The folks that drive big lifted diesel powered pickups must love fueling up right now. One benefit might be that “coal rolling” is too expensive for them for the time being.
What was the Biden ceiling? I don’t buy gasoline, so have no idea.
Right now, the AAA National average is $3.79/gallon. Diesel is $5.04/gallon.
It was around $5 per gallon in June 2022. Just when the pandemic was ending and demand was starting to build and the supply chain had not caught up to the new demand. Nothing of which a president controls, but whenever something bad happens and it’s a Democratic president, then it’s obviously the president’s fault.
Don’t forget international sanctions on the second largest oil exporter in the world.
Right. The AAA Fuel price page has that down below the table of current prices. I saw that, but for some reason didn’t connect it to the Biden ceiling. Anyway, their average has been going up a few cents per day since the war started. If it keeps that up, we’ll hit $5.00 in about a month.
$5 here in Santa Barbara…Ventura, Central Coast areas
I paid 5.85 for premium yesterday at a Mobile station. There’s another Mobile about 3/4 mile down the street that was 6.05, but that was over the weekend. The price for diesel at each was 6.39 iirc.
And, jeez, I know people are prideful and stubborn, but how much more of their hard earned money do they need to part with before they’ve had enough? When can I say “I told you so” with no possibility of rebuttal?
I am waiting until one of my maga friends starts to complain about the rising price of gasoline. My response will be “Gee, I wonder why that’s happening?”
Answer: Obama and Biden let Iran go ahead and build nuclear weapons. The Orange One wisely decided to deal with it once and for all. Small price to pay for World Peace – the Orange One will probably get a Nobel Peace Prize for starting this war! /s
This is the logic of the Spin Zone of Delusion.
Last night at Tennis they weren’t blaming Biden or Obama specifically but the collective “Democrat policies that have prevented us from becoming energy self sufficient”
I’m not holding my breath that any of the “inflation” voters is going to turn on Trump. It was never about inflation.
“Energy self-sufficient” is a term that doesn’t mean shit. The price of oil depends on global supply and global demand. What would help the price of gasoline would be to develop alternative energy sources to reduce the demand for fossil fuels- exactly what Democrats have been advocating for decades. Try to explain this to a MAGAsshole, and you’ll get their ultimate insult: “You sound vaccinated.”
Obviously asking for a cite will get you little more than a “do your own homework”*, so I think more of us need to reply to those types of statements with “There’s a reason Trump said ‘smart people don’t like me’”.
*And, trying explain that asking for the reasons behind your statement IS doing my homework, will get you nowhere.
There is no top end. Covid deniers were still denying that covid existed as they lay dying in the hospital from covid.
Yup, while I do drive an ICE car, I’m retired now and often don’t use if for days. And when I do it’s <20 miles seems like I never put gas in it.
We did go solar. Our electricity bill last month was 36 bucks. We do have to pay for our special meter set up. That’s OK.
Yes I have to pay the system off, but knowing that I have power, and the monthly bill is less than a decent lunch is nice.
We do use the grid through net metering. When we make more than we need we sell it to the electric company, and then buy it back at night. I’m essentially using the electric company as a battery/storage.
I may go to real batteries on site, I want to see what the AC is gonna do to usage though.
Yes; as many people have pointed out MAGA is a personality cult and cults operate on faith, not reason. Evidence is something to be denied, not believed; denying the evidence is a virtue as it shows strong faith.
Any pushback due to gas prices will come from outside the cult. Best you’ll get from inside it is them trying to blame it on the Democrats.
You know the answer is going to involve Harris, Biden, or Obama. Hell they might even invoke Bill Clinton. Introspection is not their strong suit.
Instead of just falling into our traditional ruts, I figured I’d pull some actual reporting.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5783652-trump-energy-policy-impact/
A couple quotes on Trump/MAGA responses certainly echo the points in the thread:
“But we had to end the nuclear threat in the Middle East and throughout the world and we will have done that,” he [ Trump ] added.
At a press conference at a Massachusetts gas station, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said: “This morning, Pete Hegseth said, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ Well, the people pulling up to the pump today, they’re worried about it.”
And trying into the last quote:
“The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,” Trump said Thursday on his social media site.
It was only last month, in his State of the Union address, that Trump had bragged about gas prices at $2.30 a gallon, a figure that has since soared more than 50% to a national average of $3.60 a gallon, according to AAA.
The flip-flop shows Trump’s political interests at home are suddenly at odds with his desire to flex America’s muscles on the global stage.
I think, speaking to political actions regarding gasoline, that framing it as an economic issue is more likely to appeal to the less motivated voters, and the very narrow fringe of flip-floppers (the ones that voted Biden, then Trump because of things like “egg prices”). Especially the last quote, where Trump seems to be bragging about making money, but those voters see only the increased expense. But I do have little hope for reaching the true MAGA faithful.
Makes you wish for Biden era gas prices…, doesn’t it?
“And you sound like someone who doesn’t have an argument. That’s ok, I know you can’t admit when you’re wrong.”
That’s what I would want to say. Fortunately, I don’t have anyone in my life who thinks that way (for certain values of “think”).
I expect another price jump soon. The Brent crude oil price spiked today, rising to above $114 a barrel before dropping back to the current (7:35 CT) price of $113.