Gas Hits $8!

Breaking the bank.

Another.

lol...

We're scroomed!

I'm glad I live in a city with good public transportation and within walking distance to almost anything I need.

It's 5.79 by me. Yall just taking pictures in Bev Hills

Just try and stay out of my way. Just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little car, too!

What's wrong, don't you like being part of the Incredible transition?

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup's Economic Confidence Index measured -45 in May, down from -39 in each of the previous two months. It is the lowest reading in Gallup's trend during the coronavirus pandemic, and likely the lowest confidence has been since the tail end of the Great Recession in early 2009.

I was driving up to SF from LA and thought maybe the gas would be cheaper in this little town of Gilroy. It was more expensive than LA. In a desperate move, I went to a Costco gas station and charmed someone into letting me use their card for cheap gas. It was like $1.00+/gallon difference.

The US is finally catching up with the rest of the world! Congrats!!

Yeah, R11, except the U.S. designed most of its infrastructure and residential layout on the assumption of cheap gas.

[quote] I went to a Costco gas station and charmed someone into letting me use their card for cheap gas.

Charmed = offered them a blow job.

[quote] Backlash as Biden Says High Gas Prices Are Part of 'Incredible Transition'

Did he get his cue cards confused?

He may appoint Dr. Levine Sec of Transportation next.

R11 "except the U.S. designed most of its infrastructure and residential layout on the assumption of cheap gas."

I'm working on changing that. You're welcome

More reason to move to electric cars. Americans are way too dependent on gas fueled cars.

Pete will be doing fat nada except pork for his corporate Owners.

R16 is going to buy us electric cars!

R8- I know one thing- Biden is transitioning into a MUMMY.

R6- My local gasoline station BP is $4.93 a gallon for regular credit card. I went to gasbuddy.com and some states gasoline is still under $4 per gallon.

Tensions is high

r21 I really enjoyed that. The merchant was WELL prepared. I am presuming by the timing of the outside shooter opening fire on Jesse James and Gang at just the right moment he is or an owner in a fortunate position or private security.

Situational awareness wins most battles if you have the will and means to use it.

I'd love to have heard the gangsters trying to explain to mom what happened to her car.

[quote] [R16] is going to buy us electric cars!

As well as the charging stations and a 14-story extension cord!

Yay.

It was $4.16/gallon yesterday here in coastal Georgia. I went to buy gas for the lawnmower early today and it had come down to $4.14/gallon. It was $4.09/gallon last Saturday.

Lucky for you Georgia is not trying to restrict their oil refineries to death as California does

Thanks, r20. Easy to go to gasbuddy and check for the lowest prices in each of the States.

Electric vehicles. Huzzah

Texas $3,49, even in Austin the gallon is under $4.

4.29 in the Phoenix suburbs. I am staying home and driving very little.

[quote] Texas $3,49, even in Austin the gallon is under $4.

I hope you're saving the money you're saving on gas. You'll need that extra money this winter when your electricity grid goes down again and you get more outlandish bills in the mail from the power company.

[quote] Gas Hits $8!

$5.89 at my cheap gas station spots in LA, which has been on the high side of consistent the last few weeks.

CNN won't accept Biden flack's BS about gasoline prices

CNN anchor Victor Blackwell battled President Joe Biden‘s infrastructure czar Mitch Landrieu Wednesday, saying that despite administration promises and tapping the strategic reserve, “all we’ve seen since then was a series of record highs.”

The segment on CNN Newsroom began with a clip of former Obama economic adviser and Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers warning about a recession “within the next two years.”

“Here’s the unfortunate, painful fact, and it’s true of the U.S. experience and it’s true of the experience of other rich countries like us,” said Summers. “When inflation’s above 4 [percent] and unemployment’s below 4 [percent], you are almost certain to have a recession within the next two years.”

“He was right about inflation when White House officials were wrong,” said Blackwell. “What do you think about this calculation?”

Landrieu, who admitted he himself is “not an economist,” said there’s been disagreement between Summers and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen “about whether things are transitory or whether they last a long time.”

Regarding inflation and gas prices, said Landrieu, “the president and his team have been working hard on this, and there’s a lot of evidence that there’s a lot of success in making sure that we have a really good foundation upon which to try to dig ourselves out of.”

“What’s the evidence of that,” interjected Blackwell.

The president has already enacted a massive piece of legislation called the Infrastructure Act, which is designed to actually help rebuild the supply chains and to fix the rails and to fix the roads and to fix the air and to fix the water. On top of that, he released product from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to bring down gas prices…

“They certainly didn’t bring down gas prices,” said Blackwell. “He announced that release. Today, gas is $4.67 a gallon.”

