Meanwhile in LA
I know it’s gouging but Kalifornia officially sucks.
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Is that what we saw in 2007? 2008?
Is this how any of this works?
That’s how it works in the world of average people raising families. When the expense of commuting to work reduces your income to a level that can’t sustain your expenses then you look for alternate employment. Pretty much common sense in my neck of the woods.
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Maybe they will start car pooling … like responsible commuters.
That’s nice if you know someone going to the same destination as you, has to be there at the same time and has the same schedule so you get a ride home. For those that don’t have this, it pretty much limits your options.
So I just filled up in Texas for a little over $4. What makes the difference? Besides taxes, I believe someone mentioned something about California requiring a lot of designer grades.
Yep. $4.50 for me earlier today. Ought to have called 9-1-1 to report being robbed by pump #8.
E-85 holding steady at $2.89. Thanks, booze!
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It would bring a better price if they turned it into bourbon. 
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Just so everyone understands gas prices go up and down in ways most prices don’t.
One day we might see $3.00/gallon at the pump
but your brand new grocery bill, health insurance bill, rent, cost of car, cost of car insurance, cost of college, cost of retiring etc. etc… all those other prices. . . . when inflation falls back to 2%. . .
----> those prices do NOT return to previous levels they just go from rising fast to rising slowly.
Enjoy your night.
That’s because the price for a barrel of oil is set in no small measure by the emotional state of buyers. Tell them you’re gonna shut down oil and they don’t react to current supply and demand situation but to visions of future supply and demand … and then THAT oil technically has to be processed and sold before the next oil sold goes to gas stations… which of course starts at the price of the previous auctions.
And of course the price of gas at the pump is in relation to what they imagine it will cost them to replace that gas from the refinery.
I hope everyone is enjoying. After all, it saves the planet…right?
I am sure. How did it work in 2007 and 2008 in your neck of the woods?
People have always suffered when gas prices are high, no matter which party is in power.
Gas prices under President Trump were around $1.89 and now they are nearly $5.00 with Sleepy
Joe. Perhaps that means nothing to you but for a family trying to put food on the table it’s very significant.
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I didn’t say that it means nothing to me. It hurts You made a prediction. Clearly on experience and common sense. I referred you to the last time the prices were this high. I am simply asking if your prediction is based on anything other than whose in power
Thanks for answering
Gas prices returned to under $2 with an administration vowing to try to increase supply. This lot was vowing to shut it down to help the transition to electricity even before the Steal.
Ford is apparently advertising that their EV pickup can power your home for as much as 10 days … when it will drain down from driving in hours.
I wonder how the power grid can deal with these things becoming common?
Learning the wrong lessons (how long your EV can power your home) comes with being fixated of the wrong solutions (EVs).
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Guys as much as you want to say Obama’s second term was the worst ever gas price s hit 2 bucks in 2016. The Gas prices were below 2 dollars in 2020 for two months. During a pandemic when the price of oil was zero….
I don’t have an issue with the trump presidency. I have an issue with the fantasy you have built it into.
Reagan part deux
This is what the Green new deal would feel like, hope the voters in November will remember that.
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Again, the price of oil is driven not by current supply and demand but by expectations of the future.
Guess who was saying he’d be against oil before the Steal? Guess who has been since?
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Hold polling places at gas stations and supermarkets.
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