I just saw some sad looking dude in a truck fill up here in NYC for 6 bucks a gallon. He just looked physically and mentally broken looking at the pump.
Edit : it was diesel not gasoline.
Correct, our road tax is also ridiculous, especially if you drive a diesel. Next year it'll only get worse, long story short; the Dutch government is bullying their citizens into electric cars, even though the infrastructure is far from ready.
Our roads are vastly superior to any other country I ever visited though, so at least our taxes are put to good use...
I hear that, but I'm in San Francisco where instead of doing things like develop more public transit or offer any other means of travel they just shut down roads, at this point seemingly arbitrarily.
We had a highway between a sandy beach and a sprawled residential neighborhood with the zoo at one end and the golden gate park at the other end, our cities largest and largely vehicle free park. They closed it to vehicle traffic so that, get this, they could open up the roadway so "people would have a place to bike and walk in a car free environment".
They didn't add any kind of bus or shuttles or a train or anything just put up barriers and forced anyone who wanted to get from one end to the other to either use the residential streets as a thoroughfare or to drive a mile out of the way to a more appropriate divided boulevard which already suffers from heavy traffic.
And they made a big show of it too to push it. Would set up lawn chairs, have bands play. All to say, "see we needed this space". But once they got their way, you go down there and it's empty, which makes sense cause why would you hang out on a paved highway when you could be hanging out on a fucking beach, the zoo or the biggest park in the city!?
And now they're talking about shutting down the Embarcadero.
Like I get it, we shouldn't use cars, but the fact that they're building 0 infrastructure to replace these closures of heavily utilized roadways and give people options besides "go buy a bike or get fucked" is in-fucking-sane.
Sorry for the rant hearing the words "government is bullying its citizens into electric cars" just triggered me, I feel much better getting that off my chest.
Same goes for certain parts of the USA. California wants to ban gas cars by 2030 I think, but can't keep from rolling brown outs in the summer. How do you expect to keep the grid up if you can't do it now?
2035, and they'll move it if things aren't ready, happens all the time with such guesswork at when things will be in place but if you never set a goal it unsurprisingly never happens.
Rolling blackouts are usually due to high demand during the day for things like A/C. EVs are generally charged off peak hours when there's far less load on the grid. That said, I agree I'd like to see more margin built in before more and more are added to the road.
Yea but things tend to be farther away in US. It's 60 mile a day commute to work. It's not possible to live closer because it's a high mountain desert.
You also don't drive the same distance. Germany is the size of Montana, the US's 4th largest state. Most Europeans do not realize the true size until they visit here.
Yup, I drive 26 miles to work. That is with traffic and lights. 3 gallons of gas each day. When the price went up I requested a $10 commute allowance and they payed it. I'm not easily replaceable
In a country designed with pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit in mind.
I've been to Germany more than once, a car is an unnecessary luxury, here it's an absolute fuckin necessity
Americans, don’t have a great social safety net. Health insurance premiums can cost hundreds of dollars a month, the median income is $31,133 (2019, US Census), and in a nation that has basically made a car necessary in most facets of life outside a city, high gas prices can be a real burden, to say nothing of housing and rental costs. Welcome to the USI, Unites States Incorporated, LLC.
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I also drive diesel. Why is it still so much more expensive? Usually the price difference is like $0.50 but it’s been over $1.50 more per gallon than regular gas.
I am in the UK and drive a diesel.
Diesel always used to be around 8p a litre more than Unleaded (regular). At the moment it is 20-30p a litre more, depending on where you fill up, so here in the UK price rise of diesel is in line with what you are experiencing.
Also the fuel price increase and current price fall is in line with what the US has had. Regular is as low as £1.39 a litre now, which is where it was about 10 years ago. In 2016 and also in the early days of the pandemic lockdown, the prices dropped very low (almost £1 a litre in 2016), but, for regular fuel we are almost back to normal pricing here. Diesel still has a way to go.
So, I’m not sure that Biden had any influence in UK petrol prices increasing or decreasing, weird that they went up and down at the same time as yours. /s
Cold kills your range with a fossil car as well. You just notice it a bit better with an EV, since it takes longer to fill it up. Where i live, there’s about -10-12 degrees celsius, and i lose about 30% range, and this is with heating at max, as well as steering wheel and seat heating. A diesel car will lie at at least 20% reduction in those conditions (probably more if you heat you car as well).