Landrieu contended that “the president himself doesn’t control the price of gas. You asked whether or not there was anything that was in his power that he can do.”

“Certainly, he does not control the price of gas, but the president said that releasing from the Strategic Reserve would bring down the price of gas, and all we’ve seen since then was a series of record highs,” replied Blackwell.

I just wonder, with all this inflation in general, when prices start going down again, how far will they drop?

Will we accept $4/$5/gallon as the new normal?

Oil companies all made record profits in the first quarter of the year. Maybe Biden should start taxing their excess profits and prices would go down.

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I would definitely accept 3.99-4.05 as the new normal if it would just stay there.

I guess the higher ups at CNN are pissed about paying more at the pump and want answers!

Where I live in Canada it’s been the equivalent of $8.40 USD for the past couple of weeks, and that’s DOWN from what it was before, so…🤷🏻

There are a few gas stations in LA that are likely money laundering operations and charge $1-2 more than any other gas station nearby. Not any sort of indicator unless you want to subtract $1.50

[Quote]I would definitely accept 3.99-4.05 as the new normal if it would just stay there.

I was on vacation in California in 2010 and paid 3.89/gallon. That was 12 years ago. You wanna know how much we currently pay in Europe? Americans are such fucking pussies with their gas prices. They have no idea how much more the rest of the world currently has to pay for energy. My brother lives in Texas and is constantly whining that gas is a dollar more than what he usually pays. I tell him to go fuck himself several times a week.

[quote] Americans are such fucking pussies with their gas prices

Why do you seek to make life more difficult for oppressed minorities?

How many Europeans drive 50 miles to work one way?, or even 20miles? The French throw paving stones on the regular re: prices. So, don't start that crap.

^What kind of ignorant moron are you? You think everyone lives in big cities with great public transportation in Europe? Stupid idiot.

^Stupid ignorant idiot here, so since you are SOOOO smart, gives us a roug estimate. Take France. How many people in the vast countryside drive 20-50miles one way to work everyday?

[quote]except the U.S. designed most of its infrastructure and residential layout on the assumption of cheap gas.

Well whose fault is that?

R45 I bet you're one of those Americans who never left the country, but wants to lecture other people. Maybe get your fat ass over the pond and travel around Europe and see for yourself that there a many regions where people have to travel 20+ miles each day to get to work or the next big city for groceries. Northern France is one of those regions where almost no public transportation and infrastructure is available anymore and people heavily rely on cars and cheap gas prices. That was one of the reasons Le Pen was almost able to win the presidential election earlier this year bc Macron mainly cares about elites and constituents in metropolitan areas.

So now it is exactly the same price as it was in LA in 1979, in current dollars.

Name 2 regions/towns in France, where you claim this is the case. Then we can google & see how many people live there, where markets are, employers. etc. Waiting..

[Quote] How many Europeans drive 50 miles to work one way?, or even 20miles?

THAT is your choice. Who chooses to drive 100 mil round trip for a job? Bad life decisions. Move to an area where you can live closer to your work.

[Quote]Name 2 regions/towns in France, where you claim this is the case. Then we can google & see how many people live there, where markets are, employers. etc. Waiting..

Look at a fucking map, moron.

^Moron, here,. Being so limited as you have named me, cI couldn't possibly do it. Since you are the highly sophisticated, evolved Euro brain trust.. You pick them, I'm too American Stupid. You are so familiar with France, you do it... But bet my dick is bigger & cuter than yours.

[quote] You wanna know how much we currently pay in Europe? Americans are such fucking pussies with their gas prices. They have no idea how much more the rest of the world currently has to pay for energy. My brother lives in Texas and is constantly whining that gas is a dollar more than what he usually pays. I tell him to go fuck himself several times a week.

Most Europeans get free health care, huge benefits, free housing. Not that I begrudge you this, but in the US, if you are poor, you are pretty much living on the streets and no one will give 2 shits. Every dollar counts, so let us complain about gas.

R53, Europeans don’t get free anything. I live in a country which Americans claim has free healthcare, but what you fail to acknowledge is that we’re required to pay for health insurance. And if you want the best quality of care in terms of appointments and doctors, people have to pay for private insurance.

Nothing is free. Americans would go ballistic if they were forced to pay taxes at the same rate as many European countries, in order to get the same benefits.

