Trump says refinery losses in Russia and California, not Iran's Hormuz closure, now drive gas prices

On Truth Social, Trump wrote that refineries are the problem, "where Russia's are being blown up by Ukraine, and where ours are being closed up, in Blue States, like California, by the Dumocrats."

• AAA national average on Monday, Oct. 5: more than $4.36 a gallon, down from the $4.47 summer peak.
• Diesel averages $6.32 a gallon.