I paid $8.75/gallon for gas in France

There were more permits issued in Biden's first year than in 2017 (Trump's first year).

Keystone XL would not have been operational for years, therefore it would have had no effect on today's prices because it wouldn't have increased capacity in 2022

Also, the Key Stone pipeline would help with the transportation of crude oil, not the refinement into gasoline. Transportation and distribution accounts for a whopping 15–20% of the price of gasoline. Now take a step back and realize it's a global economy. Being super generous, the pipeline would have lowered the price of gas by a few percentage points.

Anyone who asks that question in 2022 is either asking in bad faith or exists in utter ignorance of the world around them.

Figure it out.

He is very powerful, that Biden.

Ha, I was in France last week too. I saw the same things including especially the young people smoking and the gas prices. I didn't rent a car though.

I guarantee you the OP knows nothing about Nordstream 2 and Joe Biden's role in it. 90% of the country doesn't know about it because the media refuses to report it because it would show democrats worry more about the world than the welfare of Americans. There are 71 other countries with gas cheaper than we do. As a major oil/gas producer, we should be lower. People post misleading charts on social media about other countries being higher but those countries choose not to drill. The US has no excuse, save for a sorry excuse of a president.

Oil was like $130/barrel in 2008 and gas around here never broke $3.50. Oil is less than that now ($115) and we're paying $5.25 per gallon here.

Has nothing to do with presidents and everything to do with price gouging.

Why are people obsessed with how much it costs to fill up a vehicle? Maybe the Skoda just had a smaller tank than the BMW.

Aww, your media told you what to believe. That's cute.
I am never surprised with libs. They claim to be the smartest people and question everything good but totally deep throat everything the media tells them and never question that.

The high gas prices are not Biden's fault, it's a combination of Trump, Covid and Ukraine War. Biden has no directive to tell private companies what to do, Oil companies in the US are not owned by the Government.

Trump negotiated with the Saudi's to increase production and everyone thought the Saudi's were out negotiated, but in reality what Trump did has been done several times before and so far 100% of the time it results in much higher prices further down the road.

When the prices dropped after the deal, the it became too costly for much of the US and Canadian production as its much less efficient than drilling for Saudi oil, so existing wells dried up and new ones were not started because it wasn't profitable.

Then Covid hit and less people were working in the oil fields and few if any new wells were started due to not enough people. Then the Ukraine war started and the Oil companies are using that as reason to mask why the oil prices are high and at the same time they are sitting on over 9000 drilling leases in the US (have to love the dragon ball z coincidence) and they are refusing to drill. The oil companies are making up for all the years of lost profits when the Trump negotiations cratered their revenue and profits. Why would they drill for more oil when driving is not slowing down in any significant amount in the US and people are still filling up their tanks. They are going to maximize their gains for the stockholders as long as they can.

It takes as long as 18 months to get a new oil well online, so whenever they do decide to start drilling again, we are still 1.5 year away from any relief.

We need mass production of EVs from several companies immediately because gas prices are going to stay high for a long time because the money is too good to pass up from the oil companies.

We should limit how much refined fuel we export and force domestically sold gas to be at least 80% or more from domestically produced oil.

The US once had such tests and Democrats instituted them to suppress black voters.

Or use dollars!

So when oil prices drop you would be okay with oil companies keeping gas prices high and collecting a lot of revenue. Good to know...

And the oil price dropped very quickly too.

If it is price gouging then it seems like a company would say: I will lower the price by 5 cents/gallon and will be making a fortune as everyone will line up to buy my gas.

nytimes.com

Why Gas Prices Are So High

By Ella Koeze and Clifford Krauss

How much people pay for gas is the result of trading on a sprawling international market. Like many other facets of the global economy, it comes down to a matter of supply and demand.

Open link

An interesting piece is the comment that oil companies are transitioning away from fossil fuels so are less interested in investing in refining capacity. Well this is just what so many watermelons wanted.

Why is there an ongoing discussion about who is to blame for high gas prices when there was a potentially burgeoning discussion about French girls? Can we continue with the French girls talk? Is it true that French babes don't shave their pits?

$8.46 a gallon here in Canberra Australia. For some reason the US thinks it is only tough there. Gas is expensive everywhere. Inflation is here as well.

Thank you!!

Totally agree, more on the French ladies please!!!

Were they receptive to an American?

I hope you’re trolling, but sadly I’ll just assume you’re dumb.

the more expensive gas/diesel is, the less we’ll use it. It’s like whale oil- it was a great fuel/light source, but petroleum and coal was cheaper and easier to get, refine, and distribute.

Innovation tends to happen most quickly when prices soar or there’s a shortage and substitutes must be found. We’ll innovate EV’s, or maybe even pressure the automotive and oil industries to allow better mpg vehicle engines to exist.
Its not difficult to make autos that get much better miles per gallon than what we have today, it’s just that those efforts have been squashed for decades.