R54 all I have to reference is the UK, but there, you won't go hungry, unhoused or without healthcare unless you really try. They have council flats if you have no home and if no council flat is available they will put you up in a B&B (which is not necessarily the charming inns Americans might picture). Obviously the NHS is major. We have none of that. In places like Norway, Finland, Switzerland being homeless is also not really a thing.

Regular is $4.79 at the Shell in my neighborhood in MD. With my MPG and round trip mileage, it costs me $10 a day to go to work.

Could we be entering a Mad Max phase where there is all out warfare over gas? Think of all the Americans in LA who drive. If there is a recession and people can’t afford gas … what happens?

R57, what happens in poorer countries? That's what will happen.

I saw a print ad today for "pre-loved" furniture. The ad contained a picture of a couch. Tried to make it seem like owning someone's old couch was a desirable thing.

That's where the country is going.

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1. High prices are not going away any time soon. 2. Republicans gain support in the fall, then blame Democrats when they can’t get the prices down either. 3. Suddenly the prices for all those lovely million dollar homes out in the middle of nowhere crash. 4. The price of energy intensive, multi step, multi sourced manufactured products like paper cups, cream cheese, restaurant containers, absolutely explode. The business models for companies like Uber, delivery, and small, next day packaging delivery or trial size products suddenly doesn’t make sense.

The good news is people drive less, throw away less plastics, and we depend less on cheap throwaway empires like Dollar Store. Expect to see more community involvement, a revival of local shops and refillable options. I’m also guessing charities start co-ops for the poor rather than food banks so they can staff the outreach properly.

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To me, the scary think about the coming R takeover of Congress is that they can't offer up a debt-financed tax cut any more. Inflation is too high.

What they can offer is endless culture war bullshit, including a Hunter Biden committee and an impeachment of Joe Biden.

This is what they'll be doing as gas prices stay high and housing prices collapse all over the country.

This is a money grab by the big oil companies. Democrats have nothing to do with it. Stupid people will believe the Republicans when they tell them it's the Democrats fault, but it's the free market cash in while you can business model. Oil company profits have broken all previous records.

My friend cries about high gas prices and how he can barely fill the tank of his new $75,000maxed out Ford F-150. I wish Fiat would launch their new version of the Fiat 500 here. I bet they would sell like hotcakes.

I’m in Germany and did the math: Mid-grade gas where I’m at comes out to about $8.10 a gallon.

[quote] 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐆𝐚𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 $𝟏𝟎

Ok, the DM often gets it right, but I can say that this is definitely not true in SoCal. Maybe up north. If you really wanted to push up the sensortialization , you could say CA is nearing $7 a gallon, but even the most expensive gas stations which seem to be Chevron or Exxon are 6.99. You can still get can get gas for under $6.00 as of yesterday.

^ Wow, what a bargain! Only $6.00 a gallon. That' Fantastic. Imagine how much you spend on that freeway traffic jam commute. Oh wait, you made a foolish life choice. Shame on you! Biden Apparatchiks with us, as always. My favorite is when they say he has BDF

That reminds me- I have to go right now and fill up my Volkswagen Rabbit 🐰

Paid $6.89 for premium 2 days ago in San Diego. People complaining about $4 gas in other states is crazy to me. I can't remember the last time gas was under $4 a gallon in California?

But will these high gas prices be permanent?

Trying to decide if I should add fossil fuel companies to my portfolio.

Why do you think the ruling class is so desperate to talk about gun control and abortion and Ukraine? We're not supposed to notice our crumbling living standards.

The new republican government should be more responsive to actual consumer demand than bullshit statistical cases from the packed-deck Ivy League. departments. If in the meantime the R&D actually develops economical and efficient green substitutes you won't need government coercion and lies to push society the new way.

R72 - what the hell are you talking about?

R33 Why the fuck doesn't CNN give Victor Blackwell a primetime show? Get rid of Don Lemon and watch the ratings rise.

There’s going to be rioting when it hits $10 nationwide.

For reference, there was no rioting when gas prices doubled-to-tripled in the 1970s; when you could get gas only on even or odd days depending the last digit of your license plate; and when you had to get on line for gas at 4 AM to be sure the pumps weren’t dry by the time you had waited in line for several hours. I recognize that people no longer behave like they did in the 1970s, but there are plenty of folks who lived through bad “gas pain” in the past without resorting to violence.

^ How soon people forget the hand sanitizer & toilet paper wars with plenty of violence during covid.

[Quote] There’s going to be rioting when it hits $10 nationwide.

