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I think most of Trump's time around here I'd say gas was more like $2.79 than the sub-$2. I complain about the prices, but the reality is if I'm driving 200mi a week, we're talking less than $15 a week more out of my pocket. I notice the higher food prices more than that. I made the argument years ago that if $15 is the difference between living and starvation, you're probably doing something wrong. Of course that always gets whining and complaining because I'm supposedly rich, blah, blah... Except I find most of these whiners have no problem dropping $100 a few nights a week at a bar, or the daily expensive Starbucks, etc. then continue to bitch about their paycheck-to-paycheck living.
That's not to say I don't want it cheaper. There's a big trickle down effect from logistics costs that will raise the prices of almost everything. Then just the reason that prices are up, because of stupid fucking politicians doing stupid things.
Watch the diesel prices. That's going to affect your life a lot more than the price of gas. Diesel goes up, everything else does too.
Because it didn't. Oil barrel was like ~$50 throughout 2019 before covid. It went down like $10 for a few months due to covid, but production was curtailed to meet low demand.
One thing I think covid did cause is a backlog, so now we have more demand catching up on making things than oil production. So it's not entirely Biden's fault, but stopping keystone xl (which would be operational by now) and, more importantly, being weak are big factors; oil price went up under Trump and he tweeted 'opec better produce more OR ELSE' and they did. Biden can't do that.
tru it was still about 3.50 on the high end.
People only went remote en masse in March of 2020; it couldn't possibly explain gas prices for the bulk of the Trump Presidency. That, and though I've not seen hard data, it seems to me a relatively small number of desk-surfers went remote compared to the center-mass of people who actually work for a living, and were never offered the option because it's hard to dig holes or do hot tar roofing remotely. I don't know when in that time period you paid over $3, but it sounds like someone sold you a bridge, rather than this being an accurate remembrance of an actual gas price any time between 2017 and 2021.
I live in a blue state so gas is usually more expensive here.
Under Trump regular was like $3.25 at the highest.
Under Biden it's at $4.40 near me, and if things keep going it will hit $5.
My car takes premium so this shit hits me even harder.
I'd have to see it broken down, region over time then. $3.25 is massively higher than anything I ever saw, and at the time, I lived in a Northeastern Blue State as well.
Other point stands firm: It's not possible to blame "corona" for gas prices being what they were for 3 years before most people ever heard the term.
Hopefully this GasBuddy data is accurate.
Cool tool, thank you.
So the story of gas in America (averagely) is that it started to climb a little from low $2.00 in December of 2020. It hits $3 around March, then staggers from 3 to about $3.20 throughout 2020. Come January 2021, it rises troublingly to around $3.60 by February, and has been a nightmare cliff wall up ever since.
From this, I feel comfortable saying OP's story is basically junk. His narrative is that gas was 3+ during some significant portion of the Trump Presidency (untrue), and that corona lowered gas prices (REMARKABLY untrue).
Nah, this is all what it looks like on its face. As Democrats asserted themselves (as they did from March 2020), and then accelerating with their dominance, gas prices can be safely said to be firmly correlated with those motherfuckers.
What globalists havent told us. We're probably being "sanctioned" too now.
Europe is still using russian fuel because they can't cover the shortfall. So I expect the price per barrel went up there already.