Economy & Business

Gas Prices and American Wallets: Who Pays for Brinkmanship?

The ceasefire sent Wall Street into a victory lap, but American families who spent five weeks paying war-premium gas prices will not see relief at the pump for weeks. The people who started this war are not the people who paid for it. Gas hit $5.80 a gallon in some states during the crisis. The profits went to oil companies. The costs went to everyone else.