$4.57 here. $3.99 is the George Bush of gas prices. It sucks, but it looks so good compared to where we’re going.
Over here in Spain (where almost everything is pretty much cheap) gas is ~9$usd/gallon Heard a friend in Germany (whom also doesn’t drive (anymore)) say it’s minimum ~11$usd/gallon over there (Edit: we did the math to convert from €eur/Liter to $usd/gal and rounded to closest .50¢ (both were rounded down lol) it’s not average for the entire countries just the two prices for where we live and our friend lives) Anywho it’s gone up that’s for sure but we’re not heavily impacted
Sad thing is he absolutely did do that. Unlike Biden who was blamed for the chaos that came from the pandemic.
Well, Biden did blow up a pipe line that supplied Russian gas to Europe. He also did nothing to improve the horrible situation in Venezuela that Trump started. He actually just doubled down on it.
Not on the level of what Trump has done. But every US president is consistently working to ensure US oligarchs have control of the oil supply. And that doesn’t always mean literally stealing oil. It’s more about control.
Sometimes that brings domestic gas prices down. Sometimes it makes them go up. Sometimes that means blowing up pipelines. Sometimes that means kidnapping a countries elected leader.
The president WANTS domestic gas prices to be low. It helps their approval ratings and party elections. But, the president is subject to the wishes of the oil and war oligarchs. And they are fucking thirsty right now.
Edit: I’ve broken through with a positive upvote (for now) making a comment about Democrats and Bidens failures to combat Trump. I have faith in you Lemmy.
Edit2: Had to brag. Reminded people to downvote.
The price spike under Biden was more the orange kid-diddler’s doing. Threatening to without military funding for Saudi Arabi unless they cut down on oil output during COVID. Which when supply chains were firing back up under Biden they had t ramped production back up yet. Biden got blamed for some he had nothing to do with. Aka the repugnican method.
Bidens biggest failures were not undoing a lot of the things Trump did in his first term.
I think it was a false belief in that the US should remain consistent and not back peddle on bad policies. So, instead of working with Iran to restore the JCPoA (that they continued to abide by via the UN) he continued to push sanctions. Similar situation with Venezuela. Hell, he even kept a lot of Trump’s awful border policy. He absolutely failed in restoring faith in America, on the world stage, after Trump’s first term. He needed to push hard in the opposite direction and have actual material changes that Trump (or any Republican) could not undo again.
Now, one could say this is because they didn’t think they would lose again to Trump. But, that, in itself, was also a major failure for Biden/Harris. They had no major material improvements to point to as an achievement.
Tbh Biden did set himself up for trouble on gas prices specifically. He had that make Saudi Arabia a pariah initiative he was giving speeches on when he first got elected, it was going OK while the US held the cards… but after the Ukraine war started and the supply was reduced, gas prices became a giant glowing weak spot that the Saudis could vengefully mash just in time for mid-terms. Biden recognized the danger then and visited hat in hand to ask for forgiveness and more production, but it was too late after making very public positions and statements that the Saudis REALLY didn’t like at all so the trip didn’t amount to much other than embarassing news articles about him crawling back to the guy he had been calling a murderer.
Hey me too! SoCal for those curious about the price.
Haha is that the picture of trump looking up at the solar eclipse?
I’ve always loved that one. Looking straight into a solar eclipse bare-eyed, proving how much of a genuine fucktard he really is.
You guys life in a tech dystopia with a utopian future sticker plastered in front.
3.99 is cheap. It’s $4.20 where I’m at which is still cheap compared to much of the country
4.99ish where I am, for the last week or so.
I wouldn’t call it lucking out but a couple weeks ago I was hitting the store midday and saw 1 station had jumped to $4.29. a couple blocks later I saw 2 stations still had it at 3.89 so I immediately filled up. Within a couple days it had already jumped to somewhere around 4.50 and days later it’s at 4.99.
Look at this guy not from California!
6.89 the other day
I bought a 100 of these putting up at every gas station I go to.
“Oh damn, gas prices went up so filling a tank went up $10… I know! I’ll blow $100 on useless stickers and still complain about the $10!”
The real issue here is that you think it costs $100 for 100 stickers.
I “blew” 6.00 on stickers and I’m not complaining about anything.
My pack was a buck fifty. 🤷
Good job vandalizing the gas station of someone that just trying to run a business and has to clean up after your safe rebellion. You’re really sticking it to the man there.
thanks. extra stickers for the gas stations that play ads
I saw someone used duct tape on the little vent that houses the speakers on one of these. It actually almost completely blocked out the sound. Whoever did that fucks
safe rebellion.
Oh, should they be throwing Molotovs? That’s probably easier for the attendant to clean up
How’s the air up there?
You say that shit when the Biden stickers were fuckin everywhere?
Yes. It’s all vandalism. It doesn’t matter whose face is on the sticker.
I found one about a month ago, in New Mexico.I don’t think I’ve ever seen 86 octane gasoline 😂
I hadn’t either, until I got out here. I’m used to 87/89/93 or 87/91/93
It’s Joe Barack Hussein Biden’s fault.
Joke’s on you - I can only use Premium.
Same, unfortunately.
rarely the president has as much responsibility for the gas prices
It’s almost like El Taco heard about people trying to explain that the president wasn’t actually capable of affecting gas prices and went “hold my
beerMcD’s”.Also rare for the president to be a convicted felon. Yet this monster found a way.
Probably less rare for them to be a rapist and pedophile but he’s definitely the most publicized at it.
You’re right, I think we’ve finally surpassed Thomas Jefferson at this point, though I suspect TJ’s rape and pedophilia are still mostly danced around when people talk about Sally Hemings (who was 14-16 years old and a peer to his daughter when it began, while Jefferson was in his mid forties).
“If they rise, they rise”
What’s going on with that “unleaded 88” that’s cheaper than regular 87 octane? I’ve never heard of it before.
I think it’s 15% Ethanol. That particular tank was empty.
Ah, that makes sense, although I’m surprised they didn’t call it “E15”. I think in my area they don’t bother with it because regular unleaded is already “up to 10% ethanol” anyway, so it’d only be a 5% difference and that’s not worth taking a slot on the pump.
Pointless too, the cost per gallon “savings” is nullified and then some by the loss of MPG.
They price “premium” above the MPG savings also. It’s a no-win all around for us.
am i to assume whatever e85 is has lead?
whats going on
E-85 as in (up to) 85% ethanol. Gotta subsidize those corn farmers somehow.
No, it has ethanol in it. Not lead. Ethanol is made from corn and it’s subsidized by the government so farmers can sell their excess corn.
im relieved to hear that. odd that they label all of them except the cheapest as “unleaded”.
For whatever reason, all gasoline in the US is labeled unleaded, or maybe disel.
well, except e85 apparently, and thats what encouraged me to ask any questions in the first place. lol :)
The other answers are correct but also for the record, I don’t think you can buy pre-mixed leaded gasoline anywhere in the US (maybe on a private racetrack?). You have to buy the lead and mix it in yourself.
