Average U.S. retail gasoline prices crossed $3 a gallon for the first time since November on Monday as the conflict in the Middle East worsened, setting up a key test of public approval of President Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran, analysts said.
Tehran’s retaliation in response to U.S. and Israeli strikes has disrupted global oil supply, as it hit production facilities in neighboring countries and ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a key global trade route. Oil prices have surged, with Brent crude rising more than 5% to nearly $77 per barrel, and fuel prices moving up in tandem with the feedstock costs.
Price of fuel in the USA always shocks me. Closer to $8 a gallon here in the uk.
I haven’t seen gas under $3 since Biden was around
I paid $2.35 on Saturday, and I was pissed because the day before it was 2.25.
You gotta include the state!! I haven’t seen Gas at 2:25 since Obama was in office
Texas has its problems, but our gas prices are pretty good lol.
Yea but here’s the thing I spend about $400 a year on gas and $2,200 a year on property tax. and my state give me money back for being poor so +$1300. You guys have good jobs tho so idk it’s a toss up.
Yeah, everywhere has its tradeoffs I suppose. My property tax is a cunt.
It’s the number one reason I can’t move to Texas. That property tax is insane, ya’ll think you’re California or something. Like you got public services or something.
It was always more expensive in California. I don’t know why but when I visited the US, I was quite shocked to see how big the price difference was between California and literally all the other states I’ve been to
im on the damn east coast! near a bunch of ports. Dunno why its so high in Maine it might just be state taxes kicking ass.
Nj was decent for a while I want to say ~2.50 but now it’s $3 like the article is saying
That’s crazy, I live in Colorado and haven’t paid over $3 for years. About a month ago it was $2.15 for regular at the gas station I go to
What’s always funny is that pipeline interruptions don’t really affect supply for many weeks. This is just panic pricing.
And as always, prices go up instantly but takes months to drop back down.
I was talking to the owner of an independent petrol station the other day who’s petrol is usually a good 30% cheaper then the big chains.
I straight out asked him how he was able to consistently out compete them like this. He laughed and said it was because he wasn’t greedy. He explained it was straight up greed at the retail level. Especially jacking the price up whenever the news said that oil prices had gone up.
That’s $1.08/L CAD. Think about that Canadians. They are complaining because their gas went up to $1.08/L 😆😅. Fuckers have no idea how good they have it. And kinda puts a spotlight on how things are here in Canada…4th largest oil producer in the world 🙄
Yeah, but you guys pay more because it includes taxes which go towards things like health care. We pay way more when you take into account what we don’t get.
You might pay more, which I doubt, but at least you have a functioning healthcare system. We pay crazy level taxes for “free” healthcare where people constantly die waiting in emergency rooms 🙄. They say Canada is a “rich” country. They are wrong. The Canadian government is rich from soaking Canadians dry with taxes upon taxes!!
US has gas taxes pay for roads.
Canada pays for roads through other taxes so that even people who don’t use them pay.
Canada sends our oil to the US and then buys it back. That makes up a lot of the difference.
In theory, but the gas tax isn’t anywhere near high enough for that so most of the money ends up coming from property taxes which ironically also aren’t high enough in the suburbs so they siphon money away from citities to pay for it
Weird that affordability has never been worse (in my lifetime), inflation is not under control for actual necessities (like groceries), and yet there’s not Trump “I did that” stickers all over the place. Wonder why those people who put out all those Biden “I did that” stickers, practically everywhere, don’t care now. What happened to them? Hmmmm, guess the world will never know.
They have unparalleled cognitive dissonance skills
Keep in mind that in some countries, fuel is 3 dollars per litre.
It jumped 20¢ overnight when this shit started at my nearest gas station
Didn’t Trump take over Venezuela to bring oil below $55?
That is the fun part, trump never took over Venezuela just came in and killed the leader. Just like Iran has not been taken over.
Kidnapped the leader*
Fair enough, not really better but for sure weirder.
The non-millionaire class (vast majority) are considered to be irrelevant in this game of making the wealthiest weathier.
$3.39 for 87 octane this morning in lower piedmont of Georgia. Should have topped off leaving work yesterday when it was still $2.78.
“We did that!” - Trump and Kegsbreath
Where’s all those “I did that” stickers?
I still have some trump ones in a drawer somewhere. Pissed off half the damn town last time I broke them out. Though they never knew who did it!
Yup, it jumped from. $2.90 to $3.50 near me today. I knew this would happen, glad I filled up yesterday.
$2.75 to $3.19 today. I’m betting on $3.75 by the end of the week.
Do you live in Alaska? It went from 3.80 to 4.40 overnight here in Oregon.
Direct opposite - Florida.
Oh shit, I should know. I’m from there 🫣
Oh, bohoo. Those American gas guzzler riders would probably have a nervous breakdown at a European fuel station.
We have too many damned US-style “trucks” here in Australia now.
Our fuel prices have just crossed the equivalent of $5 USD/gallon ($1.90 AUD/litre); it will be interesting watching people squirm at the petrol pumps when the price inevitably increases another 50% or so.
We are currently at €1.85-1.90 here. The Dutch got it worse, IIRC they are at €2.60+ per litre.
War really is bad. My fuel is expensive now 😢
The gull of these Fucking terrorists
My xB gets about 31 mpg. This still hurts. I’m so sick of winning.
