National average hit $4.02, according to AAA data, capping an extraordinary rise from $2.98 just a month ago
Average US fuel prices have crossed $4 a gallon for the first time in four years, piling pressure on drivers as Donald Trump’s war on Iran continues to boost oil markets.
The nationwide average climbed to almost $4.02 on Tuesday, according to AAA data, capping an extraordinary rise from $2.98 just a month ago. The fuel price last reached this high in August 2022.
On the west coast, many drivers filling up cars and trucks are grappling with prices far higher than the US average. In California, the average is $5.89 a gallon; in Washington state, the average is $5.35.
So what exactly are Republicans selling?
The economy? No.
Consumer prices? No.
Employment figures. No.
Avoiding war (Trump specific). No.
Tax cuts? Not in my case. Your experience may vary.
What is this, 2002 again?
Headlines:
“Hey we attacked the Middle East again TOTALLY FOR MORAL REASONS against the dictator our intelligence agencies propped up in like the 80’s!”
“Pain at the pump. More at 11.”
Its around $5.50 USD/gal where I am in Canada right now. Diesel is even more.
Always shocking how low American gas prices are, Im in the “oil rich” part of Canada and $4/gal would be extremely cheap gas here.
Its because taxes on gas, the united states has really low taxes on gas, in Canada you pay about 1.20 in taxes per gallon while in the united states it’s about 30-50 cents a gallon.
Those prices are not returning to what we had before the MAGA fucknuts went ahead with their stupidity. The damaged refineries will not return to normal operations for several years. This could be a big win for the EV, renewable energy and just maybe…the USA will wake the fuck up and build a decent public transportation network with high-speed rail.
You say that, it’s a big win for Exxon and Chevron and the like. They will make sure the Renewables get the shaft.
Trump “I did that!” sticker makers love this
I have been saying, where the heck are those?! First he comes for your groceries, then the gas.
MAGAs who can barely afford to drive to work: “It’s the least we can do to help Daddy Donald defeat Islam!”
Cucks.
I take back what I said in 2020. Turns out the president can control gas prices. Bombing an oil-significant country does that effectively.
Lots of people can make prices go up. It’s much harder to bring them down.
Lots of people can make prices go up.
Let’s find some that can do that for wages and we’ll have a real wizard on our hands!!
Oh no, my enormous air-conditioned living room on wheels is costing me marginally more to drive from a place I don’t want to be to a place I don’t need to be!
Less than half as much as we pay here.
Think about this for one second. The fact that people have to spend an extra dollar per gallon of gas and it is that impactful to their finances should be the bigger story. How fucked are most people they can’t absorb an extra $50 or so per month for gas increases?
It’s not the gas prices, it’s how strapped the American people are. That’s the story.
Anything to bleed out the poor people who finally made money with the upturn of the economy last year. The goal is to bankrupt us for life and I’m not joking. People here really must be stupid or pussies if they don’t see that as a direct threat to their safety and lively hood.
The bigger story is that modern western societies still require most people to regularly interact with gasoline or diesel. If you think about it, regularly purchasing and burning toxic, polluting fossil juice just to get around is super fucked up.
These fucks will complain about it but never blame trump. They’re incapable.
He’s just breaking our dependence on oil, he’s a green party infiltrator.
Imagine if I could afford an EV for the 45 minute-by-freeway commute to my job that strangely doesn’t suck.
…An EV that’s not a swastikar… they’re freaking everywhere out here. Disposable appliances on wheels.
… I’m not saying anything in particular here except that we’re just kinda backed into a corner AGAIN without a viable alternative.
Mass transit requires good zoning laws. Government creates problems…
If we look at the long term effect, assuming the United States is still standing, yeah probably. If we look at his intentions, lol couldn’t be more opposed to reduced reliance on oil
Except donnie dumbass has been waging war on EV, solar, and wind, too.
Yeah but sending the world into a global recession… all because its reliance on oil… only really says hey maybe this whole oil thing is stupid to the normal people of the world…
We can get basically free energy from the sun and other technologies? Why are we doing this again…
But then I remember covid… and yeah people are just dumb
Where are the “I did that” Trump stickers?
My FIL has been putting them up all over. He also uses super glue to affix them.
someone will have to remove it, regardless of their political opinions, and it won’t be someone like Donald Trump
Well, they don’t have to remove them.
