Video & Analysis: Hickenlooper Calls Out High Gas Prices, Trump Corruption

While the average Colorado family has paid $583 more in gas since the Iran War began, Trump has made up to $15.5 million from oil & gas stocks WASHINGTON – As President Trump’s war with Iran continues, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper highlighted how Coloradans are paying the price at the pump while President Trump continues profiting off the war. According to a new report by the Joint Economic Committee Minority, Coloradans have collectively spent $1.3 billion more on gas since the Iran war began, amounting to $583 more per family. Meanwhile, at the end of 2025, President Donald Trump held as much as $45.6 million in oil and gas stocks, a portfolio that is now worth up to $61.1 million. “It’s no wonder President Trump refuses to end the war in Iran. He has a vested interest in prolonging it. While the Colorado families are struggling to put gas in their tanks, the President is making money hand over fist over this prolonged, illegal war,” Hickenlooper said in a video statement . “We have to end this forever war, and start fighting the high prices that are crushing working families.” Watch Hickenlooper’s Full Video Here While Trump continues his war with Iran, Hickenlooper has been fighting to lower costs for Americans. Last month, he celebrated the committee passage of his bipartisan Patients Deserve Price Tags Act , which would create true transparency in healthcare pricing and is a first step towards universal healthcare . The bill will help lower healthcare prices through creating opportunities for consumers to compare prices, leading to competition among providers to lower costs. Hickenlooper helped champion the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act to address the national affordable housing shortage by cutting red tape to build more homes, investing in programs to lower the cost of buying a house, and preventing corporations from dominating the housing market. In 2021, he worked with the Colorado delegation to deliver more than $3.8 billion in American Rescue Plan funding for the state, which included more than $500 million towards affordable housing investments and $300 million in emergency rental assistance for low-income households. Hickenlooper has spoken multiple times on the Senate floor condemning Trump for dragging America into a highly unpopular war that’s driving the cost-of-living through the roof. Hickenlooper has consistently voted to end Trump’s costly and deadly war. He’s called out skyrocketing gas prices and costly impacts on farmers’ bottom lines. Hickenlooper is concerned by the loss of life created by Trump’s war, including the deaths of U.S. service members abroad and the increasing civilian death toll . Hickenlooper has traveled across Colorado to hear from workers, ranchers, and farmers getting crushed by the increasing prices fueled by the war. He’s doing a state-wide tour of local hospitals and clinics to meet with Coloradans and hear how they are grappling with the increasing costs of healthcare. This spring, Hickenlooper met with truckers, construction and plumbing small businesses, labor unions, and rideshare drivers to discuss how the President’s tariffs and his reckless war in Iran – and the resulting spike in gas prices – is hurting transportation-dependent industries. He heard from a rideshare driver who was struggling to keep food on the table thanks to the increasing prices caused by the war. ###