Duffy To Travelers: Ignore That Fire Under Your Wallet
Trans Secretary Sean Duffy appeared on Fox to put the Orange syndicate's spin on the effect that spike jet fuel costs are having on air travel. Duffy, of course, lied through his teeth and pretended that it was all just a little momentary turbulence:
FOX HOST: So let's start here. The strait's closed, strait's open, strait is closed again.
Now, there's some bad news from Delta Airlines. There's this Bloomberg story that says the carrier's fuel prices have doubled in the past month. The quote is, "We have to find ways to get that cost passed through to consumers," Delta CEO Ed Bastian said. "It won't happen overnight."
Secretary Duffy, that's not good.
SEAN DUFFY: Well, so first off, a lot of the carriers are eating the cost increase of jet fuel right now. Good side is we have a great supply chains for jet fuel into the US. That's not always the story in the rest of the world because of Donald Trump's energy dominance initiatives that he started over a year ago.
But yes, listen, we're having a small spike in jet fuel. But, if you look in the out years, we think once this conflict is over, we're going to see jet fuel go lower than it was before the Iran conflict.
So yes, a small disruption, hopefully for a short period of time, but in the long run, it becomes cheaper for Americans to travel because of decreased jet fuel prices.