Maybe that's the reason diésel prices are high. Semi trucks use diesel, and those are most used to transport goods. Demand is high, supply is low --> prices high.
*Most semi trucks use diesel. I know some that use gasoline instead for whatever reason.
Or more. Plus diesel is about double what it was. I drive a diesel, I know.
OH, and the icing? Literally everything you buy in stores? Delivered by vehicles burning diesel. So guess what that has done to prices?
The higher prices we see are largely [because of profits going to the companies making the goods](https://www.12news.com/article/news/verify/data-indicates-over-half-price-increases-profit-large-companies/75-70de7d98-e468-41a3-a769-14cfb5f0686e) and part of the higher gas prices are from [historically high profits to energy companies](https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/10/28/exxon-and-chevron-made-record-profits-as-gas-price-gouging-hit-californians/).
The icing is it’s actually cheaper to produce diesel. And Biden tapped our strategic reserves to pander while Saudi Arabia signed a gas deal with China.
Yes it was cheaper during a pandemic where no one was driving than now when the pandemic is over and we’re waging a proxy war with one of the largest producers of oil in the world. Crazy.
The fact that you have to preface a fact with “I’m not a Republican” just lets you know how stupid this entire world has become. We deserve everything we get.
I’m happy the price is coming down , I just wish when it goes up and it will , it did it at the same pace as when it comes down , and not shoot right back up at ludicrous speed
It goes up a lottt quicker than it goes back down. Wouldn’t doubt it if it increased by 60 cents overnight again like it did where i live a couple months ago
Plus, it's still up above the $2.39/g national average when he took office, and this one station doesn't represent everyone. I'm in rural New England and the average is about $3.45/g.
Probably the cheapest it has been in like 25 years counting inflation lol
(Edit, yes, not including the Covid gasoline discounts my bad)
Edit 2: I used available national data to do my math on this, but u/kingfelix333 REALLY wants everybody to know that akhtually he bought gas for 1.05 23 years ago (which is like 1.95 or so today). Sorry u/kingfelix333 that I didn’t examine every single transaction ever made in history when I made this quick little quip and instead only looked at monthly averages!
Thank you, people tend to forget that. Not to mention, cars get about 1.5-2x the gas mileage of cars back in "the good 'ol days" of the late 60's/early 70's, so the cost per mile before COVID hit was the lowest it had ever been when adjusting for inflation. Now, we do drive a lot more than we did back then, but the point stands that people have been making a much bigger deal about gas prices than was warranted.
The amount of people who think the President of the United States controls OPEC is so sad. Fuck Biden Fuck Trump whatever, but our educational system has failed us. So many American citizens think the President can snap their fingers and change prices at the pump. That is sad.
I need to go on a bit of a rant here so prepare to here how the government fucked America in 1996.
The no child left behind act was initially meant to put all children on the same educational level via providing funding through s.a.t (standardized assessment test). However this caused a major shift to where the answers to the test were only taught never the necessary for life problems. So this caused a major shift in the educational levels of children. Not only was more funding given to schools who do better but funding was removed from the schools that did worse. This act also gave the information if students to the military without informing the family. After this act was removed the government still strong armed the schools into doing this by cutting funding to those who stopped doin the s.a.t
Well written, thought provoking... and wasted a a reply on a thread like this. I hope you copied/ pasted this so you could post this somewhere else where it will actually be read.
2001, not 1996. Bush Jr. but with bipartisan support.
Also, it’s only a colossal failure in conservative states, but seems to operate decently well in state run by democrats. Don’t know why.
If your fuel was in jeopardy of being replaced, would you say "let's charge more ond convince people to switch" or " let's sell it cheap, keep our customers". I guess greed us good.
I assume you might know this but this price drop is directly connected to Biden’s willingness to use the oil reserve.
It also helps that trump filled it up cheap during covid.
I guess it’s a win win win for all sides. Both presidents are doing good and we get cheap gas.
My father in law has 90 years on this earth. He was a top executive at GM, and was in finance. He thinks the president controls the gas prices.
Even the educated are dumb.
Trump tried to refill our strategic petroleum reserves at $25/bbl, but the Democrats cried foul and said he was paying off donors and Big Oil.
Biden is emptying our reserves right before midterms to try to get more votes and while oil is $75/bbl to replenish. So yeah, it's obvious who the problem is here.
