Earlier today, White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told CNBC that if Trump’s illegal war in Iran extended further, “it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much,” but admitted higher energy prices would hurt consumers, which he described as “really the last of our concerns right now." In response, Evergreen Action Executive Director Lena Moffitt released the following statement:

“Every single time there’s a war, gas prices spike—without exception. That’s what it means to be shackled to a volatile global commodity, and it’s yet another reason why fossil fuel dependency is always a bad deal for the American people. It should come as no surprise that this administration doesn’t care. After all, Trump’s energy agenda was never about cutting costs for working families—it was designed from the start to enrich Big Oil executives. And right now, the donors who bankrolled his campaign to the tune of $1 billion are giddy at the prospect of a long war that pads their profits while families pay more at the pump.

“And in the run-up to Trump’s illegal war, he went to every extreme to make sure Americans feel as much pain as possible. Since day one, he has doubled down on the expensive fossil fuels that leave American families exposed to exactly this kind of shock, while sabotaging tens of billions in clean energy investments—cheap, new power that could have insulated families from volatile global markets. That’s the alternative Trump is actively destroying. His reckless war is spiking gas prices, his Big Oil agenda guaranteed we’d be vulnerable when it did, and Trump isn’t concerned at all because your money is going right into his donors’ pockets.”

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