View: Gas on the ballot in US elections
Semafor · Tim McDonnell ·
Today’s US election is a test of how much voters will want to punish the president for soaring gasoline and power prices.
Tim’s view
Today’s US election is a test of how much voters will want to punish the president for soaring gasoline and power prices.
Energy costs are always an important factor in elections; gas prices are the only economic indicator displayed in big bold numbers at major intersections. But between the war in Iran and the data center power rush, there’s rarely been an election in which energy prices — and the policy decisions pushing them up, from the White House to local zoning boards — are so much in the headlines.