Americans’ concerns about energy costs have not increased since the start of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, even as gas prices have jumped nearly a dollar a gallon, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday.
Thirty-five percent of U.S. adults say they worry “a great deal” about the availability and affordability of energy, unchanged from a year ago and well below the 47 percent who said the same in 2022, when gas prices last spiked during the early months of the Russia-Ukraine war.
The poll, conducted March 2–18 among 1,000 adults, began just two days after the Feb. 28 strikes the U.S. and Israel launched on Iran. Since then, Iran has blocked access to the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping channel for global oil transport, sending fuel costs sharply higher across the country.