… then by the afternoon it was well into the four dollar mark and here we are again with high four dollars a gallon, all within the span of a week. That's not gas that was sitting either in the tanks down in the ground gas station. It's not even that what was getting trucked in this week that is world speculation, obviously. Heizinger also talked about why that conflict calls into question who is in charge in Iran and makes it more difficult to secure the streets. (01:19–01:32)
CLAIM
Asserts that recent gas price increases are due to global market speculation, not local supply issues.
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