US oil tops $100 a barrel as Iran war rages; Donald Trump gives a ‘crude’ response: ‘very small price to pay’
Oil prices have climbed above $100 a barrel for the first time in more than three and a half years as the escalating war involving Iran disrupts energy production and shipping routes across the Middle East. US President Donald Trump called it a “very small price to pay for world peace”.“Short term oil prices, which…