As American families marked the unofficial end of summer, the price of gasoline crossed $4 per gallon for the first time in Labor Day history — a threshold that transforms a holiday into a reckoning. The convergence of geopolitical strain around Iran and domestic refinery constraints squeezed supply precisely when the nation's roads were fullest, turning the ritual of the road trip into an arithmetic of sacrifice. What registers at the pump rarely stays there; it travels forward into the cost of goods, the shape of budgets, and the mood of a country entering autumn with no clear promise of rel
U.S. Gasoline Prices Hit Labor Day Record Amid Iran Tensions and Refinery Issues
Consumers across the U.S. face increased transportation and living costs due to record fuel prices.