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On Thursday, the White House X account posted a boast that fell flat with respondents and drew a particularly scalding burn from a prominent conservative. <\/p>\n

Read more Trump supporter hits the boiling point while defending president\u2019s intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOil is flowing and gas prices have begun tumbling down,\u201d posted the White House. \u201cNow below $4 per gallon nationally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the arsonist putting out fires files,\u201d replied Gregg Nunziata<\/u>, a former staffer for the likes of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Senator John Thune (R-SD) and Executive Director for the conservative Society for the Rule of Law. <\/p>\n

Nunziata is referring to the fact that gas prices had only surged in the first place because of President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to launch war with Iran, peaking at a national average of around $5 per gallon \u2014 the highest in four years. And while the Trump administration is bragging that prices have begun to creep down, experts warn that the high prices could persist for months before the country sees a significant and lasting reduction at the pumps. <\/p>\n

\u201cEven as gas prices start to decline, it is anticipated to take weeks or months for oil to start flowing through the Strait of Hormuz again,\u201d explains PBS<\/u>. \u201cBefore the war, the strait carried a fifth of the world’s crude oil. Now, it will take time for hundreds of ships trapped in the Persian Gulf to exit through the narrow strait. And Gulf oil producers that throttled back production will need time to get the oil moving again. Analysts also say ship captains may take their time to decide if passage is safe and that the threat of attack from Iran has truly receded. In addition, refineries typically pay for crude oil a month or more in advance, so even after oil prices drop, they won’t immediately be processing cheaper products.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, as the New York Times notes, there may also be domestic pressures that keep gas prices elevated. <\/p>\n

Read more GOP Senate chair stuns with analysis: Trump deal is worse than Obama\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cEnergy analysts refer to the swing of prices as \u2018up like a rocket, down like a feather\u2019 \u2014 a phenomenon that means gasoline costs quickly rise alongside the price of crude oil but are slow to follow its descent,\u201d explains the Times. \u201cOne of the main reasons is that gas station owners tend to lose money or make only small profits when prices are shooting up because they are not able to raise prices fast enough to make up for soaring costs. So when wholesale prices start to go down, station owners are slow to bring retail prices down to make up for their poor financial performance on the way up.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the response to the White House\u2019s post suggests that, like Nunziata, many Americans see through the administration\u2019s attempt to spin the situation as a win. <\/p>\n

\u201cAll it cost us tax cattle was $29 billion in military expenses, $100 billion in negative impacts to consumers, and 70 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Oil Reserves,\u201d noted one respondent<\/u>. \u201cAll just to end up with the same situation as we had before. Great work everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd all we had to do was sign a surrender agreement and create a $300 billion reparations fund,\u201d noted Huffpost correspondent S.V. Date<\/u>. \u201cAlternatively he could have stayed in the JCPOA, which Iran was abiding by.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe collective cringe to this attempted spin is overwhelming,\u201d asserted Jim Stewartson<\/u>, who writes about the impacts of psychological war on democracy. <\/p>\n

Read more Pathologist warns of Trump\u2019s \u2018observable signs\u2019 of rapid \u2018severe decline\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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