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The answer is hiding in plain sight but nobody is looking or asking the right questions.

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The cost of gasoline just jumped overnight from $3.89 a gallon to $4.28 a gallon in my state of residence (Georgia) and everyone among the ignorant masses is wondering why. Gas prices in Georgia were sitting at around $2.25 a gallon before the Iran war started on Feb. 28, so that’s a near doubling of the cost of travel in just a six-week timeframe.

When you tell them that it’s Trump’s war against Iran driving gas prices up, people look shocked. I thought that war was over and Trump said we won, some will say.

No, I explain, we still have dueling blockades of the Strait of Hormuz by both Trump and the Iranians, preventing critical petroleum products from getting to market.

And by the way, i…