Ep. 18 - Why the Iran War Is Raising Your Gas Prices | Everyone Knows

A month before the war with Iran, gas was under three dollars a gallon. Today it's over three-seventy — and the reason is a strait twenty-two miles wide that most people couldn't find on a map.

Why the Iran War Is Raising Your Gas Prices | Everyone Knows Ep. 18

Everyone Knows | Episode 18 | Starborne Studios

The war with Iran, Operation Epic Fury, started February 28th. On March 4th, Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz, the one narrow channel a fifth of the world's oil has to pass through, and turned the Persian Gulf into a war zone almost overnight. Three months later it's still closed, the strikes are back this week, and the cost has landed on your kitchen table. Brian Bullock walks the whole chain, one piece at a time, no spin and no panic, until you can explain exactly why you're paying more to anybody who asks.

Three parts. All of them matter.

FIRST — What happened. How years of pressure over Iran's nuclear program and missiles boiled over into open war on February 28th, why Iran closing one twenty-two-mile strait on March 4th was the move that reached your wallet, and where it stands now: oil up about sixty percent, gas over three-seventy, inflation back above four percent, and fresh U.S. strikes landing this week.

SECOND — Why it reaches you. The Strait of Hormuz is the only sea exit for the Gulf's oil, and when Iran shut it the chain reaction was brutal: insurers pulled out, tankers stopped sailing, producers cut eleven million barrels a day, and the world began draining its reserves toward twenty-year lows. Brian breaks down why "energy independence" doesn't earn you a discount at the pump, and how the same war shows up in your groceries, your power bill, and nearly everything you own made of plastic.

THIRD — And the last stretch is the one that hits closest to home. There's a simple piece of math that shows exactly what this is pulling out of your household every single month, a number most people never stop to run. There's one daily signal moving the oil price right now that almost nobody is watching, and once Brian points it out you'll check it every morning. And there are three things that decide whether this gets better or a whole lot worse. You'll want to hear this part.

This is the news without the theatrics, the hard truth laid out plain and what it actually means for you. If you're tired of the spin, you're in the right place.

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