# Pritzker Goes After Big Oil Over Gas Prices, Accusing Companies of Profiting From Iran Conflict
The gas pump has become a political battlefield again, and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker just planted a flag in the middle of it.
In remarks that spread quickly across social media, Pritzker laid into major oil companies, accusing them of using the recent escalation between the United States and Iran as cover to raise prices at the pump — and of pocketing the difference while American families absorb the cost. It was a blunt, populist message, delivered with the
