Trump points to Ukrainian attacks on refineries as the reason for high gasoline prices

What's driving up gasoline prices is no longer the Strait of Hormuz, as record barrels are now appearing almost every day, but the word "refineries," where Russian refineries are being blown up by Ukraine and ours are being shut down in democratic states like California, Donald Trump wrote in a post on the Truth Social platform.

This is another statement by the US president in which he points to Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries as the source of high fuel prices. Trump demanded that Ukraine stop such actions. Ukraine has expressed its readiness to do so if Russia stops attacks on its energy infrastructure.

Data from Kpler show that the oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz has returned to the level before the war with Iran and amounts to 13.5 million barrels per day. At the same time, the volume of refined products decreased to 677 thousand. barrels per day from 3.6 million before the conflict. In addition, prices of oil exported by Hormuz are higher due to higher costs of insurance and transferring oil from ship to ship as a result of Iranian attacks.