Gasoline prices have risen, on average, 40% in the past 11 months. This leads to higher consumer costs across the board. Oil, currently $90/barrel, is going to go even higher as a merge of Biden economic, regulatory, energy and foreign policies are going to make things worse.
As the Obama-Biden administration previously said when they achieved their last historic increase in gas prices, “U.S. energy prices will necessarily skyrocket“, in order to achieve their ideological climate change objectives.
(VIA CNBC) Gas prices rose to the highest level in more than seven years Friday, on the heels of the U.S. oil benchmark topping $90 per barrel for the first time since 2014.
The national average for a gallon of gas stood at $3.423 on Friday, according to AAA, slightly surpassing the prior high-water mark of $3.422 from Nov. 8. Friday’s price means consumers are now paying the most at the pump since Sept. 10, 2014, AAA data shows.
The national average stood at $2.44 a year ago. The rapid rise in prices is contributing to inflationary fears across the economy and is creating a headache for the Biden administration. (read more)
Yes, a president can and does control the price of gasoline. What can a U.S. President and administration specifically do? We have abundant U.S. energy resources. Quite literally the strongest in the entire world.
- Permit the use of preexisting approved leases in ANWAR (Alaska) to put more volume into the Alaskan oil pipeline that is severely underutilized.
- Finish the Dakota access pipeline.
- Re-approve the preexisting energy leases in New Mexico, Arizona, NE Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
- Retract the stoppage of the Keystone pipeline to permit efficient oil transport shipments from Canada.
- Stop blocking the expansion of coastal oil refineries in Texas, Louisiana and Alabama (regulatory issue), as well as Northwest, Northeast and Southeast Seaboard.
- Continue to develop natural gas as a clean burning fuel.
- Drive Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as an export.
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Unfortunately, this would mean reversing the entire energy policy of the current administration. The existing energy inflation and high prices of oil, natural gas and gasoline are a direct and intentional part of Joe Biden policy. That policy is driven by the leftist demand for a “green new deal.”
None of the actions above require any approval from OPEC. Strategically the ‘all of the above’ approach enhances U.S. national security and diminishes the influence of Russia, China and Iran. Within six months of the above, gasoline will plummet.
Democrat policies are the driving force of inflation. It’s not COVID-19.
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If the Bidenistas were deliberately trying to destroy the USA, tell me one thing that they would be doing differently.
Sending the military into rural communities to kick in their doors and arrest them, and if they refuse to comply, murder them en masse.
But its only February, so…
Really something to be so proud of.
When a government wishes to deprive its citizens of freedom, and reduce them to slavery, it generally makes use of a standing army.
– Luther Martin, Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention
Energy is Wealth that the ruling class cannot horde.
And, restricting Energy production takes money directly from the pockets of working people.
STE,
I can think of a bunch but best not to give these commie saboteurs any more encouragement.
Put Hunter in Joe’s Cabinet!
He already is…hidden cabinet. Been working for the Big Guy for decades.
The medicine cabinet is more his speed.
That is what I used to say about Obama. Biden has surpassed Obama’s evil actions by 10 times. Revenge is required.
ozero is directing brandon from the couch
ozero said as much … cannot find the video right now
Give the Universal Grifter some time. Zero will be back when the money from his “book deal” runs out.
Unfortunately, we have not seen the last of that girly man.
They’d probably be trying to goad Russia into a war over Ukraine.
Good point; no one will be able to think of a single thing.
The majority of the American people have a strong goodness in the hearts. They cannot fathom there would be anyone want to deliberately destroy America.
However, the Communist/Fascist/Totalitarians now in power and control do want to destroy America. It is the money made by the globalist elites building a Country back up once destroyed being their the prize.
Look at all the Countries which has ended Communist/Fascist/Totalitarian and now the United States. They are in the process of destroying America as their goal. The People need to realize destroying America is their plan. Restoring America is NOT their plan.
Isn’t it about time we start connecting the dots world wide, Canada, Australia, Austria, France, on and on and stop playing words with these masks, vaccines, boosters and their efficacy like its something legitimate? This is a well orchestrated endeavor to bring the world, especially the United States to her knees in order to make way for the New World Order, in which everyone will be at the mercy of the powers that be.
Yes, its the “Western world” of what have generally been referred to as “Liberal Democracies”;
Its interesting to look at what countries AREN’T in the mix; Mexico and Latin America,…Spain, Most all of Africa, India, scandinavian countries, even Japan seems to not be under the thumb of big pharma.
So, geographically they do not have total control, and in the areas where they DO have control, it is tenuous at best, hanging on by a thread.
Nor is their control of info NEARLY as total as they would like, and as they need to succeed. Witness this and other websites, Neil Oliver, Joe Rogan, etc.
If they were as powerful as they want us to believe, such sites wouldn’t exist.
Its a CON, its CONmunism, do NOT fall for it. WE are LEGION, they are small, petty and inept.
