{"id":597141,"date":"2026-05-06T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=597141"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:40:00","slug":"u-s-gasoline-tops-4-50-as-shock-awe-level-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=597141","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Gasoline Tops $4.50 As “Shock & Awe” Level Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Gasoline Tops $4.50 As “Shock & Awe” Level Approaches <\/span><\/p>\n

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WTI futures plunged more than 11% to the $90-a-barrel level after Axios reported<\/a> earlier this morning that the U.S. is nearing a preliminary agreement with Iran to end the war. The sharp decline suggests traders are beginning to price in a potential geopolitical de-escalation and the potential reopening of the Hormuz chokepoint.<\/p>\n

At the pump, however, the latest AAA data as of Wednesday morning show that the national average for regular 87-octane gasoline has climbed to $4.50 a gallon, the highest level since July 2022.<\/p>\n

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There will be a lag. Even if the Trump administration and Tehran formalize a deal in the near term, the immediate result will not be a collapse in gas and diesel pump prices, but rather an approaching peak.<\/p>\n

Lower crude prices typically take a few weeks to work through wholesale markets, inventories, distribution networks, and retail outlets before meaningful declines in gas and diesel are visible at pump stations to consumers.<\/p>\n

During a Monday press conference, Trump said he expects the price of gasoline to drop “substantially” following the end of the US-Iran war.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I see it going down very substantially when this is over, I think very rapidly too, at levels that you’ve never seen because there’s a lot of energy out there, ships all over the world that are loaded up with it,” Trump said.<\/em><\/p>\n

“They can’t do much with it because they got kidnapped by a pretty evil place. But we’re taking care of it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Last week, Trump said pump prices would “come crashing down as soon as this war is over.”<\/p>\n

GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan warned that the $5-a-gallon threshold<\/strong> is typically the “shock and awe” level that triggers demand destruction.<\/p>\n

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With the national average for gas already near $4.50 a gallon, and California prices above $6, the political and consumer pressure backdrop for the Trump administration has intensified in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

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The administration now appears to be pushing hard for a near-term Iran resolution ahead of Memorial Day weekend, one of the largest U.S. driving periods of the year after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
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U.S. Gasoline Tops $4.50 As “Shock & Awe” Level Approaches WTI futures plunged more than 11% to the $90-a-barrel level after Axios reported earlier this morning that the U.S. is nearing a preliminary agreement with Iran to end the war. The sharp decline suggests traders are beginning to price in a potential geopolitical de-escalation and… Continue reading U.S. Gasoline Tops $4.50 As “Shock & Awe” Level Approaches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/597142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}