# What happens politically if gas prices go through the roof?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Tags:** trump, iran-strikes-2026\
**Created:** [March 2, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-politically-if-gas-prices-go-through-the-roof/1028133 "2026-03-02T14:48:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-politically-if-gas-prices-go-through-the-roof/1028133/18 "2026-03-02T16:03:52Z")

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> > [@wolfpup](#):
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> > No, I think it’s amazing how fast political allegiance slips away when it starts affecting the ol’ wallet.
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> _Points at MAGA response to COVID_
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> They don’t even care about their own lives; I wouldn’t assume that they care about their wallets all that much if they can blame “those people” and consider it the price for hurting everyone else.
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> What’s the line? Something like “America is full of millions of people who will be willingly reduced to living under a bridge eating a squirrel off a stick, if it means the people they hate don’t have a squirrel or a stick.”

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