AAA national gas price tops $4 amid renewed US strikes on Iran 75%

7/21/2026, 10:08:43 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Confirmation Bias, and Framing Effect, with Post Hoc (False Cause) as the most egregious example at 26.7% saturation with 107 hits. Analysis detected 793 faulty-reasoning hits from 401 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67.6% and a BS Rank of 75% (5,029 of 19,908 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.70% of the article peer group.

The AAA national average price for regular gas is back above $4 again amid the U.S. war with the Islamic Republic of Iran. 
As of July 21, the AAA national average for regular fuel is $4.019, up from yesterday's average of $4.003, the week-ago average of $3.859 and the month-ago average of $3.938. 
The year-ago average was much lower at just $3.141. 
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House on Tuesday. 
IRS RAISES BUSINESS MILEAGE DEDUCTION RATE AMID FUEL PRICE SURGE 
"Every time Iran kills an American Soldier they will pay for that killing many times over! 
This directive has been passed on to Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Daniel Caine, and every Leader in the Military," President Donald Trump asserted in a Monday Truth Social post . 
Former Rep. 
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who left Congress early this year after a falling out with the president last year, responded to Trump's comments by writing in a post on X, "Our American soldiers wouldn’t be getting killed if you weren’t fighting an unnecessary war against Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before you went to war. 
End the war. 
In your 1st term in 2019, gas was under $2 and inflation was 1.8%, DO THAT AGAIN!" 
ARMY IDS 2 VICTIMS KILLED IN JORDAN AIR BASE ATTACK; TRUMP: IRAN WILL PAY ‘MANY TIMES OVER’ 
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., declared in a Monday post on X, "Gas prices are back above $4 per gallon. 
The Republican war of choice in Iran is making life more expensive. 
Why is Pete Hegseth still around?" 
U.S. 
Central Command (CENTCOM) noted on Monday that it had "completed another round of strikes against Iran at 9 p.m. 
ET, July 20." 
TRUMP WEIGHS IRAN WAR EXPANSION AS FRESH US STRIKES TARGET HORMUZ SHIPPING THREATS 
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"U.S. forces struck Iranian military command centers, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and air defense systems to degrade Iran's ability to continue attacking commercial vessels flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. 
Commercial vessel transits through the vital international maritime corridor continue. 
Since early May, CENTCOM forces have helped facilitate the transit of approximately 900 commercial vessels and 450 million barrels of crude oil," the release noted . 
Confirmation Bias
23.2%
Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
10.7%
Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
4.2%
Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
21.7%
Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
15%
Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
7.5%
Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
1.5%
Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
24.2%
False Dilemma
7.2%
Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
4.2%
Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
8.2%
Begging the Question
15%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
26.7%
Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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No True Scotsman
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
0.7%
Quote-first Misdirection
4%
Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
0.7%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
5%

401 words analyzed.

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