BREAKING: Americans are paying the most for gas in 7 years

Fat hurts wrote:

jecht wrote:

I'm curious to see if we'll get to the point of odd-and-even license plates and gas rationing like 1973 and 1979. Can the Millennials and GenYs handle it?

Nope. They will switch to electric.

Gonna be great for towing companies.

Ah...My battery died...

Fat hurts wrote:

I pay zero for gas.

Gasoline is so 20th century.

Get an EV. Electricity is dirt cheap.

How do you think your "dirt cheap" electricity is generated?

runnerboy70 wrote:

Fat hurts wrote:

Nope. They will switch to electric.

Gonna be great for towing companies.

Ah...My battery died...

That never happens. Do you run out of gas often?

Magic 8 ball says wrote:

Fat hurts wrote:

I pay zero for gas.

Gasoline is so 20th century.

Get an EV. Electricity is dirt cheap.

How do you think your "dirt cheap" electricity is generated?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/24/climate/how-electricity-generation-changed-in-your-state.html

More and more, it is made with wind and solar. That's where most of the new generation is coming from.

You pay about 15 cents per mile for gasoline at a gas station. I pay about 2 cents per mile for electricity at home. Sometimes, it's even free when I'm out as they provide free charging to entice me to shop.

Even in West Virginia, which gets virtually all electricity from coal, you have far lower emissions with an EV than with a gas car.

Film Rep wrote:

The Biden voters probably drive electric cars. Electricty rates would be more valuable to them than the cost of gasoline. 🤔

Incredible. Sooooooo, "open up, get back to work, I wanna travel no restrictions, oh and since there is now an incredible increase in demand for things that would allow for people to go back to work and travel we don't want gas prices to rise." JUST AS DUMB as saying I don't want masks, vaccines, restrictions but I also want things to go back to normal.

some sane person wrote:

Film Rep wrote:

Higher energy prices increase the cost of everything you buy.

Correction - higher energy prices encourage people to buy things made locally instead of being made by slaves in China and shipped across the ocean by heavily-polluting cargo ships and then heavily-polluting, road-destroying, dangerous semi trucks.

Higher gas prices are, in the long term, a good thing. If gas was $20/gal we'd see more jobs in America, more jobs evenly distributed across the country instead of only in a handful of places and have cleaner air to breath and safer roads.

Not necessarily. If the base materials are more easily extracted in the country of origin, it would throw your argument out the window. It is far more energy efficient to ship oil from Saudi Arabia than it is to produce shale oil in the US. If you look at produce, it is far more efficient to grow produce in irrigated deserts in California than most other areas of the country and ship it (which is why it is cheaper).

Film Rep wrote:

The Biden voters probably drive electric cars. Electricty rates would be more valuable to them than the cost of gasoline. 🤔

Bwahahaha! Looky what happened. A dumb@ss thought he could spout his dumb@ss ideas and that people would all pat him on the back. Hilarious that you are being ripped on as being the dumb@ss that you are.

pumpkin shaped rear wrote:

Honestly I voted for him but what a mistake. f**k the prez

I call BS. No way you voted for Biden and now think you should have voted for Trump.

X-Runner wrote:

Prices go up.

Americans are paying the most ever for everything pretty much every year.

Gas is still something right now that is historically cheap.

We've been talking about $5 gas forever.

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3948102#3948185

This is what I don't understand. When I first started driving in 2006 gas was $4 a gallon and that is a lot for a teenager to pay.

It is less NOW than it was in 2006 so everyone whining can stfu

Gas prices in USA need to go up AT LEAST double. Also please stop printing money as you please, it's time for you guys to start living by your means.

V6 and V8 my ass. Get yourself a 2L engine and drive like everybody else in the world.

Sopa de SabadelI wrote:

Gas prices in USA need to go up AT LEAST double. Also please stop printing money as you please, it's time for you guys to start living by your means.

V6 and V8 my ass. Get yourself a 2L engine and drive like everybody else in the world.

The elite wine & expensive cheese crowd advocate for double gas prices. Simply causing economic pain to working people without offering the policy changes which could offset some of that pain is cruel. All U.S. cities greater than 1/2 million in population should have light rail &/or a great subway system. All cities in U.S. greater than 1/2 million in population should be connected by high speed hydrail. U.S. is a large nation. Until there is a great rail system connecting U.S. cities, U.S. citizens need autos with V-6 & V-8 engines. High speed hydrail should offer competition to flying and driving 375 to 750 miles.

Myth of U.S. overly printing money. If you are not a U.S. citizen, you should love it that your nation's so-called strong currency allows you to buy acres of cheap real estate in U.S. Oh! You are not doing that? You are the simply repeating someone's talking points.

Sopa de SabadelI wrote:

Gas prices in USA need to go up AT LEAST double. Also please stop printing money as you please, it's time for you guys to start living by your means.

V6 and V8 my ass. Get yourself a 2L engine and drive like everybody else in the world.

