Why Iran crisis is unlikely to hit US consumers hard at the gas pumps

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For many older Americans the thought of war in the Middle East will trigger memories of soaring gas prices and long lines at the pumps. But as US relations with Iran sink to a new low there is, as yet, no sign of panic.

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