Secretary of state says US is ‘very fortunate’ as Trump’s Iran war pushes gas price near $4.50 a gallon – key US politics stories from Tuesday, 5 May at a glance
Marco Rubio has a message for Americans worried about soaring gas prices sparked by Trump’s war on Iran: it could be worse.
With average US fuel prices now approaching $4.50 a gallon – their highest level in four years – Donald Trump’s secretary of state was asked on Tuesday how long Americans should accept them at such levels.
Other countries were suffering “big time”, Rubio replied. The US was “very fortunate” as a net exporter of oil, as it is not as reliant as other countries on oil from the Middle East, he said.
“There are people that we’re predicting would be much higher at this point,” he claimed, “but we’re not taking that for granted.”
