Business US Gas Prices Hit $4.30 Average

https://www.newsweek.com/us-gas-prices-hit-4-23-average-map-shows-prices-per-state-11892399

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The U.S. nationwide average gas price has climbed to $4.30 per gallon as of Thursday, according to data from the American Automobile Association (AAA), a four-year high, as American drivers feel the squeeze at the pump.

Gas prices rose 7¢ on Thursday, up from $4.23 on Wednesday, according to AAA data. The last time average U.S. gas prices topped $4.15 a gallon was in April 2022, shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Gas prices have been rising since the U.S. and Israel's war in Iran began on February 28, when a gallon cost $2.98.

For Americans looking carefully at what the consequences of the war would be on the nation’s economy, the apparently unstoppable climb in gas prices is further bad news, after the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data showed that inflation jumped to its highest level in two years in March, driven by coffee, fuel, and housing price hikes.

This rise in inflation, turbocharged by skyrocketing energy prices stemming from ongoing disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, is reflected in President Donald Trump’s plummeting approval rating.

 

[TheLostMarxBrotherFucko]

And they are never going back down again. Thanks Cheeto in Chief! When are people going to wake up to the fact that inflation is a scam and people should have died for it a long time ago.

 

[Gandhi's Left Hook]

And they are never going back down again. Thanks Cheeto in Chief! When are people going to wake up to the fact that inflation is a scam and people should have died for it a long time ago.

It's not like Trump is the only one fucking the US population over economically. It's been going on for a long time. Nixon taking us off the gold standard was a major boost to the ass fucking though.

 

[Tom Peters]

It's not like Trump is the only one fucking the US population over economically. It's been going on for a long time. Nixon taking us off the gold standard was a major boost to the ass fucking though.

Sure, as was allowing productivity to continue to climb while the profits from those gaining increasingly went to the richest 1% while the rest of our wages stagnated for the better part of 4 decades.

But to be fair no one is still doing anything to solve this or any of the other issues.

 

[Gandhi's Left Hook]

But to be fair no one is still doing anything to solve this or any of the other issues.

I would argue that no one in federal politics will ever help the people. You can't get to those positions without selling your soul. I highly doubt we have had a single non corrupt president since JFK got killed. Not to say JFK wasn't corrupt in some way but that's when the presedency was fully captured.

Watching Trump talk about Iran makes me think he knows this is shitting on his legacy yet he has no choice but to do it.

Most people don't run for federal office, they get appointed to it and the election is just for show.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Americans should take this opportunity to walk and use a non-powered bicycle more.
See, MAHA in action! THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP!

 

[Quijibo69]

Same shit, different asshole. It got up to 5 bucks when Joe was there, Trump want to beat the high score.

 

[TheLostMarxBrotherFucko]

t's not like Trump is the only one fucking the US population over economically.

Between an unnecessary war for the Jews, importing more than he is deporting, taxpayers now having to pay for his ballroom project and selling out populism to the AI tech bubble. Sure he has done nothing.

It's been going on for a long time.

Pointless fluff

Nixon taking us off the gold standard was a major boost to the ass fucking though.

And so what? Lincoln fucked us when he established the NBS in the first place. See I can point to the past too and deflect to something we can't control at the moment. Nice try at a deflection. Sorry, scratch the nice try because it isn't.

 

[Canoodler]

I wonder what event at the end of February caused the price of oil to spike so dramatically. Please UPG2 regulars, explain it to me, help me understand why oil prices shot so high at the end of February.​

 

[Tom Peters]

I wonder what event at the end of February caused the price of oil to spike so dramatically. Please UPG2 regulars, explain it to me, help me understand why oil prices shot so high at the end of February.​

One day military operation.

The most recent spike (this week) seems to be a combination of the last of the pre-war oil arriving, Trump informing his staff to expect a protracted blockade and a regional refinery in Indiana experiencing some technical issue that slowed production.

The truth is probably closer to the assholes in power want to extract all that bill beautiful bill savings everyone just got in their tax returns. I saw something saying that if oil stays about $3.50 for a few months it'll literally off-set the average families tax savings!

It's all a scam, and you ain't in on it.

 

[behavioral swamp thang]

I dont give a fuck unless it gets higher than it was under Biden. Biden gas sat at a minimum of $3.60/gallon here up to $4.30. Trumps highest gas price is still Bidens lowest. Everyone has the shortest attention spans ever, it's so fucking stupid. If gas in my state hits $4.40 a gallon then I will start side eyeing this admin.

 

[healing rain]

Can we please just turn the entire Middle East into glass already? I am so fucking tired of my gas bill skyrocketing because every president and their mom wants to instigate some gay little retard war in Brownpeoplestan. We've been going through this same rigmarole for over two decades now.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

I dont give a fuck unless it gets higher than it was under Biden. Biden gas sat at a minimum of $3.60/gallon here up to $4.30. Trumps highest gas price is still Bidens lowest. Everyone has the shortest attention spans ever, it's so fucking stupid. If gas in my state hits $4.40 a gallon then I will start side eyeing this admin.

Already there for MI. Also no, I'd still get irritated at $4 gas. Just because it was higher under a previous president doesn't suddenly mean it's not extra money out of my pocket for retarded Middle East forever war. While I won't say things would have different with a different president, it is annoying that it seems we're just forever shackled to this nonsense no matter who we vote for.

 

[Cuckoman]

Good.
Poor people shouldn't be allowed to drive cars and congesting the roads for us white people.

 

[Otterly]

Still about half what we pay.

 

[Tom Peters]

I dont give a fuck unless it gets higher than it was under Biden.

Give it a few more weeks. It looks like the blockade is going to be going on for a while. No end in sight.

 

[Fount of BadSpeak]

I had some retards in USPG2 insist that gas prices are great and actually LOWER than they were before when I said that I saw gas nearly $6 a gallon outside of Phoenix a while ago. I still see $4.30-$5.30 a gallon for basic unleaded very frequently in my travels for work. I was seeing $3.00-$4.00 a gallon for the same before this Iran debacle. I get reimbursed by my job so it doesn't bother my bottom line, but it still makes me wince when I fill up at a station I filled up at previously, and the cost is 30-60%+ higher than it was just a few months ago.

I dont give a fuck unless it gets higher than it was under Biden. Biden gas sat at a minimum of $3.60/gallon here up to $4.30. Trumps highest gas price is still Bidens lowest. Everyone has the shortest attention spans ever, it's so fucking stupid. If gas in my state hits $4.40 a gallon then I will start side eyeing this admin.

The difference here is that one of Trump's many promises was that he would lower the cost of living for Americans, specifically because we struggled so badly under Biden (he also promised no war or regime change). So he gets in, fucks around for a year, and then balloons costs of fuel so he can fight Israel's war for it. You may not give a fuck, but a lot of other people absolutely care that they were tricked and that things are not getting better economically under Trump like they thought. A lot of the normalfags I know voted for Trump specifically because they wanted a good economic situation like they had for the first 3.5 years of his first term, and they certainly did not vote for Trump to shit in everyone else's pants for them.

Trump really better get this clusterfuck fixed well before midterms, because it's likely going to take months for the economic and supply shock he caused to calm down.

 

[The man The only man]

Oil stock =/= Actual oil prices.

 

[Tom Peters]

Trump really better get this clusterfuck fixed well before midterms, because it's likely going to take months for the economic and supply shock he caused to calm down.

Midterms are 7 months away. It took 2 months for the pre-war oil to run out, which is what we're seeing now, so it's likely it'd take 2 months from normalization of the strait for fresh oil to flood the market. Not sure he's going to be able to undo the damage in time.

And expect everything delivered by semi-truck to spike in price over the next few months, these corporations aren't going to absorb the extra cost for fuel they're going to pass it on to the costumer.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Beer is now cheaper than gas. Drink. Don't drive.