The Cost of War Means Pain at the Pump

The cost of war means pain at the pump

As the war in the Middle East continues, prices at the gas pump seem to keep climbing.

The price of war is posted at the pump

In the United States, the most visible measure of economic anxiety is not a government report or a Federal Reserve chart. It is the large number posted on the sign outside every gas station. When gasoline prices rise, Americans immediately sense that something in the economy has gone wrong. Today those signs are beginning to tell a familiar story, the growing cost of war.