It’s time to separate fact from fiction—and that’s exactly what we’re doing today.

Because the claim that America is suddenly in the middle of an oil emergency due to operations in Iran? That’s fiction.

Here’s the reality.

Of all the oil the United States imports, only about 4 percent came from the Middle East last year. The overwhelming majority comes from much closer to home—Canada and Mexico—and increasingly from places like Venezuela.

So the narrative that turmoil in Iran has suddenly crippled America’s oil supply simply doesn’t line up with the numbers.

The spike in oil prices to nearly $120 a barrel earlier this week had far more to do with market speculation and manipulation than with any genuine shortage. Insurance companies briefly pulled coverage from ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, which caused traders to panic and prices to jump.

Those are temporary factors. They’re also incredibly profitable ones.

Oil companies will likely post record profits this year, and none of this resembles the kind of sustained supply crisis that would justify tapping America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

And sure enough, the market already corrected itself. After hitting nearly $120 a barrel early Monday morning, prices dropped back below $80 just days later.

Don’t take my word for it. Former Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette weighed in and pointed out that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is pushing to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve now—despite blocking President Trump from refilling it in 2020 when oil prices were historically low.

Schumer’s sudden concern about energy policy doesn’t stop there.

This week he also made a dramatic show on the Senate floor about banning oil sales to China, accusing Donald Trump of ignoring American concerns about energy prices.

But there’s an obvious problem with that criticism.

Schumer had absolutely nothing to say when Joe Biden sold oil from America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration hasn’t exactly been sitting around when it comes to protecting global oil trade. Multiple safeguards and protections are already in place.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt laid out some of those measures.

And this brings us back to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve itself.

The reserve is meant to be exactly what the name suggests—a strategic emergency measure used for national security threats. It’s not supposed to be a political tool that gets deployed every time markets have a bad day.

But that’s exactly what the Biden administration did.

After damaging the economy, they drained the reserve to artificially push gas prices down ahead of the midterm elections.

That kind of political manipulation is precisely why many Americans simply don’t trust Democrats when they start sounding the alarm about energy prices.

Now they’re trying to claim that Donald Trump somehow caused the recent price spike because he is confronting Iran and dismantling its nuclear capabilities.

That’s simply not true.

And even if there were a temporary increase in gas prices because of military action against Iran’s nuclear program, many Americans would consider that a small price to pay for preventing a nuclear-armed regime in Tehran and restoring stability to the Middle East after nearly half a century of chaos.

But again—that’s not even what’s happening here. The price movement we saw this week was a market reaction, not a supply collapse, and it’s already fading.

Ironically, Democrats once openly admitted they were comfortable with higher gas prices.

Back in 2008, Barack Obama said he actually preferred a “gradual” increase in gas prices in the name of fighting climate change—essentially telling Americans they would have to live with it.

Gas prices did rise during Obama’s presidency—dramatically. By 2012, drivers in some states were paying more than $5 a gallon.

And the only reason prices dropped at one point was because the Obama administration released 30 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in 2011.

Sound familiar?

That playbook seems to have inspired Joe Biden years later.

So Democrats appear perfectly comfortable with high gas prices when they believe it pushes Americans toward solar panels and wind turbines—two energy sources that remain unreliable and expensive when scaled to meet national demand.

Yet somehow they’re outraged about a short-term price spike that Donald Trump didn’t even cause.

The double standard would be amusing if it weren’t so predictable.

And the misinformation doesn’t stop with energy markets.

Senator Mark Kelly recently claimed that nothing meaningful has been accomplished in Iran during the current operations.

That’s quite a statement.

The Iraq War involved nearly a decade of boots on the ground and massive troop deployments. By contrast, the current operations against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure have achieved major strategic results in just 11 days—without a full-scale military invasion.

Eleven days, not nine years.

Yet Senator Kelly insists nothing strategic has been accomplished.

He talks confidently about what President Trump does or doesn’t have planned, despite the fact that he’s not sitting in the Situation Room and doesn’t have access to the operational details.

Nor should he.

Because if he did, there’s a strong chance those details would end up leaked within hours.

Still, the talking point continues: that Trump has somehow lost the support of the voters who elected him.

That claim doesn’t hold up either—and even CNN has acknowledged it.

The numbers don’t lie.

But the politics often do.

Right now what we’re witnessing is a familiar Washington routine: panic headlines, selective outrage, and political finger-pointing designed to manufacture a crisis that doesn’t actually exist.

The facts tell a very different story.

There is no oil emergency. There is no collapsing supply. And there is no Trump-created energy crisis.

What we’re seeing instead is market speculation, political spin, and a well-worn playbook in action.

So the next time you hear the latest round of panic about oil prices or Middle East policy, remember to check the facts before buying the story. Because when you separate the noise from reality, the numbers still tell the real story.