Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) wants to see an end to the war in the Middle East as gas prices and jet fuel costs continue to surge amid escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran.

Trump’s War Is Creating Chaos

On Thursday, the Senator took to the social media platform X to criticise President Donald Trump and his handling of the Iran war.

“Gas prices have spiked by 30%,” Warren said in the post. She also shared that fertilizer prices “jumped by 30-40%” and lamented the surge in jet fuel costs, which were “up 60%” since the war began.

“Trump's war is creating economic chaos and increasing prices. We must end Trump's war,” she said in the post, slamming the administration for the surge in costs of essential goods.

What Do The Numbers Say?

Gas prices have been surging at the pump, with data from the American Automobile Association (AAA) on Thursday suggesting that the national average price for a gallon of gasoline rose from $2.983 to $3.981 in a month’s time, which demonstrates an approximately 33% increase.

Jet fuel costs have surged as well, with data from Airlines For America on Thursday illustrating that jet fuel currently costs over $4.24/gallon, up approximately 69% from $2.50/gallon on February 27, before the ballistic missile strike on Iran through a joint U.S.-Israeli operation that resulted in the death of Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Rising jet fuel costs have raised concerns among aviation industry stakeholders, with United Airlines Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:UAL) CEO Scott Kirby sharing that air fares could rise amid the partial government shutdown and the surging jet fuel costs due to the situation in the Middle East.

Iran War Updates

Israel has claimed that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy commander, Alireza Tangsiri, was killed in an Israeli missile strike. Meanwhile, the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Jassim Mohammed Al-Budaiwi, stressed the need for diplomatic solutions to the ongoing situation in the region.

Trump, on the other hand, claimed that former President Joe Biden‘s Secretary of State Antony Blinken endorsed his attacks on Iran, a claim that was refuted by Blinken.

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