Editor, Gazette-Journal: All politics is local. The war in Iran may be 1,000s of miles away but the effects are hitting us right here in the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula. The most obvious is gas prices, up over a dollar since the war started, a war that was supposed to be over in a matter of days but has now gone on for months. With gas and diesel prices up, everything that has to be transported costs more. We see it every time we go to the grocery store. The closing of the Strait of Hormuz, a place few thought about several months ago, is causing fertilizer prices to surge, hurting our farmers who are already having a tough time with sky-high diesel prices. Washington, D.C. isn’t so far away but many people still feel what goes on there doesn’t affect them. This administration would have you believe tariffs hurt other countries but, in reality, it’s the American consumer that’s paying the cost. Trump levied these tariffs through Executive Order after Executive Order even though ...