The USA is the top oil producer in the world, in case you didnt know. If anything, gas prices should be cut in half in the USA. Let the non oil producing countries, such as the majority of countries in Europe, pay quadruple.

Fat hurts wrote:

Even in West Virginia, which gets virtually all electricity from coal, you have far lower emissions with an EV than with a gas car.

Are you counting the mining and transport of the Lithium to produce all of those batteries in your EV? May not be quite as environmentally sound as you think.

Gas prices have a long way to go before it becomes a real issue in the US. I love my in-line 6 cylinder turbo with 444HP and a manual transmission. These 600+ HP EVs are pointless in the real world (as far as driving pleasure goes). 0 - jail in 4 seconds.

Fat hurts wrote:

Clown World Resident wrote:

Progressives' GOAL is higher gas prices. That's why they closed down that pipeline. It might have been only one, but the goal was literally to destroy supply and make prices go up. If they could, they'd close all of the pipelines, they just haven't duped Biden into it (yet).

Don't believe me, scroll above.

I'm a progressive and I sort of agree. Higher gas prices means more people wake up and switch to electric.

You will thank me later as you wonder why you ever put up with the cost and hassle of owning a clunky gas powered car.

But the GOAL is to clean up the air and save humanity from the climate crisis. We really need to outlaw fossil fuels altogether.

Fat Hurts,

I'm on board with eventually everyone going to electric vehicles, and of course that will ultimately happen, but calling gas-powered cars "clunky" is a bit much. As I mentioned to you in another thread, I recently bought a 2022 Hyundai Kona AWD (gas powered), and that thing is anything but clunky (yes, I realize any electric car will beat it off the line, but I couldn't care less about that). I DO think that's the last gas-powered car I will ever buy.

Jogger262 wrote:

Fat hurts wrote:

Even in West Virginia, which gets virtually all electricity from coal, you have far lower emissions with an EV than with a gas car.

Are you counting the mining and transport of the Lithium to produce all of those batteries in your EV? May not be quite as environmentally sound as you think.

Gas prices have a long way to go before it becomes a real issue in the US. I love my in-line 6 cylinder turbo with 444HP and a manual transmission. These 600+ HP EVs are pointless in the real world (as far as driving pleasure goes). 0 - jail in 4 seconds.

The lithium is an issue. NO solution is without some big hurdles.

Growbatina wrote:

Film Rep wrote:

The Biden voters probably drive electric cars. Electricty rates would be more valuable to them than the cost of gasoline. 🤔

Bwahahaha! Looky what happened. A dumb@ss thought he could spout his dumb@ss ideas and that people would all pat him on the back. Hilarious that you are being ripped on as being the dumb@ss that you are.

Me thinks you are the dumb ass. 🤔

Film Rep wrote:

Growbatina wrote:

Bwahahaha! Looky what happened. A dumb@ss thought he could spout his dumb@ss ideas and that people would all pat him on the back. Hilarious that you are being ripped on as being the dumb@ss that you are.

Me thinks you are the dumb ass. 🤔

Yeah but you got "ripped" by all 12 of Harambe2600Gina69's alt accounts.

Gas prices will start coming down very quickly in about 6 months. The US rig count is currently at 528. In the summer of 2020, it bottomed out at an all time low of 255. Most US production is dependent on fracing, slant drilling and other enhanced recovery techniques. It takes a lot of time to get these rigs back into operation. It is not like an oil field in Saudi Arabia where they just stick a pipe in the ground and oil gushes out. Those rigs can pretty easily be turned on and off.

Before COVID, the US rig count was up over 1,000. Before the Saudis were flooding the market with oil to try to protect their market share, the US rig count was up to 1,900.

Ironically, the Saudi are currently keeping prices high by keeping production steady. High prices will just help the US producers get back to work faster. Absent some giant economic crisis, I would bet that the Saudis will be flooding the market with oil again in about a year or two once US production fully rebounds.

Long story short, gas prices are not going to stay high for very long. Pipelines have nothing to do with it. It just takes time to restart production in the US.

Magic 8 ball says wrote:

Sopa de SabadelI wrote:

Gas prices in USA need to go up AT LEAST double. Also please stop printing money as you please, it's time for you guys to start living by your means.

V6 and V8 my ass. Get yourself a 2L engine and drive like everybody else in the world.

The USA is the top oil producer in the world, in case you didnt know. If anything, gas prices should be cut in half in the USA. Let the non oil producing countries, such as the majority of countries in Europe, pay quadruple.

The oil itself costs almost nothing, as it is found in the ground. Now the cost should be defined by what it does to the planet once it burns, here in Europe we have something called "co2 tax".

BTW, here in Europe we do not buy oil from the USA.

Most people in the world should be travelling by a well built public transportation infrastructure and only travel by car for transporting cargo purposes.

Driving your kids to school with a V8 Escalade has no future. Also, get yourself a Mercedes Sprinter instead of a Ford Ranger and you will pay less for gas, even if it would cost double.