Why Gas Prices Just Keep Going Up

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<p>About a month into the war with Iran, we spoke with Cameron Joudi, who owns a gas station in Florida, about how the conflict was reaching him at home. He recently reached out after seeing a 20-cent spike in gas prices in the span of just 24 hours.</p><p>Vivian Nereim, the Gulf bureau chief for The New York Times, tries to answer Mr. Joudi’s question: What’s driving rising oil prices?</p><p>Guest:</p><ul><li><strong>Cameron Joudi</strong>, the owner of a gas station in Florida.</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/vivian-nereim" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Vivian Nereim</strong></a>, the Gulf bureau chief for The New York Times.</li></ul><p>Background reading:&nbsp;</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/podcasts/the-daily/iran-war-florida-gas-station-prices.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Listen to the interview</a> with Mr. Joudi from March.</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/business/energy-environment/trump-diesel-russia-ukraine-iran.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">What’s driving up diesel prices</a>? Energy chaos caused by two wars.</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/world/middleeast/gulf-us-iran-uae-bahrain-saudi-arabia.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gulf Arab states explore new options</a> as U.S. bases fail to deter Iran.</li></ul><p>Photo: Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters</p><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit&nbsp;<a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>nytimes.com/thedaily</strong></a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.&nbsp;</p> <p><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily"><strong>nytimes.com/thedaily</strong></a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p><p> </p><p>Subscribe today at <a href="http://nytimes.com/podcasts">nytimes.com/podcasts</a> or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher">https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher</a>. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.</p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>