特朗普总统在试图在中期选举前降低飙升的油价时，正遭遇其影响力的限制。他在全国各地的社交媒体帖子和竞选演讲中，试图向选民保证油价——美国人面临的负担能力危机的一个主要痛点——很快就会下降。例如，周五在白宫，特朗普回忆起在美国和以色列于2月对伊朗发动突袭之前，他在爱荷华州看到的油价曾低于每加仑2美元。
President Donald Trump is running into the limits of his influence as he seeks to bring down sky-high gas prices ahead of the midterm elections. In social media posts and stump speeches across the country, Trump has sought to assure voters that gas prices — a major sticking point for Americans grappling with an affordability crisis — will soon go down. At the White House on Friday, for instance, Trump recalled seeing gas prices below $2 a gallon in Iowa before the US and Israel launched surprise strikes on Iran in February.
他说：“我们很快就会降到那个水平。”然而，全球冲突的数字和趋势却预示着不同的故事。截至周日，AAA报告称，美国普通汽油的平均价格为每加仑4.36美元。去年同期，这一数字为3.09美元。柴油价格也飙升，本月早些时候达到每加仑6.28美元。特朗普本周暂停了对俄罗斯的燃料出口制裁，以向市场投放更多柴油并降低价格，这一举动让盟友和对手都皱起了眉头。
"We'll be down to those levels soon," he said. The numbers and the trajectory of conflicts around the world, however, portend a different story. As of Sunday, AAA reported that the average price of regular gas in the US was $4.36 per gallon. At this time last year, that number was $3.09. Diesel prices have also skyrocketed, reaching $6.28 per gallon earlier this month. Trump suspended fuel export sanctions on Russia this week to bring more diesel to the market and lower prices, prompting allies and enemies alike to wrinkle an eyebrow.
几小时后，乌克兰袭击了一个俄罗斯油库。周日早上，特朗普再次试图平静油市，在Truth Social上宣布俄罗斯和乌克兰之间达成“能源停火”。然而，乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基在X上表示，虽然他支持这样的停火，但该协议对他来说是新闻。他补充说，周日一架俄罗斯无人机袭击了基辅的一座发电站。与此同时，周六在霍尔木兹海峡——由于伊朗对这条关键水道的控制，油轮运输已减缓到几乎停滞——这是油价上涨和油价飙升的一个主要原因——一艘油轮触雷并起火。
Hours later, Ukraine struck a Russian oil depot. On Sunday morning, Trump tried again to calm oil markets, announcing an "ENERGY CEASEFIRE" between Russia and Ukraine on Truth Social. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X, however, that while he supports such a ceasefire, the deal was news to him. He added that a Russian drone struck a power plant in Kyiv on Sunday. Meanwhile, on Saturday in the Strait of Hormuz, through which oil shipments have slowed to a trickle as Iran flexes its control of the key waterway — a big reason the price of oil has increased and gas prices have spiked — an oil tanker struck a mine and caught on fire.
美以对伊朗的战争正在扩大，因为伊朗的盟友正针对沙特阿拉伯——一个美国盟友——及其油气基础设施发动袭击。
The US-Israeli war on Iran is only expanding as Iranian allies target Saudi Arabia, a US ally, and its oil infrastructure.
伊朗支持的也门胡塞武装已扩大其对红海和曼德海峡沿岸地区的控制，该地区是沙特阿拉伯石油出口的关键航运通道。上个月，该组织从伊拉克东南部发动了对沙特阿拉伯一条主要石油管道的袭击，迫使沙特阿拉伯临时关闭该管道。周六，胡塞武装分子对哈立德国王国际机场发动袭击，造成12人死亡，300多人受伤。美国国务卿马尔科·卢比奥表示，一名美国人在此次袭击中遇难，官员们被迫短暂关闭机场。
Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have expanded their control of the coast bordering the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key shipping lane for Saudi oil exports. And last month, the group orchestrated an attack from southeastern Iraq on a major Saudi oil pipeline, forcing Saudi Arabia to temporarily shut it down. An attack on King Khalid International Airport by Houthi fighters on Saturday killed 12 people and injured over 300. One American was killed, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, and officials were forced to briefly close the airport.
按照目前的态势发展，很难想象油价会在11月美国人前往投票站之前足够下降，以缓解美国民众的高油价负担。
At this rate, it's hard to imagine oil prices softening enough to relieve Americans of high gas prices by the time they head to the polls in November.