President Donald Trump on Tuesday touted a recent 60-cent fall in gas prices as traffic continues to flow in the Strait of Hormuz on the heels of the Iran war.

While delivering remarks at a Mack Trucks plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania, the president highlighted the drop in gasoline prices after a surge in recent months due to the closure of the Strait, through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil travels.

“The average price of gasoline nationwide is down 60 cents a gallon, just from a short while ago… We had to make this detour, we had to go to Iran. You can’t let them blow up the Middle East, and then us, if that’s possible,” Trump said.

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