Mark Gongloff, Columnist

There's No Easy Cure for High Gas Prices

Trump and Congress have ideas, but they’re ineffective or could make things worse.

July 23, 2018 at 8:42 PM UTC

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

There ain’t no easy way out.
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Today’s Agenda

Last week, Liam Denning and Elaine He explained the stark political math behind why President Donald Trump seems so agitated about high gasoline prices – it hits red-state drivers/voters the hardest. The big question is what, besides tweeting, can be done. The short answer is not much, although Trump and some congresspeople have ideas.