inflation undermines his party's ability to manage the political fallout.

“if he's going to try and manage the political reality that he and his party are facing, you got to start the sentence with empathy”

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Wagner argues that gas prices will not fall quickly even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens, due to shipping and refinery disruptions.

“The gas prices are not going down, even if the Strait of Hormuz opens back up tomorrow”

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Kelly disputed Trump's claim that gas prices will drop immediately after the war, warning of coming inflation from the Hormuz disruption.

“The rolling inflation that's coming our way as a result of what's been happening in the strait is coming like a tidal wave”

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Kelly predicts the full energy-price pain from the war will hit over the summer, shortly before the midterm elections.

“We're only feeling the initial tremors that the full pain will come just in time for summer vacations”

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Chatzky says wages have lagged inflation for roughly 20 years, apart from a brief pandemic-era blip.

“for pretty much the last 20 years, wages have not kept up with inflation, which means your dollar is buying less and less”

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Cooke argues that American soldiers' deaths and gas prices are the only costs of the war that ordinary Americans care about.

“there's only really two things that Americans would care about. They have a right to care about both of these things. One is losing American soldiers. Two is gas prices”

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Mahan argues California's gas tax is regressive and should be converted into a flat fee that EV owners also pay.

“I've argued that the gas tax in California has become the most regressive tax that affects people living in the kinds of communities I grew up in”

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Frisella recounts watching customers at gas stations pay for food with loose change, which he had not seen in years.

“I see people literally, and I mean this, counting out coins, change coins, to pay for whatever it is they're buying”

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Rogan proposes a national oil company selling only domestically to insulate Americans from global prices.

“They're a bunch of crooks. We should have a national oil company. And only sell in America”

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Burchett calls fuel pricing a racket, questioning how already-refined gasoline rises overnight while the U.S. imports no Iranian oil.

“we get zero oil from iran zero we we export oil right now and yet the price is going through the roof”

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