Hey Gringo! Gas Hits $7.59 for Regular and $8.50 for Premium

[Dan Druff]

Gas prices are a bit complicated to understand, because there is so much variance within the US, which occurs for a variety of reasons:

- State taxes
- Local taxes
- State environmental requirements
- Remoteness (difficulty to receive supply)
- Opportunistic gouging

The federal government does indeed have some influence on the prices, but only the base prices, and only to a certain extent. Of course, foreign oil prices are what drive a lot of the prices up and down.

However, that's not to let states like California off the hook. They've got a terrible 1-2 punch of high state/local taxes AND crippling environmental regulations which cause higher production costs (which is then passed onto consumers).

A big problem is that California believes it can extract tons of extra money out of gas tax when prices are low, and then the state becomes addicted to the money and can't remove the tax when prices get high. So we end up with situations like right now.

You also shouldn't be too worried by shock pictures of super high prices, as these tend to be at certain outlier stations which set prices outrageously high because people will still pay it. This includes remote or semi-remote tourist destinations, wealthy neighborhoods where the clientele doesn't care that much, etc.

I recommend getting the GasBuddy app, and you can see prices in your area, and find the best stations to frequent.

I mean, not to sound above the commoner, but how fucking poor do you have to be to have an app on your phone to save a dime a gallon? By the time you drove across town you already wasted your profits. Not to mention your time, but if you are hunting for a dime a gallon discount you probably don't give a shit. Funny thing is you know these gas hunters go right into the convenience store and buy a hot dog or a pizza slice.

You don't have to go across town. You use it to get to know the good stations in your area, and then you just go to those regularly when you are nearby.

Also it's good to just quickly survey the stations when you need gas in an unfamiliar place. Obv you don't drive 5 miles down the road for a better gas price, but if they're all within a 0.5 mile radius, you can grab the one which is best.

[tgull]

I mean, not to sound above the commoner, but how fucking poor do you have to be to have an app on your phone to save a dime a gallon? By the time you drove across town you already wasted your profits. Not to mention your time, but if you are hunting for a dime a gallon discount you probably don't give a shit. Funny thing is you know these gas hunters go right into the convenience store and buy a hot dog or a pizza slice.

You don't have to go across town. You use it to get to know the good stations in your area, and then you just go to those regularly when you are nearby.

Also it's good to just quickly survey the stations when you need gas in an unfamiliar place. Obv you don't drive 5 miles down the road for a better gas price, but if they're all within a 0.5 mile radius, you can grab the one which is best.

I guess I am just old school, but I would never consider in my life to make a U-Turn to scrounge an extra nickel a gallon. Even if I were down to my last 50 bucks.

[Walter Sobchak]

Wrong. Being a deadbeat dad is an embarrassment. Biden is not senile.

Biden is senile, and the printing presses helped cause inflation. Not sure why you think everyone here is wrong but you, that’s a really hilarious gimmick tho.

Because you are in fact wrong. If 99 people believe something incorrect and 1 believes something correct, the 1 is still right and the 99 are still wrong.

In 2 years at the very most, inflation will be at the same very low level it was before the pandemic, printing presses or no printing presses.

[Walter Sobchak]

Gas prices are a bit complicated to understand, because there is so much variance within the US, which occurs for a variety of reasons:

- State taxes
- Local taxes
- State environmental requirements
- Remoteness (difficulty to receive supply)
- Opportunistic gouging

The federal government does indeed have some influence on the prices, but only the base prices, and only to a certain extent. Of course, foreign oil prices are what drive a lot of the prices up and down.

However, that's not to let states like California off the hook. They've got a terrible 1-2 punch of high state/local taxes AND crippling environmental regulations which cause higher production costs (which is then passed onto consumers).

A big problem is that California believes it can extract tons of extra money out of gas tax when prices are low, and then the state becomes addicted to the money and can't remove the tax when prices get high. So we end up with situations like right now.

You also shouldn't be too worried by shock pictures of super high prices, as these tend to be at certain outlier stations which set prices outrageously high because people will still pay it. This includes remote or semi-remote tourist destinations, wealthy neighborhoods where the clientele doesn't care that much, etc.

I recommend getting the GasBuddy app, and you can see prices in your area, and find the best stations to frequent.

So you disagree with all the idiots in this thread blaming it on Biden. Nice to see.

[Cerveza Fria]

Biden is senile, and the printing presses helped cause inflation. Not sure why you think everyone here is wrong but you, that’s a really hilarious gimmick tho.

Because you are in fact wrong. If 99 people believe something incorrect and 1 believes something correct, the 1 is still right and the 99 are still wrong.

In 2 years at the very most, inflation will be at the same very low level it was before the pandemic, printing presses or no printing presses.

[cleatus]

there exists better sources for petro info than any of the shit available on tv or the majority of web sites. huge media reports gas $ increases as a crisis only to keep eyes on, never will mention lack of competition amongst a dozen petro giants

or that the the US exports nearly as much petro products as it imports. other media jump at the chance to pin the sitting prez, regardless of party. the huge refining capacity of the gulf coast translates into the export of refined products.

so any report of a lack of supplies driving price up is shit. the refiners sell to highest bidder. if all of south america will pay more for diesel and aviation gas than us, they get the goods. and SA does exactly that. that's global capitalism.

not under the control of a president of any stripe. unless a president nationalizes Occidental Petroleum, Devon Energy, Chesapeake Energy, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Phillips 66, et al. But that would be Chavez socialism or chicom totalitarian.

samples of my sources....global capital will, well, globally churn. relax, nothing ya can do but bitch. just not as loudly as our neighbors or most of the rest of the world.

