US Energy Secretary Chris Wright says gasoline prices appeared to have peaked after a surge linked to the Iran war — a marked shift in tone a day after President Donald Trump publicly rebuked his earlier, more cautious outlook, AFP reports.

“I don’t know the future of energy prices — often I will speculate or look at those things. I would say, gasoline prices, it looks like they peaked about a week or so ago,” Wright has told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

He adds that the high point was $1 a gallon cheaper than the peak during the administration of Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden, stating: “Yet we’re in the midst of ending a 47-year conflict in the Middle East, a major energy-producing region.”