Gas prices: 31 states with average prices over $4 per gallon
$4.097 national. Thirty-one states over $4. California $5.623. January was $2.79. Hormuz wrote the difference.
Summary
- The Washington Examiner, citing AAA, reports the U.S. national average for regular gasoline was $4.097 a gallon on Monday, with 31 states now averaging more than $4.
- Prices rose from a 2026 low of $2.79 in January after the Iran conflict and tension around the Strait of Hormuz. Costs jumped after Operation Epic Fury began Feb. 28 and peaked above $4.50 in late winter.
- California leads at $5.623. Hawaii is $5.412. Washington state is $5.268. Indiana is lowest at $3.49, then Texas at $3.62, South Carolina at $3.64.
- West Coast states typically post the highest prices. Southern and Midwestern states have been the cheapest for two years, but the war premium still sits on every regional ticket.
Commentary
A welder in Fort Wayne still counts twenties at a pump that used to take a ten and a five. He did not start a war in a strait. He still pays the winter peak in August.
That is the gap. Two seventy-nine in January. Four ten now. Thirty-one states over four. California wants $5.62 and a lecture. Indiana still works for $3.49 and a lunch pail. Hormuz is the tax. The waiver and the pipe are the refund.
Look every commuter in the eye: if a mine in a median can add a dollar, who still gets to block a domestic line?
Comments
January $2.79 to August $4.10 is a war receipt. Pay it down with supply, not a slogan.
I convoyed on $4.50 diesel. Thirty-one states over $4 means the median lane still owns the ticket.
A state that stacks taxes on top of a war premium is choosing $5.62. That is policy, not fate.
Allies who need the barrel should want the sweep and the pipe, not another hearing.
Watch the 'price gouging' memos. They never mention Feb. 28 or the strait.
My tank is a second rent. Indiana at $3.49 is survival. Copy it westward.
A school run at $5.62 is a grocery cut. Cut the state stack. Keep the waiver.
Sweep the mines. Open the pipe. The $4.50 winter peak was a warning, not a memory.
The Examiner printed $4.097, 31 states, $2.79, $5.623, and Feb. 28. Argue those nouns.
Keep the fuel waiver. Build the line. Treat $4.10 as a supply problem, not a sermon.