Also, lots of redcap dumbasses will get to LOOK at them first. :)
Oh, I love this.
He puts them on the back of road signs too. It’s great.
working on it
They passed out a ton of them at the No Kings protest in San Diego. I only took one, after the first, I told the people that I have an ebike and an EV, so I haven’t been to the pump in years.
I would assume they were mass distributed, just like the 3D printed whistles they were handing out.
put it next to some really terrible graffiti like a snake that’s drawn drawn all crooked
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Oh no the poor Americans, how will they survive paying slightly above a third what we pay here? Denmark and I suppose most of Europe, except the countries where it’s more expensive and Americans pay less than a third.
USA is an immoral country, that has failed to tax fossil fuels since the 70’s to limit the use of them.
Americans should be ashamed of themselves for the level of CO2 per capita USA is producing. Which is twice than what it is for EU and China.I hope a lot of Americans fail payments on their gas guzzling SUV over this.
In the US gas companies are subsidized to keep prices down. We pay in tax dollars in other ways, whether we drive or not. This impacts regular gas, but also groceries and other goods traveling across the country bigger than the entirety of Europe.
Also outside of a few cities, there’s very little public transit.
Part of the reason that there’s little public transport is that gas is subsidized
Not really. If gas subsidies stopped, public transit isn’t going to just pop up. It would require a complete overhaul of the entire geographic placement of buildings and zoning rules.
Trillions of dollars over many years would have to be spent to make the US like the EU. Not just on infrastructure but also on businesses. There’d have to be incentives to open a grocery store in walking distance when box stores still exist. Thousands of people would be required to open a small business or manage a store.
In reality, if gas subsidies stopped the cost of everything would just increase astronomically. The US was developing when cars were becoming more popular. It’s too far gone.
Yup. Doesn’t matter what you do to gas, the US seems to hate public transportation. We each need our own bus to drive around. It’s infuriating. I would love to take public transportation. But it simply doesn’t exist in most of this country. We have to have a vehicle to get around, and I’m sick of it.
I reslly like that framing device, “we each need our own bus to drive around”, going to adopt that line in my arguments against car brained people
The US was developing when cars were becoming more popular. It’s too far gone.
This is misinformation. US cities were built with extensive streetcar networks, so much so that the first suburbs were called “streetcar suburbs.” They were ripped out because of the misguided notion that they needed to be profitable (a double standard that only applied to rails and not roads, BTW).
They also had vibrant, dense, walkable downtowns, which were demolished circa the 1970s to “make room” for parking lots for car commuters.
Do not try to pretend that that was inevitable or irreparable, because it’s not. European cities, like Amsterdam, were also demolished in the middle of the 20th century, and guess what, they were rebuilt for the car too! But unlike us, the folks in the Netherlands realized their mistake and demolished and rebuilt again to put back the the infrastructure you see there today.
We can fix car dependency.
Im not saying turning them off would suddenly create a walkable paradise. But they do continue to create inertia from pushing for change.
bigger than the entirety of Europe.
That’s completely irrelevant, yet Americans keep using that argument.
USA consist of 50 states, the distance of transport is determined by whether it’s profitable, with higher gas prices, the longer transportation would increase prices on groceries from further away, and stimulate more local production.
Building more train transportation would also lower CO2, but USA is doing none of the things that could help.
In Europe Sweden has probably the longest transports in Europe, yet their CO2 is almost half (3.43) the average of EU (6.276), with USA (21.03) at more than triple the EU average!!Europe has worked way harder than USA since the 70’s to reduce unsustainable use of fossil fuels, the enormous difference now is because of half a century of failed policies of USA to do the same.
For instance on solar USA has less than EU, despite USA has way better conditions for solar than EU has.Why are Americans keeping making excuses for the inexcusable?
USA is a shit country endangering the entire globe with their irresponsible CO2 emissions.
Its easy to not be car centric when you have proper public transportation infrastructure and multiple countries are within 30 minutes of driving to one another. Here some people drive 2 hours everyday just to get to work.
This. It’s not like the individuals often have much of a choice. If you want to eat, you need a job. If you want a job, you typically need a car.
Its easy to not be car centric when you have proper public transportation infrastructure
You are making an Argument from ignorance, because I know all about that.