Or, they are accidentally proving, on a grand scale, that central planning doesn’t work. Our job is to help them get the word out.
It jumped up .10 cents a gallon from $3.29 to $3.39 in a matter of two hours today in northern Maryland.
Most Democrats in Democrat Ghetto Cities like New York, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Minneapolis ride buses and subways to work, school or the welfare office for free. They don’t care about gas prices!
Democrat lawmakers travel by SUV convoy or first class seats in airplanes on the taxpayer dime, they ain’t worried about gas prices either!
Even the Dims are not riding subways…but…you are right…they don’t care about gas prices because they are NOT working…only collecting their check for watching the View.
Exactly. Medicaid even provides gas cards for “rides” to medical medicaid appointments.
The don’t care because they are too dumb to know they pay the higher prices in the stores, where they buy stuff with their money and our tax money. They cannot buy as much and the little light does not go-off upstairs.
I read that the Biden administration increased the funds on their EBT cards.
Though the particulars vary by state, the fed has so far been increasing the qualified benefit to the max household benefit on a monthly basis. Forex, if a single person could qualify for a max of 200/mo but their actual income only qualifies them for 10/mo, right now they’re getting 200/mo. The state must request the additional benefit on a month by month basis apparently.
There are also some states where the max is increased by a certain amount above the historical household max benefit norms based on income. This is USDA SNAP, what we historically called food stamps.
A 25 percent increase, hardly “a raise”; when have you ever seen a business give its employees a 25 percent COLA raise?
SS payments? 5.9 percent, then increased medicare payments by $35, so took MOST of the COLA back.
But hey, SS is for “unproductive” members of Society, so no biggie, right?
Barstuds
Sure glad Biden is in office and Democrats are running the country. I mean who doesn’t enjoy record Covid cases, $5.00 per gallon gas, empty store shelves, runaway inflation, increased violent crime, porous borders, and potential war with Russia/China.
Kinda think slo’ Joe is gonna get another 81 million votes, no?
The Demented Fraud didn’t get 81 million the 1st time either. He might have got 60 million. The rest were all fraudulent and Dominion
Probably 281 million this go round.
81 million BALLOTS, not votes from actual living people, Huge difference.
Gas prices are going exactly the way China Joe wants it to.
I hate Basketcase Biden.
Higher energy prices for leftists are a feature, not a bug.
DonnyVee: It’s for the common good. In other words, if the commoners suffer, it’s good.
And once again the people can see Socialism in action.
You can not have monopolies without governments.
There is no such thing as Crony Capitalism as it is just Socialism because it involves government intervention, regulation, and controls.
So let them know that once again they tried Socialism and once again that succeeded and proved it never works except to harm the people with crushing poverty while protecting and enriching the select few at the top.
So what you are saying is that socialism works perfectly. The rubes just dont know the con.
I fear this is not socialism; it is fascism – Mussolini said something like the definition of fascism
is government colluding with big business.
Oh, for craps sake! All the ideological claptrap, and defining the various flavors of socialism is just to distract the rubes.
Bottom line, a small group of psychpaths are trying to steal the goods, liberties and lives of everyone else, so they can enjoy the spoils.
“As you can clearly see from this chart, this is NOT a “pyramid scam”,..oh no!
Its a TETRAHEDRON!”
The difference between Fascism and Conmunism, or Marxism is just like the difference between “find the pea” a ‘streetcon’ that uses 3 walnut 1/2 shells and a dried pea, and “find the lady aks 3 card monte”.
The trappings appear different, the spiel of the con artist sounds different, and if you play, you are just as broke at the end of the day.
This Crap economy feels just like Obama’s hmmmm I wonder why? LOL
Sam Wright: Those of us who are a bit older also get a strong Carter vibe. Very strong.
$3.69 here in SE PA
Are there still oil wells in PA??
Along Oil Creek area (NW Pa.) there were a few still kicking. Small time though.
I paid 3.55 yesterday in NE PA
Idiot Biden has probably never bought gas in his life. Kamala will probably have to show him how to pump gas!
What makes you think she knows how to?
Allegedly it was her pumping skills that propelled her fast track career.
Oh, what a visual!
She had trouble plugging in an EV.
Ha! I’d forgotten that. So it’s a “no” on knowing how to pump gas.
Just because they used to call Ol’ Veepthroat “The Town Pump”(Everyone gets a turn) doesn’t mean she can explain how to do anything..
Timothy S Pinkerton,
I think “siphoning” might be more her speed?
Best,
skipper
If it won’t start, she could wrap her lips around the exhaust pipe and suck start it, for sure.
What? He used to pump gas back in Scranton when he was in high school. His grandfather was a wildcatter in Titusville and uncle Bob laid the first pipeline for Standard Oil!
If the goal were to make ruinables i.e. solar and wind price competitive it still does nothing for the feasibility or the logistics of building them due to the required resources.
Ditto for electric automobiles.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/01/biden-maladministration-now-cancelling-mining-leases/
Anyone with one iota of sense should recognize all of the policies to date as deliberate economic sabotage.
