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The Daily

The View of the War From a Florida Gas Station

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.3107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

For the past four weeks, soaring gas prices across the United States have become a symbol of the domestic impact of the war in Iran. Cameron Joudi, who owns and manages a gas station in Jacksonville, Fla., discusses how the war is reaching him at home.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Can I give number four, please?

0:07.0

Yeah.

0:08.0

That's it, brother.

0:10.0

There you go, brother.

0:12.0

Can you just explain what it is you're about to do?

0:17.0

I'm going to raise the gas price.

0:20.0

From the New York Times, I'm Michael to raise the gas price.

0:23.9

From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro.

0:25.6

This is the Daily.

0:33.0

So we've got to go into the fuel manager menu and fuel price configuration.

0:34.8

All right.

0:39.7

I'm going to go from 449 on my premium to 469.

0:49.1

For the past four weeks, gas stations across the United States have become a kind of microcosm of the war's domestic impact.

0:52.5

It's there at thousands of pumps and cash registers that a test of wills is playing out in real

1:00.5

time.

1:01.4

I just got to download the fuel prices to my pumps, and that's that.

1:06.7

Price increased.

1:08.5

Between gas station managers deciding day after day just how much to charge for a

1:15.2

gallon of gas and already cash-strapped consumers deciding just how much pain they're willing to endure.

1:25.1

I mean, does any part of you just feel like really bad that you have to do that?

1:30.2

Yeah, yeah.

1:31.3

I feel bad.

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