governorswindenergycoalition.org: https://governorswindenergycoalition.org/war-driven-gas-spike-puts-pressure-on-summer-travelers-and-republicans/

Speaker: —
Subject: E000300
Source: GDELT news · original
Published: Tuesday, May 26, 2026

War-driven gas spike puts pressure on summer travelers — and Republicans - Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Governors' Wind Energy Coalition About Members Coalition Members Affiliate Members Publications & Resources Letters & Presentations June 19, 2015 Presentations News Contact Home » News » War-driven gas spike puts pressure on summer travelers — and Republicans War-driven gas spike puts pressure on summer travelers — and Republicans Source: By James Bikales, MIKE SORAGHAN • Posted: Monday, May 25, 2026 Memorial Day marks the start of summer driving season, with added political angst this year for President Donald Trump’s party. Gas prices above $6 per gallon are displayed at Chevron and Shell stations in Mont

Full text

3,000 chars

War-driven gas spike puts pressure on summer travelers — and Republicans - Governors&#039; Wind Energy Coalition Governors&#039; Wind Energy Coalition Governors&#039; Wind Energy Coalition About Members Coalition Members Affiliate Members Publications &#038; Resources Letters &#038; Presentations June 19, 2015 Presentations News Contact Home &raquo; News &raquo; War-driven gas spike puts pressure on summer travelers — and Republicans War-driven gas spike puts pressure on summer travelers — and Republicans Source: By James Bikales, MIKE SORAGHAN &#8226; Posted: Monday, May 25, 2026 Memorial Day marks the start of summer driving season, with added political angst this year for President Donald Trump’s party. Gas prices above $6 per gallon are displayed at Chevron and Shell stations in Monterey Park, California, on April 30. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina — The spike in gas prices is a national political calamity for the White House — but it’s also a local political challenge in every state of the union as Americans hit the road for the busiest travel season of the year. While the Trump administration is focused on $5.02 — the per-gallon high-water mark hit under the Biden administration in 2022 as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine snarled energy supplies — gas prices in many states are nearing or have already eclipsed that level. Stumping in a Winston-Salem restaurant on Thursday, former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper wrapped the price at the pump into a larger affordability message on what he calls his “Make Stuff Cost Less” tour in his campaign for U.S. Senate. “I think there are a lot of potential solutions” to rising costs, he said. “But I think that the war in Iran is affecting us most of all.” Outside, waiting for the restaurant to open, LeTrice Stephens, a 44-year-old certified nursing assistant, said the price of gas — a full tank now costs her $70 instead of $50 — has her staying in more. “I go home and to work,” she said. “That’s all I can take right now.” The average pump price in every state ticked above $4 a gallon on Wednesday, according to American Automobile Association data, with the national average now at its highest mark this year at $4.56. The state of Washington has already set an all-time record, at $5.79, and several other Western states are approaching new peaks as the primary cause of the spikes — Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz — shows no sign of abating. “With everything going on in the world, everything going on in the country, there is only one thing that Alaskans are talking about, and that is the prices that they are seeing in their communities as a consequence of higher fuel prices,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told reporters on Tuesday. The average price of gasoline in her state was $5.27 a gallon on Thursday. The fuel crisis is especially acute in rural Alaskan communities that are receiving their first fuel barges of the year, which locks in the high prices for months ahe

More on this subject (8)

Mentioned in /ask threads

pac.dog is a free, independent, non-partisan research tool. Every candidate, committee, bill, vote, member, and nonprofit on this site is mirrored from primary U.S. government sources (FEC, congress.gov, govinfo.gov, IRS) and each state's Secretary of State / election commission — no third-party data vendors, no paywall, no editorial intermediation. Citations to the originating source are on every detail page.