Is Trump's real reason for starting this war to push up the price of US oil?

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Knowing everything you do about the man, would you put it past him?

The cost of oil everywhere. The world doesn't revolve around the US.

He only does things that enrich him and his coterie. Nothing else matters.

Nope. It's to distract from the Epstein files.

Trump campaigned on getting gas prices down. So him deliberately trying to increase them seems odd. Unless the fickle fuckwit has changed his mind again

Pushing the price of oil up elsewhere is a good way of getting other countries to fall in line with the requirements of the US. You want our oil? You do as we say.
www.businessinsider.com/trump-energy-dominance-oil-iran-venezuela-2026-2

Like a PP said, deliberately pushing up oil prices when the price of a gallon of gas at the pump is the ONE thing every American voter will notice immediately does seem a strange approach.

I fear that it's as simple as the fact he's been goaded into it. He fancies himself as a strongman dictator, and this is basically willy-waving.

I can't recall the details but it seems there was a LOT of insider betting on the timing of the strikes on Iran. Another Trumpian bonus.

@randomchap He also campaigned on releasing the Epstein files. Remind me, how's that going?

The US is pretty much self sufficient in oil. There are technicalities that mean it still imports a fair bit, and sure it will be somewhat affected by increased prices.

But focus on oil supplies as the sole motivation US foreign policy is a bit of a red herring and a bit last century - the late 1900s will probably soon be asking for their geo-political strategists back.

Yep, he's a fickle bastard who will say anything he can to get power.

Could he not keep gas prices down in the US but apply massive surcharges, tariffs and blackmail tactics to other countries though?

No I don't think so, the oil price rise will really benefit Russia if the Iran war continues.

It’s certainly not about the people of Iran. Listening to Hegseths speech and it’s all, without exception, about military power.
the Iranian people are last on the list, a fortunate by product of their proxy war.
it should be damned at the highest level.
obviously their leader was taken out which can only be a good thing, but the American actions have no way secured peace for the people.
Its a ‘don’t look there, look here’ exercise

Any one who thinks this is in any way a humanitarian war needs to be given a wake up call.
We only have to look at the two main players in this.

Yeah, but Europe isn't. The US has its own oil and now it has Venezuela's too.

Europe won’t buy Russian oil and can’t get Middle Eastern oil. We're screwed.

TRIP mentioned the film Wag the Dog yesterday. Here is the synopsis for that film - The president of the US is caught in a sex scandal a few days before the elections. To avoid media outburst and public outrage, Conrad Bean, his aide, constructs a fake war against Albania.

No - it's to distract from the Epstein files (rumors flying around DC very openly that there's video testimony of him having raped a 13yo girl), to flex his legacy-building muscles before the midterms (he's building a narrative that Iran interfered in the 2020 election and is hoping to call a state of emergency to federalize voting in November), because Netanyahu has got him by the balls which doesn't help him advance his plans for Trump-enrichment in Gaza Plaza Resort, because he wants to not be the only Republican president in almost a century not to start a "war" in the Middle East....and so on and so forth. The price of oil will rise which will benefit him and his cronies (obviously - everything he does is for this reason alone) but hurt his Maga base, so this isn't why.

well as @drivinmecrazy says it’s certainly not because Trump feels huge empathy (he has zero empathy) for the Iranian people. Trump only cares about himself, money, and power. He cares protecting his self interests, he will do whatever it takes.

It's fascinating that he's got the means to locate and assassinate several Iranian leaders but yet not deal with one of the crimes mentioned in the Epstien Files. Funny that.

It's not self sufficient in oil though. Different oil for different things. US oil is not cost effective for many products they need. They have light crude, and they also need heavy crude.