{"id":47146,"date":"2026-03-08T19:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/the-us-secretary-of-energy-says-iran-is-not-a-war-but-a-temporary-movement-and-that-gas-prices-will-go-down-in-weeks\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T19:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:11:22","slug":"the-us-secretary-of-energy-says-iran-is-not-a-war-but-a-temporary-movement-and-that-gas-prices-will-go-down-in-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/the-us-secretary-of-energy-says-iran-is-not-a-war-but-a-temporary-movement-and-that-gas-prices-will-go-down-in-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"The US secretary of energy says Iran is not a war but a &#8216;temporary movement&#8217; and that gas prices will go down in weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69ad9e13d3e2f1aef36a32d1?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Energy Secretary Chris Wright\"\/><figcaption>US Energy Secretary Chris Wright.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Blackwell \/ POOL \/ AFP<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The US energy secretary is working to reassure Americans that high gas prices won&#039;t last.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Wright said the conflict in Iran is a &quot;temporary movement,&quot; rather than a &quot;long-term war.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>He said gas prices could go down &quot;in weeks.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US Energy Secretary Chris Wright made the morning show rounds on Sunday to downplay concerns about surging gas and oil prices, assuring Americans that the war with Iran isn&#039;t &quot;long-term.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What you are seeing is emotional reactions and fear that this is a long-term war,&quot; Wright told &quot;Face the Nation&quot; on CBS News. &quot;This is not a long-term war. This is a temporary movement.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Wright made similar remarks in an interview with Fox News Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The run-up on prices doesn&#039;t have anything to do with any shortage of barrels of oil or natural gas. It&#039;s just fear and perception, the unknown that this could be some long, drawn-out crisis, but it won&#039;t be,&quot; Wright said.<\/p>\n<p>After the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran on February 28, the Islamic Republic moved quickly to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway critical to the movement of oil around the world. About 20% of the globe&#039;s petroleum liquids pass through the Strait.<\/p>\n<p>Although there are storage tanks across the Gulf, they are already nearing capacity after a week of conflict and limited shipping options, forcing producers to reduce operations. Iraq&#039;s oil output has shrunk by 60% since last week, Bloomberg reported. Other countries, like Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, have also reduced output.<\/p>\n<p>All of this means higher gas prices for Americans. The US Energy Information Administration says gas prices averaged $2.93 on February 23. By March 2, they were at $3.15. On Sunday, they were $3.40.<\/p>\n<p>During his media tour on Sunday, Wright said regular ship traffic through the Strait of Hurmoz could resume in &quot;a few weeks,&quot; meaning gas prices could ease sooner rather than later. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;We want it back below $3 a gallon, and it will be again before too long,&quot; Wright told CNN&#039;s &quot;State of the Union.&quot; &quot;You never know exactly the timeframe of this, but, in the worst case, this is a weeks, this is not a months, thing.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Rebecca Blackwell \/ POOL \/ AFP The US energy secretary is working to reassure Americans that high gas prices won&#039;t last. Chris Wright said the conflict in Iran is a &quot;temporary movement,&quot; rather than a &quot;long-term war.&quot; He said gas prices could go down &quot;in weeks.&quot; US Energy Secretary Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}