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The average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. has hit $4 a gallon.

Oil is selling for more than $100 a barrel, and it doesn't look like it'll decline anytime soon.

The Strait of Hormuz is effectively still closed, save for the shipping companies that are willing to pay Iran several million dollars per vessel for safe passage.

The global energy shock is so intense right now that in Asia, several nations are rolling out four-day work weeks or work-from-home policies or even curtailing school hours to deal with the war-induced fuel crisis.

And back in the United States, President Trump's popularity has sunk to an all-time low with an approval rating clinging on to 36%.

And yet last night, in an address to the nation, the president said that

against Iran, there is so much winning. In these past four weeks, our armed forces have

delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on the battlefield. Victories like few people have ever seen before.

Tonight, Iran's Navy is gone.

Their air forces in ruins.

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