2 of my neighbors do the same, and they switched to electric a few years back.
Here we have subscription for charging all you want for the equivalent to $99 per month. Where diesel would run up to $450+ for one and a whopping $900 for the other.
Difference is that one doesn’t drive every day, while the other drives to Copenhagen every day. 1½ hours of driving each way, so that’s 3 hours per day!!If you have to travel 2 hours per day to work, you should obviously consider an economic car. And you should absolutely consider an EV.
We also live in a rural area where we 100% depend on cars, because there is next to no public transit. So why don’t you just wake up? Instead of whining about how much more difficult it is for Americans to protect the environment.We bought an EV last year on a small budget for $32000 , so we too are not impacted directly by higher gas prices.
USA is a shitty selfish country with shitty laws, that has done less than all its peers for the environment for half a century now.
It’s disgusting that your ignorant post is upvoted.Its disgusting that I’m telling you that we don’t have good public transportation and have to use our cars more than most people in Europe do?
And in good old freedom land they don’t let us buy the same electric vehicles you have access too. There’s even models of vehicles that run on diesel that get exceptional mileage per gallon (also don’t you guys measure it in litres?) And they won’t let us buy those cars here. Don’t believe me? Search it up on DuckDuckGo. A lot of the best electric vehicles are the same way they have import duties and crap they add to it that the only electric vehicles you can really afford here are Teslas and I’m not going to burn alive in my car with my children.
Another thing, I just drove 9 hours to get back to my state from an out of state work call, guess how many electric charging stations were on the route back? Can you guess? I bet you can, because there weren’t any it was through rural areas that don’t have any of that. There MAY have been one if i went 30 mins out of the way of the route but it wouldn’t have been enough charge to make the trip like that. Making me dependant on a gas vehicle. Sure in YOUR rural areas they decide to throw money at it and put electronic charging stations in but not here. I thought you mentioned how selfish USA was, and you’re surprised they don’t have a charging station on the highways or nice subscription plans for $100 a month that let you charge unlimitedly?
But hey if you can pull strings lmk I’d love to take the train and it not take 6 days to travel two States away here. That would be lovely.
Its “disgusting” that you blame citizens for shit we have zero control over. I’ve written my representatives many times, it doesn’t do any good. I don’t have enough capital to make them start building better infrastructure I can’t make them do it and they don’t listen to us anyway.
Its disgusting that I’m telling you that we don’t have good public transportation and have to use our cars more than most people in Europe do?
No it’s disgusting that you make it sound like an excuse for not driving more efficient cars.
guess how many electric charging stations were on the route back? Can you guess? I bet you can, because there weren’t any
Which is exactly my point, USA is failing on infrastructure, and has been for half a century. Together with everything else that could curb CO2.
OK as an individual right now maybe you can’t do much, the problem is not you as an individual, but the mentality of the US population as a whole.
Because your government hates you and doesn’t give a shit about public transportation. Americans aren’t victims of anything they didn’t cause themselves.
I forget about the meeting I was in where I decided for it to be that way.
You’re right our government hates us.
We didn’t cause this. We live in an oligarchy. The same way you didn’t cause it if good public transportation exists where you live. Spot on with our government hating us though - goes double for anyone brown or with boobs
These were decisions made nearly a century ago, in the New Deal era. That’s when the foundations for the “Suburban Experiment” were laid. That’s when the FHA was founded and created its first set of guidelines for developers to get loan approval, which “redlined” traditionally-developed areas and gave extreme preference to car-centric designs, like strip malls and cul-de-sac neighborhoods.
👆why are you booing him? He’s right!
There is nothing – not “being a large country,” not “being built for the car” – that makes the US somehow inherently car-centric. We chose this by being too fucking racist and classist to accept living near or riding transit with black and poor people.
There’s a reason why things like single-family zoning laws with large minimum lot sizes started popping up right after laws enforcing segregation got struck down, for example.
I chuckled a bit when seeing this headline. “Really? 4usd per usg? So cheap. That’s what all this fuel crisis is about?”
Americans should be ashamed of themselves for the level of CO2 per capita USA is producing. Which is twice than what it is for EU and China.
It is nearly tripple that of the EU. The gap is growing in both directions by the way.
I don’t doubt double or triple but you have a source on that?
Quick someone find the sticker
