Absolutely it was. Trump is always right, 100%.
Posted on 03/08/2026 8:34:13 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Trump said Sunday that increasing prices of oil are “a very small price to pay” for “safety and peace” amid the U.S. conflict with Iran.
“Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World, Safety and Peace,” Trump said in a Sunday evening Truth Social post.
“ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!” he added.
The U.S. conflict in Iran caused a recent surge in domestic oil and gas prices, with the U.S. national average for a gallon of regular gasoline going up by 14 percent between last week and Saturday, per data from AAA.
Iran has effectively closed off the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow maritime passageway that ushers roughly 20 percent of global oil supply from the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean and beyond.
Trump is mindful of economic concerns, as voters have consistently ranked affordability near the top of issues they face ahead of the midterms. The Treasury Department has said they will soon release plans to mitigate the rising energy costs.
West Texas Intermediate crude oil was more than $91 a barrel as of 4 p.m. EST Friday, rising $10 on that day. Brent crude — the international benchmark — rose $7 to $92 during the same time period.
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The destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World, Safety.
Indeed and no whining about it.
Absolutely it was. Trump is always right, 100%.
and the economy would be dead—literally with every company and person running towards the presumed safest locations and investments possible
Short term pain, long term gain. Making the gulf free of Iraninan terrorism would lower oil prices for the long term.
Is the election this week?
NeverTrumpers have to NeverTrump.
Xanax may help you
You are the most myopic poster on free republic. Your thinking is borderline juvenile.
Thanks for your sane post. They are getting harder to find here.
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That’s funny. I never felt the least bit threatened or unsafe from Iran, perhaps they were a threat to the Israelis or to the Gulf Arab countries, but that’s not my problem, or America’s problem. Gas projected to rise to $4 a gallon is America’s problem.
You need to learn doublethink: Iran’s nuclear capabilities WERE destroyed last year, AND yet (somehow?) Iran was on the brink of building a nuclear bomb just a few weeks ago. The war propaganda we’re hearing asserts that both of these statements are simultaneously true.
THey were rebuilding. The idea was for them to stop.
I think D+90 is just about baked in at this point.
Israel and its propaganda mouthpieces have spent the past three decades saying that Iran is just weeks away from nuclear-tipped ICBMs, combined with hysteria over their tinpot dictators being "today's Hitlers". You'd think that after a while people would get sick of the Israeli boy crying wolf.
Biden killed that net producer thing.
Don’t be surprised if he doesn’t reply.
Just look at his posting history.
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