Prețuri la benzină ating 4,39 dolari pe galon în cea mai mare creștere într-o zi de la anunțarea încetării focului în Iran

The national average gas price rose to a fresh wartime high of $4.39 per gallon in its biggest one-day jump since a ceasefire with Iran was announced on April 7. It was also the biggest one day jump since early March.On Thursday, gas prices jumped seven cents to $4.30, but overnight jumped an additional nine cents. Since the war started, the average price of gas has risen more than 47%.The steady rise for gas prices comes as crude oil extends its gain for the year to more than 80%. In early trading on Friday, U.S. crude oil traded around $103 per barrel and international benchmark Brent traded around $110 per barrel. This week, price pressures worsened as President Donald Trump said that he wants to maintain the blockade on Iranian ports, which the U.S. Navy has been enforcing since April 13. “Iran can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon, and their economy is crashing,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon. “The power of the blockade is incredible.”Casting fresh doubt on how fast the war can be ended, Trump added, “They’re not getting any money from oil, and hopefully it can be worked out very soon.””The gas will go down,” Trump remarked, adding. “as soon as the war is over, it’ll drop like a rock.”But experts do not believe that to be the case, and most believe that the price of oil will remain elevated for an extended period of time after the war ends given that Iran has showed that it can effectively halt ship traffic through the critical Strait of Hormuz.In parts of the Trump administration, however, the war has already ended.On Capitol Hill, members of Congress have been calling for a vote on a War Powers Resolution, as the Iran war crosses a 60 day threshold. The 1973 War Powers Resolution requires the president to get authorization from Congress in order to maintain military forces in a conflict for more than 60 days. In its 50 years, however, Congress has not actually used the law to require the removal of U.S. forces from a foreign conflict. “For War Powers Resolution purposes, the hostilities that began on Saturday, February 28 have terminated,” a senior administration official told NBC News on Thursday.House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., also said Thursday that it was not necessary for Congress to weigh in on the Trump administration’s military action in Iran because the United States is currently “not at war.”Markets disagree, and as of early Friday, U.S. crude oil was set to post a more than 8% jump for the week.As gas prices move higher, consumers in online communities are voicing more and more frustration. On Reddit’s r/Indiana, which represents a state that has seen nearly a $2 per gallon jump since the war began, more than 500 comments detail dissatisfaction of residents in the Hoosier state. Similar conversations is taking place this week in r/Pennsylvania, r/Iowa, and more locally, r/kzoo, which represents Kalamazoo, a city of about 80,000 in Western Michigan.Commodities analysts at Citigroup said on Friday