Chevron’s CEO has warned that he isn’t sure how high gas prices could get as Donald Trump continues to try to bring an end to the two-month-long Iran war. Mike Wirth was interviewed on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday and said that the war had exposed the relative futility of some measures taken to avert price shocks for consumers while warning that gas prices were not done rising, at least for now. Gas prices are nationally averaged at $4.46 for a gallon of low-grade fuel. Wirth said it was “very hard to say” that gas prices had peaked, as some administration officials have hurriedly insisted over the past month. Now, negotiations over a ceasefire deal have collapsed and Iran’s grip over the Strait of Hormuz has so far proved impossible for the U.S. to shake loose.
Not for them though. They’re making record profits.
For now. These prices are already forcing people to look at evs or alternative modes of transport. If it goes on long enough things could reach a tipping point that collapses their industry. Like a star going supernova before collapsing into a dwarf.
I think the Chevron CEO is feigning concerns so that oil companies won’t get a bad PR. Everyone knows they got record profits because there is talk of windfall tax after all.