Susie Wiles sounds the alarm on gas prices
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about the other energy costs. |
| 0:02.5 | Susie Wiles, the chief of staff for Donald Trump, sounding the alarm on gas prices, you don't think. |
| 0:09.4 | Donald Trump, he acknowledged that energy prices, especially gasoline, have risen as a result of the conflict with Iran. |
| 0:19.0 | So what was the number? |
| 0:23.1 | Okay, so we've been tracking this every day. |
| 0:29.5 | In the last 24 hours, the average price for gas, now this is statewide in the entire state of Indiana, has gone up nine cents. It went from 318 to 327, but this is the big thing since a week |
| 0:35.4 | ago, because a week ago, thean conflict hadn't started yet a week |
| 0:38.8 | ago gas prices were 282 on average in the state of indiana today they're 327 that's that's a 45 |
| 0:45.5 | cent per gallon jump in gas prices you know in a week so we went from 282 to 327 to 327 and this is |
| 0:53.5 | going to continue to be a problem just like we talked about with our electric bills, everybody has to pay this every single time and every month. And in the case of gas prices, usually most people fill up at least once a week, if not more than that. That is a direct impact to people in this country and certainly people in the state. And people like Trump are not going to be able to get away from that. |
| 1:13.0 | They're going to have to have an answer for it at some point. |
| 1:15.6 | Recently, Donald Trump, he said he's not overly worried about the rising costs of gas for |
| 1:19.8 | Americans. |
| 1:20.4 | He said the military operation is more important. |
| 1:23.2 | And he said, if they rise, they rise. |
| 1:26.0 | Also, he has ruled out tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for now. He said, if they rise, they rise. Also, he has ruled out tapping the strategic petroleum reserve for now. |
| 1:31.5 | He says it believes that the Strait of Hermuz will remain open to shipping. |
| 1:35.4 | And on that, I will give Trump 100% credit on that. |
| 1:38.4 | I agree with Trump. |
| 1:39.3 | We should not use the strategic oil reserves to just lower gas prices. |
| 1:43.8 | Those are there for other reasons for |
| 1:46.5 | massive supply chokes. We haven't quite seen that yet. A lot of other presidents have opened up |
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