The ongoing Iran conflict and rising crude oil prices are driving up consumer costs, particularly at the gas pump, and may lead to increased prices for goods, food, and inflation in the U.S.

As the price of crude oil surged, consumers were feeling the effects of the Iran war and its damage to worldwide energy production. Gasoline prices are climbing.

MESICK — Consumers Energy is telling the state that they don’t plan to budge on their plan to sell 13 hydroelectric dams to a Maryland-based company for $1 each. Consumers also says that a regulator ...