[Entropy]

It's about equity and saving the planet.
Fyi our newly arrived brothers from Haiti don't have any cars and most white people do, why is that? Systemic racism and white privilege.
To make a long story short the right thing for all white people to do is to donate your car to a person of color and take public transport.
With the money you saved on fuel you can us that to bail a black man out of jail. Only then will you truly be alive.

While you guys are driving around listening to Mozart this is what's happening in the arctic.

It's to bad this isn't from the Hunter Biden Signature Collection, one can dream.

[Sanlmar]

Yo, gas buddy

Words can’t describe how much I love how this is framed. It is not parody. California is going to “fight inflation” by mailing checks to citizens.



Did the black reparations make it through the legislature?

[garrett]

America Printed 10 TRILLION dollars and gave it away to Americans for Free in Stimulus Checks

Donald Trump did that and TWICE printed an absurd amount of paper in a short time and gave it away for free over a flu virus. 10 Trillion dollars being printed and then giving away to everyone in Stimulus meant that had to be paid for eventually, and that is where Inflation comes in here to pay for all that money printed 10 Trillion and in what 2 years well, with that comes rising interest Rates and inflation which we have here and now, because we printed all that money 10 Trillion and in what 2 shorts years that is why actually inflation is now gross, and the way it is. It wasnt this President it was the last one who decided to Print 10 Trillion dollars and give it all away in Stimulus Checks over a Flu Virus, and i wont keep going but THAT is why we have rising inflation, and interest Rates that is how it works. Inflation and interest are build into Money Printing and what we do, and just did. It wasnt this President who decided to Pump our Economy full over paper dollars over a Flu virus makes me sick too, ill stop there.

Trumptard printing the 10 Triillion to fix the fake Flu virus, and now some clever Republicans who just think theyre so smart, and they can jut do it all themselves and need NOT Govt help ever at all, well at this point in my life and for real reasons i hate that and i dont agree with it at all, and for my own reasons im not a Republican. I was raised to be one, but im just not. I need the help and dont mind it, so im different than a real Republican would be anyway so i dont mind that im ok with it.

Have a nice day

[Entropy]

America Printed 10 TRILLION dollars and gave it away to Americans for Free in Stimulus Checks

Donald Trump did that and TWICE printed an absurd amount of paper in a short time and gave it away for free over a flu virus. 10 Trillion dollars being printed and then giving away to everyone in Stimulus meant that had to be paid for eventually, and that is where Inflation comes in here to pay for all that money printed 10 Trillion and in what 2 years well, with that comes rising interest Rates and inflation which we have here and now, because we printed all that money 10 Trillion and in what 2 shorts years that is why actually inflation is now gross, and the way it is. It wasnt this President it was the last one who decided to Print 10 Trillion dollars and give it all away in Stimulus Checks over a Flu Virus, and i wont keep going but THAT is why we have rising inflation, and interest Rates that is how it works. Inflation and interest are build into Money Printing and what we do, and just did. It wasnt this President who decided to Pump our Economy full over paper dollars over a Flu virus makes me sick too, ill stop there.

Trumptard printing the 10 Triillion to fix the fake Flu virus, and now some clever Republicans who just think theyre so smart, and they can jut do it all themselves and need NOT Govt help ever at all, well at this point in my life and for real reasons i hate that and i dont agree with it at all, and for my own reasons im not a Republican. I was raised to be one, but im just not. I need the help and dont mind it, so im different than a real Republican would be anyway so i dont mind that im ok with it.

Have a nice day

This so-called inflation issue is a manufactured crisis. The right wingers can't stand the fact that US taxpayers received a lil chicken scratch that's allocated for billionaires, corporations and the war machine.
Show me the pictures of ordinary American's with wheel barrels of cash or any excessive cash. They don't exist, this pandemic was the largest upward transfer of wealth in the history of mankind. .

This is just some right-wing election strategy that is causing even more damage. The problem isn't that there was a stimulus it's that billionaires and corporations aren't paying their fair share of taxes.
But to be more specific, the root of the problem is that the Federal Reserve exists That's right, it's totally unnecessary.

Btw that Bill Still Federal Reserve documentary has been scrubbed from yt and Bing.

We don't audit the Fed or even the billions sent to Ukraine so you know where that money is going.

Imagine stealing $5 billion and the penalty is a ban from entering the USA. That's a favor not a penalty.

[Daly]

Biden is senile, and the printing presses helped cause inflation. Not sure why you think everyone here is wrong but you, that’s a really hilarious gimmick tho.

Because you are in fact wrong. If 99 people believe something incorrect and 1 believes something correct, the 1 is still right and the 99 are still wrong.

In 2 years at the very most, inflation will be at the same very low level it was before the pandemic, printing presses or no printing presses.

Good fucking Christ.

If only some of us saw this coming.

[The Boz]

South Lake Tahoe currently.