“Oil Holds Above $90 After Middle East Tensions Push Brent Higher”

“…The global benchmark Brent earlier pierced $91 a barrel, before trading little changed. The focus has shifted to a dramatic repricing of geopolitical risk, after Israel increased preparations for a potential retaliation by Tehran to a strike on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Syria. That has stoked fears of a wider regional conflict…”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oil-rises-further-middle-east-232803117.html

This should not be affecting oil prices here in the US. We are a major producer of oil and energy now. Middle eastern conflict is just an excuse to drive up prices here.