Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 43. Sunrise is 7:12 and sunset is 6:57 for 11 hours 45 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 38.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Commission meets at 5:30 PM.
On this day in 1933, during the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as president. This is also the first of his “fireside chats.”
During this little excursion1 war with Iran, the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf has slowed, and so oil & gasoline prices have increased. Mr. Trump has an answer to escalating prices — they’ll make oil barons richer:
When oil prices go up, we make a lot of money.
See Zachary Folk, Trump Insists Oil Price Hikes Are Good For U.S.—As It Hits $100 A Barrel Again, Forbes, March 12, 2026.
Someone should ask Trump: Whattaya mean by we?
If Trump means holders of oil stocks, then yeah, they’re doing well this morning:
For a quick primer on why oil prices go up despite America’s role as a net producer, see Emmett Lindner, America Is an Oil Exporter. Why Does a Mideast War Raise U.S. Gas Prices?, New York Times, March 10, 2026. For Mr. Trump’s bad advice to tanker crews, see Colby Hall, Trump Told Tankers to ‘Show Some Guts.’ Then They Were Bombed, Mediaite, March 12, 2026.
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- See Francesca Chambers and Zac Anderson, Trump calls Iran war a ‘little excursion’ (The president dropped by a retreat at his Doral, Florida, golf club to sell the Iran war and pump up Republican lawmakers ahead of the midterm elections), USA Today, March 9, 2026. ↩︎
Oil ship attacked near southern port of Basra: