In late September 2026, Michigan Representative Mike Rogers added his voice to a growing chorus of lawmakers urging a swift end to the Iran conflict — not through the language of geopolitics, but through the language of the gas pump. As fuel prices in Michigan reached their highest levels of the year and diesel set an all-time state record, Rogers gave public form to a quiet truth: that foreign wars are never truly distant when their costs arrive weekly at the filling station. The kitchen table, it seems, has become the new floor of foreign policy debate.