{"id":3537,"date":"2026-06-24T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikhailinvest.com\/trump-orders-gas-price-gouging-probe\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:30:00","slug":"trump-orders-gas-price-gouging-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikhailinvest.com\/ru\/trump-orders-gas-price-gouging-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Orders Gas Price Gouging Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump has ordered an investigation into possible price gouging at fuel stations, an investigation he announced in a social media post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil. Those prices are dropping \u200clike a rock! In other words, customers are being “gouged”,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have instructed the DOJ to immediately start looking into this. Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I\u2019m seeing!\u201d the U.S. president also wrote.<\/p>\n

Gasoline prices in the United States have been declining for six weeks in a row amid the renewed push to settle the conflict between the U.S. and Israel, and Iran diplomatically. According to a Reuters \u043e\u0442\u0447\u0435\u0442<\/a> from earlier this week, the national average for a gallon of regular fell by $0.141 last week, to $3.85 as of Monday, based on GasBuddy data.<\/p>\n

The price slide reflected a decline in crude oil prices as traders assumed the negotiations between Washington and Tehran would result in a swift reversal of the tanker traffic paralysis in the Strait of Hormuz. The assumption has been supported by multiple reports about tankers traversing the strait without any interference from Iranian forces.<\/p>\n

International benchmarks have dropped to the lowest in four months on these reports, with \u041d\u0435\u0444\u0442\u044c \u043c\u0430\u0440\u043a\u0438 Brent<\/a> trading at $76.46 per barrel at the time of writing, and \u0417\u0430\u043f\u0430\u0434\u043d\u043e-\u0422\u0435\u0445\u0430\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u043f\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0435\u0436\u0443\u0442\u043e\u0447\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0448\u043a\u043e\u043b\u0430<\/a> at $72.61 per barrel.<\/p>\n

\u201cPositive signals from the Persian Gulf are fuelling optimism about oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Vessel crossings increased in recent days, although they remain well below pre-war levels,\u201d ING commodity analysts wrote in a note earlier today.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrude oil prices were weighed down by hopes of easing U.S.-Iran tensions and a recovery in oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d a Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting senior analyst said, as \u0446\u0438\u0442.<\/a> \u041f\u043e \u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044e \u0430\u0433\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0430 Reuters.<\/p>\n

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