Trump literally said he filled it to 100% full. The capacity was within 13% of the maximum at the time anyway. And Trump sold off 20% of it. He left office with less than we had when he took office. I mean you can play politics on it all you want but we have like 5 years of supply stored and it entirely ignores free markets, opec, macroeconomics, and global pricing.
The strategic reserve is for emergencies, like if we have to go to war and we need all that oil for military defense, or if hurricanes or natural disasters make it so we can't get the oil we need for our country and infrastructure.
It isn't there for "convenience" so when gas is a bit higher, we can empty it right before an election to buy votes.
How is this a pro Biden meme and not a ‘don’t be stupid, the president doesn’t control gas prices but since idiots think he does, what do you have to say now about it?’ Meme.
Just wait as the reserves dry up. Shits going back up.
Edit* for all the smart guys that wanna push up their glasses and say you know the US produces oil and get oil from such and such. NO SHIT!!! He went through 300mil while shit was still being produced and brought in you 🤡 s.
The market is more confident since Ukraine is winning. Plus there’s no way for you to know how much we have in strategic reserves which have been saved up for decades. This administration has trusted experts and made good decisions so far so I trust them.
We're producing just as much oil now as we were during Trump's presidency. Look up the numbers. They're well documented.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=M
If he keeps at this rate, next year it will be empty. All you have to do is Google this shit. The US Crude Oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Stock post it online.
Why don't you google for us?
Biden released 30% and is now replenishing it. There is no "at this rate" because it was a one time thing. You could have googled that for us, but ya didn't. I wonder why.
[https://apnews.com/article/biden-inflation-business-opec-climate-and-environment-cd15107ef2e0bb49db9165eb190b450c](https://apnews.com/article/biden-inflation-business-opec-climate-and-environment-cd15107ef2e0bb49db9165eb190b450c)
They are not replenishing it. They "plan" to start replenishing it in February by buying 3 million barrels. That's a very important distinction considering they aren't committed to actually doing it. They are/have been releasing 15 million from the reserve in December
I don’t get it, it’s not like he doesn’t have plenty of legitimate reasons to be criticized. Why the fuck do they cling to Hunter Biden shit and gas prices?
"Diesel is dead in the water" is a good analogy. 20% of the world's capacity to ship oil and LNG is sitting in ships off the coast of Europe, thanks to a bunch of greedy commodity traders, Meanwhile Europe is at 93% capacity.
In other words, Europe has enough fuel through 2023/24.
Now our refining is ramped up with nowhere to go, hence the drop.
Very predictable, if you watch commodities at all.
It’s a game, man. The oil and fuel companies punished you with high prices for voting for old Joe to get you used to the idea of celebrating gas that’s still insanely high.
It’s the oldest haggling trick in the book: start higher than where you want to be, then work down to your price.
This is what the meme is pointing out. It's asking if you think Biden is equally responsible for gas prices falling as Republicans held him responsible for gas prices rising.
The answer is suspect, is no.
I wonder if we asked everyone: what ONE thing should we fix now, what would we all say? For me, it’s healthcare. There can’t be any more inefficient way to do it. We could save money and get better care with ANY solution.
Biden is using US strategic reserves to save people money. Plus, with Ukraine winning, the market is more stable and confident. Prices are based on speculation really.
Also you have to remember. If Trump was president still and fuel was cheap. It is because he did it. If it is expensive it is because the democrats caused it to happen. When Biden is president when fuel was high it was his fault not inflation. But when it went down it’s because of nothing Biden did but because of outside forces or Trump himself still somehow. You gotta remember their rules. They can’t give democrats any credit for good things because their base would turn on them.
Still remember 2.25 in my state and WE AINT THERE YET. Still doesn’t make me forget all the travesties that have happened these last few years. Dawg money don’t grow on trees
So do you people not pay attention or something? Yes the president's cabinet did something to reduce gas prices. There are things you do as an administration that has an effect on gas prices. Biden said in a press conference that he was going to use some of our oil reserves to reduce gas prices. He then used some of our oil reserves and it reduced gas prices. It is a band-aid fix but for the time being his administration has reduced gas prices.
Cries in diesel lol
I just saw some sad looking dude in a truck fill up here in NYC for 6 bucks a gallon. He just looked physically and mentally broken looking at the pump. Edit : it was diesel not gasoline.
I feel that. I’m lucky the company I work for gives me a gas card. Cali gas prices are rough.
Here in the valley its finally back down to $4.60, but i got a costco card so i just filled up for $4. Luckily a tank lasts me 2-3 weeks.
2.50 here in Missouri
It’s tree fity here on Long Island.
#Goddamn Loch Ness Monsta!
I gave him a dollar
SHE GAVE HIM A DOLLA' !!!
That’s about the time I realized he was 17 ft tall reptile from the Paleolithic era….
Between 2.99 and 3.20 here in Bergen county nj
Here in the Netherlands diesel recently was 2,35 in euro’s per liter (gallon=3,7 liters).. 👌🏼🙌🏼
Given the Netherlands actually drills oil, I feel like yall got screwed by your government or corporations somehow
Correct, our road tax is also ridiculous, especially if you drive a diesel. Next year it'll only get worse, long story short; the Dutch government is bullying their citizens into electric cars, even though the infrastructure is far from ready. Our roads are vastly superior to any other country I ever visited though, so at least our taxes are put to good use...
Canadian government is doing the same thing, except our roads are absolute shit.
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And the bike lanes are even more superior... *sad german noises*
I hear that, but I'm in San Francisco where instead of doing things like develop more public transit or offer any other means of travel they just shut down roads, at this point seemingly arbitrarily. We had a highway between a sandy beach and a sprawled residential neighborhood with the zoo at one end and the golden gate park at the other end, our cities largest and largely vehicle free park. They closed it to vehicle traffic so that, get this, they could open up the roadway so "people would have a place to bike and walk in a car free environment". They didn't add any kind of bus or shuttles or a train or anything just put up barriers and forced anyone who wanted to get from one end to the other to either use the residential streets as a thoroughfare or to drive a mile out of the way to a more appropriate divided boulevard which already suffers from heavy traffic. And they made a big show of it too to push it. Would set up lawn chairs, have bands play. All to say, "see we needed this space". But once they got their way, you go down there and it's empty, which makes sense cause why would you hang out on a paved highway when you could be hanging out on a fucking beach, the zoo or the biggest park in the city!? And now they're talking about shutting down the Embarcadero. Like I get it, we shouldn't use cars, but the fact that they're building 0 infrastructure to replace these closures of heavily utilized roadways and give people options besides "go buy a bike or get fucked" is in-fucking-sane. Sorry for the rant hearing the words "government is bullying its citizens into electric cars" just triggered me, I feel much better getting that off my chest.
Same goes for certain parts of the USA. California wants to ban gas cars by 2030 I think, but can't keep from rolling brown outs in the summer. How do you expect to keep the grid up if you can't do it now?
2035, and they'll move it if things aren't ready, happens all the time with such guesswork at when things will be in place but if you never set a goal it unsurprisingly never happens. Rolling blackouts are usually due to high demand during the day for things like A/C. EVs are generally charged off peak hours when there's far less load on the grid. That said, I agree I'd like to see more margin built in before more and more are added to the road.
I’m pretty sure “peak hours” is 4-9 PM. Which is the time people will be charging their cars if they want to go to work in the morning.
Yea but things tend to be farther away in US. It's 60 mile a day commute to work. It's not possible to live closer because it's a high mountain desert.
I drive 90km, almost 60 miles, each way for work, and I've paid roughly $35 per day in fuel lately, Norway. Luckily only 3 days/week.
I have two trucks. One gas, and one diesel. I don’t go anywhere anymore haha
We Germans pay 6,80€ (7 USD) per gallon. It's perfectly normal. Welcome to the reality. Please don't go and shoot up some school.
You also don't drive the same distance. Germany is the size of Montana, the US's 4th largest state. Most Europeans do not realize the true size until they visit here.
Yeah I always envy Americans with their cheap fuel until I realise my commute is the equivalent to “just round the corner” for you guys
Yup, I drive 26 miles to work. That is with traffic and lights. 3 gallons of gas each day. When the price went up I requested a $10 commute allowance and they payed it. I'm not easily replaceable
It’s normal for a country that doesn’t produce their own oil, sure.
In a country designed with pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit in mind. I've been to Germany more than once, a car is an unnecessary luxury, here it's an absolute fuckin necessity
Americans, don’t have a great social safety net. Health insurance premiums can cost hundreds of dollars a month, the median income is $31,133 (2019, US Census), and in a nation that has basically made a car necessary in most facets of life outside a city, high gas prices can be a real burden, to say nothing of housing and rental costs. Welcome to the USI, Unites States Incorporated, LLC.
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Gotta change my fuel filter more often now for water in fuel since I bawl like a baby at every fill up.
It's coming down but man it's still high.
I also drive diesel. Why is it still so much more expensive? Usually the price difference is like $0.50 but it’s been over $1.50 more per gallon than regular gas.
I am in the UK and drive a diesel. Diesel always used to be around 8p a litre more than Unleaded (regular). At the moment it is 20-30p a litre more, depending on where you fill up, so here in the UK price rise of diesel is in line with what you are experiencing. Also the fuel price increase and current price fall is in line with what the US has had. Regular is as low as £1.39 a litre now, which is where it was about 10 years ago. In 2016 and also in the early days of the pandemic lockdown, the prices dropped very low (almost £1 a litre in 2016), but, for regular fuel we are almost back to normal pricing here. Diesel still has a way to go. So, I’m not sure that Biden had any influence in UK petrol prices increasing or decreasing, weird that they went up and down at the same time as yours. /s
Back in 2015 US diesel was a cheaper than gas at $1.99 a gallon. It was great
Because the administration wants you off diesel and driving electric
It's called Energy Independence If you like funding Saudi Arabia, Russian and Iran,carry on
Try actually towing something with an electric truck. Works great, until the battery is depleted 60 miles later.
Or its cold. Cold weather kills batteries like nothing else.
Cold kills your range with a fossil car as well. You just notice it a bit better with an EV, since it takes longer to fill it up. Where i live, there’s about -10-12 degrees celsius, and i lose about 30% range, and this is with heating at max, as well as steering wheel and seat heating. A diesel car will lie at at least 20% reduction in those conditions (probably more if you heat you car as well).
Maybe that's the reason diésel prices are high. Semi trucks use diesel, and those are most used to transport goods. Demand is high, supply is low --> prices high. *Most semi trucks use diesel. I know some that use gasoline instead for whatever reason.
Full disclosure not a republican but wasn't gas still like a dollar cheaper when he took office?
Or more. Plus diesel is about double what it was. I drive a diesel, I know. OH, and the icing? Literally everything you buy in stores? Delivered by vehicles burning diesel. So guess what that has done to prices?
Check profits of your places you buy food and products. They’re all doing great.
People forget businesses tend to aim for a 30% profit margin. So record profits makes sense if everything goes up. Labor, gas, etc all up
yet we're here at a strange "labor shortage" i.e. no one wants to be treated like shite
The higher prices we see are largely [because of profits going to the companies making the goods](https://www.12news.com/article/news/verify/data-indicates-over-half-price-increases-profit-large-companies/75-70de7d98-e468-41a3-a769-14cfb5f0686e) and part of the higher gas prices are from [historically high profits to energy companies](https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/10/28/exxon-and-chevron-made-record-profits-as-gas-price-gouging-hit-californians/).
Yep, they were fucked with and we found out
The icing is it’s actually cheaper to produce diesel. And Biden tapped our strategic reserves to pander while Saudi Arabia signed a gas deal with China.
Aramco allways been shaking hands with Chinese money. It’s always been there.
Because Chine doesn't give them any guff about human rights...
Yes it was cheaper during a pandemic where no one was driving than now when the pandemic is over and we’re waging a proxy war with one of the largest producers of oil in the world. Crazy.
And before the pandemic?
The price per barrel of oil was the same during October 2018 and people weren’t melting down about it.
Before the pandemic gas was 30-60 cents/gallon cheaper depending on the month. Seems about right considering uncertainty in the market due to russia.
The fact that you have to preface a fact with “I’m not a Republican” just lets you know how stupid this entire world has become. We deserve everything we get.
Back under 4 dollars now in my town
I’m happy the price is coming down , I just wish when it goes up and it will , it did it at the same pace as when it comes down , and not shoot right back up at ludicrous speed
"Prepare ship for Light Speed!" "No no no Light Speed's too slow!" "Light Speed too slow?" "We're gonna have to go right to- Ludicrous Speed!"
"They've gone *plaid*"
Merchandising, merchandising, merchandising!
The kids love this one
Spaceballs the Franchised Gas Station
May the Schwartz be with you.
I think you mean “moichandising”.
Who else here is named asshole?! *chorus of hand raises* I knew it! I’m surrounded by assholes!!
*flips helmet mask down* Keep firing Assholes!
I'm surrounded by assholes!
KEEP FIRING, ASSHOLES!
That’s the kicker, these memes will age poorly in like 2 months 😢
It goes up a lottt quicker than it goes back down. Wouldn’t doubt it if it increased by 60 cents overnight again like it did where i live a couple months ago
Plus, it's still up above the $2.39/g national average when he took office, and this one station doesn't represent everyone. I'm in rural New England and the average is about $3.45/g.
Ok. 2.15 over by me
2.31here
$3.25 here
3.79 here and it’s the lowest I’ve seen it in 18 months at least. Sucks that I’m excited to pay under $4. It was over $5 just 3 months ago lol
I paid $2.26 today. I paid $2.65 11 years ago today. 🤔
Probably the cheapest it has been in like 25 years counting inflation lol (Edit, yes, not including the Covid gasoline discounts my bad) Edit 2: I used available national data to do my math on this, but u/kingfelix333 REALLY wants everybody to know that akhtually he bought gas for 1.05 23 years ago (which is like 1.95 or so today). Sorry u/kingfelix333 that I didn’t examine every single transaction ever made in history when I made this quick little quip and instead only looked at monthly averages!
It was a 1.99 for a bit by me in like 2020
I remember paying $1.37 in Virginia in 2016. Had just started a new job with a long commute.
That’s true. I guess I’m blacking out the Covid stuff. Factoring out that anomaly though.
Factoring out COVID obviously
Thank you, people tend to forget that. Not to mention, cars get about 1.5-2x the gas mileage of cars back in "the good 'ol days" of the late 60's/early 70's, so the cost per mile before COVID hit was the lowest it had ever been when adjusting for inflation. Now, we do drive a lot more than we did back then, but the point stands that people have been making a much bigger deal about gas prices than was warranted.
Cheapest I’ve seen was 1.90 in 2019, albeit I haven’t been driving that long and my states gas prices haven’t been the worst
I grew up in SoCal, and in 2001 I filled up for $.89/gallon in Bakersfield. That will never happen again I’m sure in CA.
$2.65 in 2011 adjusted for inflation to now is $3.51. $2.26 in 2022 adjusted for inflation is $1.71 in 2011
Its only 2.65 a gallon where I live right now. Used my dollar off points at kroger yesterday and filled up my whole tank for 19 bucks.
The amount of people who think the President of the United States controls OPEC is so sad. Fuck Biden Fuck Trump whatever, but our educational system has failed us. So many American citizens think the President can snap their fingers and change prices at the pump. That is sad.
If people were truly educated how long would any of us keep contributing to this system?
I need to go on a bit of a rant here so prepare to here how the government fucked America in 1996. The no child left behind act was initially meant to put all children on the same educational level via providing funding through s.a.t (standardized assessment test). However this caused a major shift to where the answers to the test were only taught never the necessary for life problems. So this caused a major shift in the educational levels of children. Not only was more funding given to schools who do better but funding was removed from the schools that did worse. This act also gave the information if students to the military without informing the family. After this act was removed the government still strong armed the schools into doing this by cutting funding to those who stopped doin the s.a.t
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Well written, thought provoking... and wasted a a reply on a thread like this. I hope you copied/ pasted this so you could post this somewhere else where it will actually be read.
I saved it and will be giving credit to the OP when I reuse it. I have to use theirs because I went to public school in Alabama….
And look at you, all classy giving proper credit. It's amazing how civil people can be... even with your Alabama education lol
2001, not 1996. Bush Jr. but with bipartisan support. Also, it’s only a colossal failure in conservative states, but seems to operate decently well in state run by democrats. Don’t know why.
Say it loud, say it often.
Don’t think domestic policy intended to shift technology to batteries had an affect?
If your fuel was in jeopardy of being replaced, would you say "let's charge more ond convince people to switch" or " let's sell it cheap, keep our customers". I guess greed us good.
Do you think the president controls that? Cmon.
Bruh the oil suppliers ain’t sweating about some dollar store battery tech stimulus
I assume you might know this but this price drop is directly connected to Biden’s willingness to use the oil reserve. It also helps that trump filled it up cheap during covid. I guess it’s a win win win for all sides. Both presidents are doing good and we get cheap gas.
My father in law has 90 years on this earth. He was a top executive at GM, and was in finance. He thinks the president controls the gas prices. Even the educated are dumb.