Ummm, no they won't. If people are not protesting $5-$7.00 then they will not for any other price. Americans are fat, lazy and dumb. They just fall in line.

R78 For now, yes. But there are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.

Sometimes I think De-facto is rooting for the apocalypse.

Well, like a lot of white nationalists he’s probably an accelerationist as well (desiring political and social turbulence that will result in a race war).

R80 the American federal government losing whatever remaining credibility and authority it has left would be far from the apocalypse. They’re doing terrible things to our country. I dream of liberation.

It's not the first time our government has taken us for a ride, and it won't be the last. It is however, the first time we've been promised everything just short of cars powered by Dilithium crystals and able to reach warp drive.

Venezuela here we come.

[quote] For reference, there was no rioting when gas prices doubled-to-tripled in the 1970s

In the 1970s the issue was clearly economic warfare waged by OPEC against the US. Then there was no president making war on gasoline and his own citizens with the intent to coerce through the backdoor an unwanted green agenda.

R77 Most of us that drove cars in the 1970s are over 65 now. I don’t recall seeing a lot of elderly folk rioting in the streets about Covid. Many elders also lived during the polio epidemic, when it took about 10 YEARS to get an effective vaccine, not 10 MONTHS. My hope is that younger folks learning they can survive through the serious problems that started in 2020 will help them deal with the next, inevitable serious problem life will throw at them. But I realize it’s not a given.

This is the ME era. People are already ransacking luxury stores and pharmacies. What happens when they can’t afford to drive to work?

The 70’s had hippies, peace, love, communes, carpooling, and politicians that were bipartisan and genuinely interested is solving challenges on both sides of the issue. We live in a much more narcissistic society that would never share a car and push back if you suggested it.

There are simmering class, gender and racial wars going on simultaneously- with media contorting them into a bright narrow kaleidoscope of daily challenges into an echo chamber to enrage each reader- to get attention.

When you go to your car today will you still have a gas tank?

Facto's "liberation" is probably "The Purge."

I ran over an errant sewer grate on the highway with my Volkswagen Beetle, it chipped a hole and it cost $2500 to replace the gas tank.

I should have never sold this...

[quote] For reference, there was no rioting when gas prices doubled-to-tripled in the 1970s; when you could get gas only on even or odd days depending the last digit of your license plate; and when you had to get on line for gas at 4 AM to be sure the pumps weren’t dry by the time you had waited in line for several hours.

Were the oil companies posting never-before-seen profits then?

R90- You never should have bought that car to begin with.

Fiat stands for- Fix It Again Tony!

I filled up my car today and paid $4.89 for regular credit card at a Sunoco station- JEALOUS California Bitches?!

OP = Christina Crawford over reacting.

In the Great American Tradition -- not my problem so I don't care.

I last filled up my Prius in late April and I am retired so ... ohh well.

To the people who said in 2013 "The crash is over. I'm tired of driving a small four door. Let's buy a SUV again!"

I hope you're suffering, assholes!

If I were to drive something gas guzzling I would prefer the Big American Cars of the 1970's- they were far more comfortable and stylish than those shitty SUV's.

I LOVED those Velour interiors- especially in red that Joan Van Ark appears to be luxuriating in.

Gas in LA today was just under $8 everywhere.

You want to know the irony of this whole situation?

BLUE STATES ARE SUFFERING under a DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT.

Red state prices are still low.

But prices in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and New York are off the charts.

That is .... I don't know what that is. But it pisses me the fuck off.

r99, you're falling for the oldest repig trick. Good job.

Meaning what, R100?

Don't try to say that our prices aren't high, because they ARE high.

I was in Las Vegas last week on a hotel shuttle. I'm from a blue state, and some (red state) tourists were also on the shuttle.

They started taking camera phone photos of the gas station prices, because the were shocked.

They said that prices in their red state of Texas were still between $3-$4 per gallon.

Meanwhile, I wasn't shocked at all, because in California, I have gotten used to paying $6 per gallon for months already.

So what exactly am I "falling for," you dumb pile of shit? Should I not believe my eyes, when I'm shelling out $80-$90 to fill up my tank?

While red staters are still paying low prices.

STOP BEING SO MOTHER FUCKING POLITICAL.

This is REALITY. No one is lying here. BLUE STATES ARE PAYING MORE, YOU STUPID CUNT!!!!

r101 = Christina Crawford over reacting.

Truth hurts, R102.

And you hate being told off.

Sex in those 1970's velour seat cars was Outstanding!!

And Gas companies are enjoying some of the greatest profits in their history.

