AAA’s Sunday national average near $4.47 a gallon — about 38 cents higher than a month earlier — is still the consumer number business desks carry into Tuesday. Retail gasoline lags crude, but Brent’s jump above $106 on the Iran reject keeps rack prices and regional averages under upward pressure.

The Transportation Department’s CAFE finalization matters for model-year product plans, not for this week’s fill-up. That mismatch — long-run efficiency rules versus near-term war oil — is why pump-pain stories and auto-regulation stories are traveling together without canceling each other.

Fleet operators, rideshare drivers, and fall-travel retailers feel the squeeze first. Watch AAA’s daily update, EIA inventory data, and any Hormuz mediator surprise. A reopen deal that markets believe would be the fastest relief valve; absent that, businesses should budget for elevated fuel into October.

Consumer and market wires agree elevated national pump averages coincide with Hormuz-driven crude strength.

Some expect mediator talks to cool prices; others expect war risk to keep a floor under gasoline into autumn.

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AAA’s recent national average near $4.47 a gallon remains the household benchmark. Pump prices track Hormuz risk more than Monday’s CAFE paperwork.

Market moves can reverse quickly around data prints and policy headlines; this briefing sticks to what publishers have already put on the record overnight.

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