Americans have spent more than $40bn extra on fuel since the start of Donald Trump’s war in Iran, according to new research, enough to repair the country’s bridge network or overhaul its air traffic control system.
Brown University’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs estimates the conflict’s hit to consumers from higher petrol and diesel prices was $41.5bn as of Sunday night — or $316 per US household.
“We are spending this huge amount of money as a country on extra fuel costs, which we could have used in a whole bunch of more constructive ways to improve America’s transportation infrastructure — which, frankly, could use the love,” said Jeff Colgan, a political-science professor at Brown.
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