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Edward Markey: “Every American driver is going to pay $500 more in gasoline…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Senator Markey on CNN Explaining how Gas Prices will Continue to Soar Amid Iran War

Published | Video Starts at 01:16

And simultaneously, it shows the pressure that Trump and his White House are now feeling with the rise in the price of gasoline at the pump. Because at a buck a gallon, Every American driver is going to pay $500 more in gasoline prices at the pump this year. And by asking for $200 billion more for the war at $2 billion a day for the war, that means he intends to keep the war going into the summer. (01:16–01:26)

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