Oil prices are still low yet gas has gone up 20-cents per gallon in the last 2 days. Middle east wars directly effect gas prices at the pump. You can thank Israel's new middle east war for the latest hike as this article mentions.

New York Times:

Oil prices are up about 25 percent in the last week alone, in part because of the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza

Now gas prices fell despite OPEC's last cut, and demand has not changed much, so that leaves the market fears of the impact of another Israeli war (as with Lebanon couple years ago), and war-mongering talk, all supported by AIPAC-controlled U.S. Congress and both incoming and going U.S. Presidents.

This is not what the U.S. economy needs, and is the fruits of another unjust war! Just when we were beginning to economically breathe on "main street" more wars come to change all of that. Demand Cha