Donald Trump’s war in Iran has driven US petrol prices into the red zone for motorists, heaping more pressure on the president to justify a conflict that threatens to hit Americans with a new inflationary shock.
Petrol prices rose to $3.58 a gallon on Wednesday, according to motoring group AAA, up 20 per cent since the US president launched the war. They are now higher than at any point in his two terms.
The surge past the $3.50 threshold offers voters already concerned about affordability in Trump’s economy another leading inflation indicator — visible up and down the country’s roads.
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