Six months into a war nobody voted for, the Strait of Hormuz remains shut and American families are paying for it every time they fill up the tank.
The waterway that carried roughly a fifth of the world's traded oil before the U.S. and Israel launched air strikes against Iran on February 28 is still under Iranian control. Oil prices have swung wildly on global markets as a result, and the people footing the bill are working Americans — not the policymakers who got the country into this mess.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Oman's Badr al-Busaid met Tuesday in Tehran to discuss a framework for reopening the strait. A joint statement proposed a








