Boys and girls: Gas was $3.13 today. That's how you win elections, damn it!

[lindysalsagal]

[MichMan]

1. $3.75 here

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Yeah, it's gone up about .20 a gallon in the past week. I suspect it will be almost

$4 a gallon by the time the election rolls around.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. It Went Up Here...

...90 cents between the first of the year & the last third of February. It's been at that price for 3 weeks now.
Crude went up about 19% over that time. Gas went up 32%.
Supposedly, a big refinery went down for maintenance but that's nonsense. There are 129 refineries in the US. Not one of them was operating at over 88% of demonstrated throughput. The average was around 85%.
Even if that refinery was huge and supplied 5% of refined product, the other 128 sites could turn up 4% of 85% or 3.4% oh, and they did. There is no supply shortage. Yet refined product prices went up 68% more than raw material costs.

[Midnight Writer]

11. Same here.

Last gas I bought was 2.59. Today it is 3.58.

[Ferrets are Cool]

13. They need no logic to raise prices.

[a kennedy]

4. 3.09 Southeast MN.

[SouthernIrish]

5. 2.85 in East Tennessee

[Liberal In Texas]

6. The Saudi's have or are going to cut production to help you know who.

So the price of gas will be creeping up and up until after November. I don't think there is much to be done about it.

On the upside, it should help EV sales.

[onenote]

7. Gas prices increase between February and April every single year.

From 2004 through 2023, the average price of gas has been higher -- often by as much as 30 to 60 cents per gallon, in April than in February every year except 2013 and 2020. The 2020 decline was as a result of the pandemic. Not sure what was going on in 2013. But otherwise, an increase in the price of gas as we move from winter to spring is totally expected. The main reasons for the increase are the transition from winter gas blends to summer gas blends and the increase in demand as people begin driving more as the weather improves.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=emm_epmr_pte_nus_dpg&f=m

[Renew Deal]

8. It was cheaper 3 weeks ago.

I wouldn’t use gas prices as an indicator of success.

[Emile]

9. Gas prices around here have raised for Spring Break.

[Ron Green]

10. It's a shame to see low gas prices as a positive electoral strategy.

Seems like universal health care, better public education outcomes, or more available housing would be more meaningful and long-term ways to attract votes.

[hunter]

12. Sadly, most people still don't give a damn about global warming.

At best they are in the bargaining phase of their grief over the loss of the natural environment our species evolved in.

Hey universe, maybe if I put up some solar panels and wind turbines?

We might have saved ourselves by banning fossil fuels starting in the 'seventies, eliminating our dependence on fossil fuels entirely by the turn of the century.

Alas, our exploitation of fossil fuels is only increasing. The U.S.A. is extracting more oil and gas than it ever has and we are celebrating that.

I know what the political realities are. A promise to ban fossil fuels isn't going to win elections.

So here we are. The best we can hope for, as the oceans rise and the climate becomes more dangerous and chaotic, is government that respects human rights. That's why I enthusiastically support the Biden administration and Democrats. It has nothing to do with the price of gasoline.

Personally, the price of gasoline means little to me. For most of my adult life I've been able to avoid the car commuter lifestyle. Even when I was in my early twenties, I could fill the tank of my little car for less than an hour's wages. At my lowest point, when I was homeless and unemployed, living in my broken car and later a garden shed in the backyard of a PTSD Vietnam war veteran, I wasn't buying gasoline anyways.

[Johnny2X2X]

14. Summer blend

Gas is a different blend in the Summer. It’s more expensive and they switched over to it the last few weeks.

[Johnny2X2X]

15. Summer blend

Gas is a different blend in the Summer. It’s more expensive and they switched over to it the last few weeks.

[Norbert]

16. We are at $3.35.

The MAGATs are already saying in 2020 gas was at $1.89 which is true at a time demand was very low and we were staying home because of COVID. MAGATs do not know context.

[RainCaster]

17. $4.25 in WA

Those electric cars are looking better all the time. Except for Tesla.

[Ferryboat]

19. 3.60 up north puget sound.

Up .30 from 2 weeks ago.

Native American owned outlets pay no sales tax on gasoline. Hence much higher prices elsewhere.

Around the corner $4.10.

[Arthur_Frain]

18. Really?

Because here in AK it jumped 50 cent over two nights. They’ll breakout their remaining “I did that” stickers pretty soon.

No idea why it went up, but this is not good. I was hoping it would drop further in the run up to the election, and I still hope it will, but the mysterious bump makes me wonder who we are getting to bomb?

[bif]

20. Even though the President has little to do with prices

[Xavier Breath]

21. Gotta believe the price of gas on St. Patrick's Day means little for a November election.

Let me know what it is on Halloween.