Bessent has a warning for anyone helping Iran sell oil

You pay for wars you’ll never see. It usually shows up at the pump, a few cents at a time, long before it shows up in a headline. This fall, it isn’t a few cents. A year ago, the same gallon cost about $3. 12. This is the first year the national average has stayed above $4 in October, AAA noted in its Oct. 8 update. I ran that gap through a simple household budget. On a 15-gallon tank, you’re paying roughly $18. 77 more per fill-up than last October. Fill up once a week and that’s close to $976 a year, before you’ve bought a single bag of groceries.