John Bickley

And that will trigger a new phase that would hopefully include the rise of a better government with support from the Iranian people.

Well, hopefully so, and hopefully sooner rather than later.

Tim, thanks for joining us.

Global oil prices surge as the disruption in energy production and distribution from the Iran operation continues to snowball.

Joining us now to discuss is Victoria Coates, a foreign policy expert at Heritage Foundation and the former senior advisor to the U.S.

Secretary of Energy.

Victoria, thank you so much for coming on.

Of course.

Happy to.

So let's start here at home.

We've seen gas prices rise dramatically in the last few days.

I know I have personally.

What should Americans be bracing for?

How high will prices go?

Well, this is obviously a very strong concern, and it's not lost on anyone in the White House, including President Trump, that the American midterms are coming and that gas prices over the summer are going to be a major issue.

So they have every incentive in the world to

bring this conflict to a close as soon as they, you know, efficiently can.

And I think you'll see those prices start to come down actually quite quickly because there's a glut of oil on the water that can't move.

The minute the strait is opened, that oil can start moving.

And we also have this additional capacity in terms of pipelines that we've been using as a stopgap