Gas Prices Are Going to Go Up

See, if you paid for gas insread of charging your car, you wouldn't have let yourself get ripped off for $600 on an exterior entry system

FTFY

Good times!

Here in SW Ohio.

Yesterday morning it was $3.79.
By mid-evening it was $4.09.

Are we supposed to be able to read that because it makes no sense.

Whoopsie-doodle, it's $4.59 here.

That’s why I topped off this morning. I gas up once a month since I work from home. I’m regretting my road trip to LA in April. Should have booked a plane ride.

Americans complaining about gas prices is so cute!

$4.57 at Fred Meyer in Portland.

My coming roadtrips to Santa Fe in May, and Reno in June/July is looking a bit spendier than I'm liking now

(But fuck flying with large clarinets. Too risky.)

I'm planning a trip to North Platte, NE at the end of July for some training with my teacher. Planning to drive with one of my co-owners. Yeah, it's gonna be more expensive than we planned, but try clearing TSA with swords, knives, throwing stars and other fun stuff...

Bit late to the party but I heard something about gas prices going up?

With all the “Thanks Biden” memes going around, it just occurred to me that 1) I can’t remember him ever promising that gas prices would never go up and 2) the last time gas under $2 per gallon the economy was in the shitter.

It's what happens when Ted Wheeler gets gassed.

Watching people driving big honking SUVs line up at Costco warms the cockles of my heart.

I might have to buy me a toy with all the money I'm saving on gas.

That player piano is tempting.

Well, yeah, we don't have a healthcare safety net here, everything's already expensive as hell, people are getting shit wages because god forbid they have the bare minimum $15 an hour (which is still poverty if you work full time), and our infrastructure is designed around needing a car rather than having available mass transit. Our system is a just-in-time system, and it's failing. The poorest are the first to feel it, and there's nothing cute about it.

Two weeks ago the price was was almost $10 less, the week before about $20 less. A year ago $30 less.




I didn't stop the pump at $74.00, the air shut off did. Just happened to auto shut off on an even dollar amount.

Hoping we will see some more photos of people trying to stock up on gas by filling up plastic grocery bags, like we saw at the start of the pandemic.

I watched a guy fill a bucket with gas, then really back to his car to fill out from the bucket. He spilled at least half of it onto the ground about a year back.

Its going to level off and drop back down at some point. This is mostly speculators driving up the price. Where are the economy cars? Oh thats right some guy did away with the MPG standards 5 years ago.

A year ago most people werent driving due to covid
2 weeks ago most people were going back to work
last week was the invasion.

One station, I was referring to national average, which was broken today.

inflation calculator says $1 in 2008 equals $1.31 in 2022

The previous high was $4.11 on July 17, 2008, according to AAA. That would come to around $5.40 today when adjusted for inflation.

(The high under Obama was 3.79 in 2012, which would be about $4.60 today)

Still, Lanz's original point remains only on his head, as last I checked Dubya was still one of his guys.

I have no faith in the media but I have even less faith when they repeat the Republican talking points about Keystone XL. That Biden blocked it and that is hurting our domestic energy production.

He blocked the fourth and final stage of Keystone XL, which would transport the tar sands from Canada to Texas to be refined and then shipped internationally. So the final phase has next to nothing to do with our domestic production but the media has no problem carrying that water for the Repubs.

Texas needs heavy sour crude from Canada as that's what they built refineries for. Without sour crude from Canada they buy it from Russia, Mexico and others, which they were happy to do as it sold for less than our domestically pumped oil on the international market.

The US is a net oil exporter. Even if we stopped exports, we don't have refinery capacity for it.

So technically, Keystone XL is affecting Texas' ability to run at full capacity, especially since we are no longer importing Russian heavy sour crude. Texas (at least the companies that have refineries there) shot itself in the foot. Texas will have to find other suppliers.

it's about time for that "drill baby drill" mantra to start over. Nothing ever changes. Get off oil.

Stop gouging oil prices. Not much has really changed.

Texas has far too fucking many heavy, sour, crude folk.