Gouging?

Blue states are paying more because they tax gas more. They actually care about their citizens.

On the other hand Texas’ electrical grid goes out in the middle of winter

^ So, explain to me how taxing your citizens more as they do in the Blue states, is because the 'care about their citizens.' Yes, its true I always feel so cared about when some Fat Cat Bureaucrat is picking my pocket.

For all the blustering about how much better it is to live in a blue state, the truth is that it SUCKS.

Higher prices, higher taxes, more government restrictions and intervention, higher crime, higher rents, higher property prices, higher fucking EVERYTHING.

Do not even try to pretend that life in blue states is better, because it has gotten PROGRESSIVELY (no pun intended) worse!!!

r101/r103/108,

[Quote] If you're acting, you're wasting your time. If you're not, then you're wasting mine.

R108, Try living in RED Texas with its astronomical property taxes, because the state doesn't have a state income tax so they have to make up the difference somehow. It's more expensive living in Texas if you own a home than it is in most blue states.

R110 I'm pretty sure that California's property taxes are higher than those in Texas.

Today gas in LA was 6.09/gallon and I drive to the 3 cheapest stations in my area. Up almost .20 from last week where it was 5.98/gallon. Over $6 is very expensive.

[quote] Over $6 is very expensive.

Debbie Stabenow says fuck you.

A Michigan senator is facing backlash after boasting about the benefit of skipping the pumps in her pricey electric vehicle — which go for more than $56,000 on average — while everyday Americans struggle to pay record-high gas prices.

Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow made the eyebrow-raising comments during a Senate Finance Committee hearing Tuesday while explaining how she was able to breeze past gas stations en route to Washington, DC.

“I drove it from Michigan to here this last weekend and went by every single gas station and it didn’t matter how high it was,” she said.

Surging gas prices have surpassed a whopping $5 per gallon in 13 states — including Michigan — with no sign of slowing down any time soon.

Stabenow’s remarks were blasted as “incredibly out of touch,” “tone death” and “elitist” by users on social media.

One Twitter user joked “Let them buy Teslas!” referring to Marie-Antoinette’s notorious “Let them eat cake!” reply when she was told her starving subjects had no bread to eat.

For R110.This is what one of many data streams say about real estate taxes see link below

[quote]Stabenow’s remarks were blasted as “incredibly out of touch,” “tone death”

Oh, dear!

[quote] A Michigan senator is facing backlash after boasting about the benefit of skipping the pumps in her pricey electric vehicle — which go for more than $56,000 on average — while everyday Americans struggle to pay record-high gas prices.

I'm a Democrat, but this really bugs me about the far left.

They try to force/enforce their beliefs on other people, just as much as the far right.

From the recycling and banning of plastic bags and styrofoam take out containers (which I use all the time), to trying to force people to drive expensive electric cars, to forcing people to wear masks.

And if you don't want to do it, then they don't give a shit, because you're going to do it any way. They are going to legislate you to do it!

I have a real rebellious side, and I absolutely HATE being told what to do. Especially when I don't want to do something.

I'm fine with using plastic utensils and paper bags. They're convenient.

I don't want to drive a goddamned electric vehicle because I can't afford it.

And I hate wearing those stupid fucking masks.

Does it make me a bad Democrat? Maybe. But don't fucking tell me what to do!

Because the more you try to force me to do something, the more I'll resist.

Inb4 some shrieking Karen accuses r116 of being me.

People use cars to 'get away' from things. You can't always just go for a walk or a bike ride, or visit some establishment. But you can always just get behind the wheel and go nowhere in particular.

Especially in these over-packed living situations some people have: family, relatives, friends, animals... no privacy.

That's why so many people are freaking out.

[quote]Because the more you try to force me to do something, the more I'll resist.

Like a petulant child.

Nov.12, 2020 Washington Post caricatured the entire idea of rising prices under Biden as conservative scare-porn

“Conservatives predict gas prices will spike under Biden. Experts say those fears are overblown.”

Being an "expert" means never having to say you're sorry

Helps explain why Biden is so sharply losing blacks and Hispanics

R116, while I fundamentally agree with you, what fucking reason does it matter if you can’t get your takeout in styrofoam or carry your groceries in plastic bags?!

You’d rather consume trace amounts of the chemicals used to make styrofoam and plastic rather than use takeout containers made from cardboard or use paper/reusable bags to carry your groceries? That’s some fucking childish behavior right there. As a conservationist at heart, it pisses me off when I’m in nature and see plastic garbage all around.