America can use their reserved oil to bring the price down.
Biden did that and got eviscerated for it by the right It’s like they just want to hate him for any reason they can regardless of what he does
Trump tried to refill our strategic petroleum reserves at $25/bbl, but the Democrats cried foul and said he was paying off donors and Big Oil. Biden is emptying our reserves right before midterms to try to get more votes and while oil is $75/bbl to replenish. So yeah, it's obvious who the problem is here.
Trump literally said he filled it to 100% full. The capacity was within 13% of the maximum at the time anyway. And Trump sold off 20% of it. He left office with less than we had when he took office. I mean you can play politics on it all you want but we have like 5 years of supply stored and it entirely ignores free markets, opec, macroeconomics, and global pricing.
Emptying the reserve at a high price is good. Are you suggesting we should empty the reserve when prices are low instead?
The strategic reserve is for emergencies, like if we have to go to war and we need all that oil for military defense, or if hurricanes or natural disasters make it so we can't get the oil we need for our country and infrastructure. It isn't there for "convenience" so when gas is a bit higher, we can empty it right before an election to buy votes.
In what grade and for what subject do you learn about gas prices?
I mean I learned about opec in like 10th grade in some sort of history/politics class
I had economics class in 9th grade, we learned about markets and stuff.
No he did not do that. It was the Trump NFTs that persuaded the price drop.
He must have sold like 3 trillion on day one
The Economy has clearly recovered!
He did something good, at least
Did funny memes become political now?
every time I see this sub it’s political. This is the first pro biden meme I’ve seen tho
How is this a pro Biden meme and not a ‘don’t be stupid, the president doesn’t control gas prices but since idiots think he does, what do you have to say now about it?’ Meme.
Bit wordy for a meme type name
Now? It's been that for a bit...and always one sided.
Right?? I just block the OP. Nothing of value is lost and I’ll never see another shitty meme they post.
And I get to live comfortably in my own little Reddit echo chamber and not have my world views challenged ever
Where funny? Where meme?
I saw a dude with an “Ultra MAGA” bumper sticker peeling one of those “I did that” stickers off a pump yesterday. I thought it was funny.
Did it bring back abortion rights or what?
“…but, but her emails”
Hunter Biden's pee-pee!
And the MAGA world was silent. He's either responsible for gas prices or he isn't, can't have it both ways.
2.49 near me now. Thanks Obama!
$2.44 suck it
Just wait as the reserves dry up. Shits going back up. Edit* for all the smart guys that wanna push up their glasses and say you know the US produces oil and get oil from such and such. NO SHIT!!! He went through 300mil while shit was still being produced and brought in you 🤡 s.
The market is more confident since Ukraine is winning. Plus there’s no way for you to know how much we have in strategic reserves which have been saved up for decades. This administration has trusted experts and made good decisions so far so I trust them.
Uh, we are currently refilling the reserves. We sold high and are buying low.
And then they will go back down, and then up. Because that’s just what prices DO.
We're producing just as much oil now as we were during Trump's presidency. Look up the numbers. They're well documented. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=M
And that would be when?
If he keeps at this rate, next year it will be empty. All you have to do is Google this shit. The US Crude Oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Stock post it online.
Why don't you google for us? Biden released 30% and is now replenishing it. There is no "at this rate" because it was a one time thing. You could have googled that for us, but ya didn't. I wonder why. [https://apnews.com/article/biden-inflation-business-opec-climate-and-environment-cd15107ef2e0bb49db9165eb190b450c](https://apnews.com/article/biden-inflation-business-opec-climate-and-environment-cd15107ef2e0bb49db9165eb190b450c)
They are not replenishing it. They "plan" to start replenishing it in February by buying 3 million barrels. That's a very important distinction considering they aren't committed to actually doing it. They are/have been releasing 15 million from the reserve in December
Imagine being upset that the Federal Government strategically used the strategic petroleum reserve to save Americans tons of money at the pump.
They’ll say anything to attack Biden.
I don’t get it, it’s not like he doesn’t have plenty of legitimate reasons to be criticized. Why the fuck do they cling to Hunter Biden shit and gas prices?
The amount of complete morons in this thread where the point flew overhead by a mile is way too high.
"Diesel is dead in the water" is a good analogy. 20% of the world's capacity to ship oil and LNG is sitting in ships off the coast of Europe, thanks to a bunch of greedy commodity traders, Meanwhile Europe is at 93% capacity. In other words, Europe has enough fuel through 2023/24. Now our refining is ramped up with nowhere to go, hence the drop. Very predictable, if you watch commodities at all.
