Local Gas Prices: Higher Costs Result of Epic U.S. Blunder

Analysts: Worst Foreign Policy Decision in U.S. History

Roseville, Calif. – Gas prices are moving down, yet remain up about 55 percent from January lows of $3.29 in Roseville. More pain may be on the way before shortages are refilled.

Most experts and analysts—outside of popular cable “news” shows that parrot and cheerlead administration misinformation at the expense of their audience —view the war as an overwhelming strategic defeat. The war has accumulated significant financial cost to U.S. taxpayers and at the cost of American servicemen’s lives, hundreds of casualties and billions in destruction to numerous American military bases and equipment.

Abject Failure

Despite massive damage inflicted across Iran, the United States failed to achieve every single stated war aim which includes unconditional surrender, regime change, no ballistic missiles, cease support for proxies, and no nuclear enrichment. Experts believe the U.S. decision to go to war is a colossal blunder that is turning Iran into a leading world power. Iran has asserted control of the Strait of Hormuz and can effectively shut it down at will. The U.S. Navy, the world’s most capable is unable to assert freedom of navigation.

The extremely unpopular and unprovoked war delivered little more than death, chaos, and worldwide economic pain. Analysts view the war as weakening of the American Empire as it works to protect its decaying hegemony in a multipolar world. Others posit that Israel has finally found a U.S. administration it was able to manipulate into war against Iran. Israel has been proclaiming Iran as being close to a nuclear bomb for decades. Prior to the war, U.S. intelligence agencies refuted those claims along with any imminent threats.

Local Impacts

Locally, Roseville consistently remains the low price leader in South Placer while Rocklin and Lincoln residents consistently pay higher energy costs across the board.

The lowest gas prices in South Placer are reliably found in Roseville. Typically, Costco and Sam’s Club which have remained consistent over the years with occasional exceptions and short term price wars. California imports a significant amount of its oil from the Middle East with Iraq accounting for 21 percent.