Senator Bernie Sanders urged President Donald Trump to end the war with Iran, which he blamed for high energy prices, and to impose a windfall profits tax on big oil companies. In a post on X, Sanders said the average U.S. household had become $2,000 poorer due to the Iran War, while Big Oil had gained $125 billion this year. He was responding to Trump's claim that Texas, Oklahoma and North Dakota were making a fortune from high oil prices, and to Trump's insistence that energy prices would drop once the war ends. Earlier that week, data showed the annual U.S. inflation rate climbed to 3.7% in September, with energy prices up 20.4% year on year and fuel oil up 74.2%.
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