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.

but nobody in the comments brought up that corona caused gas prices to tank

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.

during corona

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.