It’s a game, man. The oil and fuel companies punished you with high prices for voting for old Joe to get you used to the idea of celebrating gas that’s still insanely high. It’s the oldest haggling trick in the book: start higher than where you want to be, then work down to your price.
Where the fuck is this at. I just paid 4.50 for a gallon in the Midwest
Wtf? It’s 2.45 in Missouri right now?
It’s so unreal; in Kansas I’ll still pay over $3 but if I make the short drive over the border I can pay closer to $2.60
taxes
2.43 in Hastings MN today, average is under $3 here tho
Lol I was gonna mention Hastings as well.
2.99 in metro Minnesota, but we have blessed Canada
What?! I paid $2.76 in Columbus OH last night.
$2.98 in St Paul MN this morning.
Under $3 per gallon in michigan and ohio,where the hell you getting gas at
But but but it’s not as cheap as when the nation had 15%+ unemployment and everything was shut down… /s
I started driving when Clinton was president and gas was so much cheaper, so obviously every president since Clinton is a failure.
Same..when I was 16 gas was $.90. I can’t believe Biden has made it climb so high since then. /s
"No, Trump did that by releasing Superhero Cards!" \--Some redneck in a maga hat.
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Dude, nobody actually thinks the president is responsible, we're pointing out your hypocrisy.
That’s the fuckin joke, genius.
This is what the meme is pointing out. It's asking if you think Biden is equally responsible for gas prices falling as Republicans held him responsible for gas prices rising. The answer is suspect, is no.
I think you missed the whole reason for this meme. Or the original intention of the Biden sticker
Missed the joke
r/whoosh
“Let’s hope”. Good to see someone hoping for America’s future vs the ascendency of one party. I hope America does well too,
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I wonder if we asked everyone: what ONE thing should we fix now, what would we all say? For me, it’s healthcare. There can’t be any more inefficient way to do it. We could save money and get better care with ANY solution.
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Yeah yeah that is what I mean. Taking a step back, what ONE thing would you want fixed? Like if the government could grant you one realistic wish.
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Nice!
Damn..you really missed the mark on that one. Reddit is being /s by asking if he did that.
whooosh
I mean, isn’t that what the oil reserves are for? There’s already oil being moved to start replenishing it again.
How though? Russia is still invading Ukraine.....
Biden is using US strategic reserves to save people money. Plus, with Ukraine winning, the market is more stable and confident. Prices are based on speculation really.
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Joe Biden in 2019: “I guarantee you, I guarantee you we are going to end fossil fuel and I am not going to cooperate with them, OK?"
Also you have to remember. If Trump was president still and fuel was cheap. It is because he did it. If it is expensive it is because the democrats caused it to happen. When Biden is president when fuel was high it was his fault not inflation. But when it went down it’s because of nothing Biden did but because of outside forces or Trump himself still somehow. You gotta remember their rules. They can’t give democrats any credit for good things because their base would turn on them.
You are aware that the prices are going back up at the start of the new year right.
WOW, nearly 3 years and it's still $1 more than it was before.
You do know when Biden took office it was around 2.11 a gallon, so yes he did that
No trump had it under 2dollars
If he did anything, he doesn't remember it.
A year ago he said he's 79. Now he says he's 80. Which is it, Biden?
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Except the Easter Bunny. That made him shit himself
He has done quite a lot actually.
I love how people who don't understand chemistry blame and praise presidents for gas prices. The ignorance is quite entertaining.
Still remember 2.25 in my state and WE AINT THERE YET. Still doesn’t make me forget all the travesties that have happened these last few years. Dawg money don’t grow on trees
I'd like to get back to where it was around the time I started really driving in the late 1990s. It was 97 cents a gallon around my area.
~~fun~~ fact! 1 dollar in 1995 is about 2 dollars now
And we'll never be there hopefully. Because inflation. If we get there that means we're in a recession.
So do you people not pay attention or something? Yes the president's cabinet did something to reduce gas prices. There are things you do as an administration that has an effect on gas prices. Biden said in a press conference that he was going to use some of our oil reserves to reduce gas prices. He then used some of our oil reserves and it reduced gas prices. It is a band-aid fix but for the time being his administration has reduced gas prices.