Oh, we recognize the economic sabotage. Notice the civilian & military illness anomalies; health sabotage! Notice the growing and intentional inflation rate; asset sabotage! Notice Extremely abnormal weather from HAARP; energy sabotage! Notice the Covid mandate induced firings and quitting of jobs; family sabotage! Are we watching a brain-dead criminal politician intentionally weakening this country just before instigating a totally unjustified and un-winnable thermo-numclear war with Russia, China or BOTH?
That stooge is a figurehead meant to take the flak as an expendable idiot.
As to the rest, for the Great Reset, NWO or how ever many names have been given prior, their plans require America as we know it to fail/fall to create a power vacuum for them to fill.
R F Burns: “ruinables” is a great pun of ridicule for renewables. Either that, or autocorrect has a sense of humor.
I assure you it was quite intentional as the autocorrect was trying to “fix” it.
I had seen the label used elsewhere on the internet and it fits so very well…
My comments have words mis-spelled because I got tired of argueing with it.
Last time I used it it was still consistently turning FBI into FIB, so maybe its not that dumb after all,…or maybe the dishonesty of the FBI is SO obvious, even a machine can see it?
Sounds like a geico cave man commercial, lol.
$3.09 per gallon for the last few weeks was raised to $3.35 per gallon today in my neck of the woods in West Virginia.
Their real objective…….
Destroy, America Faster
And more Americans are seeing this because nobody is truly this incompetent so it HAS to be intentional
But the biggest tell is who their accomplices are, as we hear NOTHING from the RINOS.
At least with Parliament you can have a vote of no confidence and stop the madness. We are stuck with this stolen-election administration for 3 years. The Chinese will be picking over the bones of the USA by then.
As pointed out by Bogeyfree (paraphrasing) the problem is NOT the Brandon admin, its the Rinos in Congress.
We can’t impeach them, or recall them, tea party demonstrated primarying challenges, but with enough public pressure, they CAN resign.
Governors would then, in most cases appoint someone to fill the vacant seat. So, pressure on Gov to appoint non elitists populist/economic nationalist candidates to fill the vacant seats.
Probably due to higher demand from those 467,000 people driving to their new jobs…
/sarc
Or the increase in illegal aliens drunk driving.
Yeah, here in Texas, it went from like $3.00 to $3.20 in a court weeks 😩 Let’s Go Brandon.
*couple weeks
Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
I paid $3.18 today (Midwest). I have no doubt it will be close to $4 when the “Sumer blend” hits in late Spring.
Ask the President of El Salvador. He seems to know. What an embarrassment we have become.
This was supposed to be a reply to Seneca above.
Right in time and just as planned
No, it’s incompetent because the realisation it was intentional was meant to come a lot later. Trump’s four years in office and robust opposition has so dislocated their plans that they had to accelerate their own, which has meant a concomitant acceleration of the people’s awakening.
It’s a race to destroy and rebuild in the socialist mold, versus the people waking up due to all the destruction and rebuilding going on around the; it’s a lot quicker to wake up a sleeper with a jack-hammer than dig up a street with it and the globites know it!
Plastic is an oil by-product. How many products have plastic in them or are packaged in plastic in one form or another?
It is important to remember that Macron’s poor climate change fairy policies are what made the yellow vest movement. The one he shut down with a global Scamdemic.
This is one of the reasons I said the Freedom Convoy should add energy independence to their list of non-negotiables. I think it is highly popular and a total winner.
I saw a video interview of one of the “founders” I hadn’t seen at any of the pressers; he didn’t talk about mandates, at all.
He talked about ENERGY POLICY, and how they need pipelines, so instead of selling their oil to international market, they are keeping it in Canada.
The convoy has astutely focused on the uniting issue of MANDATES, and smartly stayed away from “vax is poison” arguments (even tho they know) but they actually have a whole agenda.
Remake the Conservative party, in order to make it what we need, and then push back, hard, against the Conmunists, on a broad range of policies.
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Do’ers need fuel. This is an assault on the most productive and valuable contributors in the economy. The s63 amg corner office folks can work from home. The tradesmen cannot. These policies are tremendously classist. It is despicable.
Does anybody really believe this BS war on fossil fuel is gonna “save the planet”? I’m guessing that if the rich elites were hurt as much by these policies as the working poor, they would be much less likely to believe the climate change fear mongers. But they’re not and they don’t really give a rat’s ass about the pain of others, even though they pretend to stand on the moral high ground. They disgust me.
They all expect to make a killing on trading carbon tax credits.
How stupid are they to not realise if, like Pelosi you have $25 million, you have a lot more to lose by inflation, than I do.
Highest point since 2014 and you ain’t seen nothing yet. Going much higher and soon.
Agreed Saywhat. Another dollar more by end of summer. Probably sooner.
They don’t care, they want the price up at $5.00 a gallon. It’s what Obama wanted when he was in charge. He wanted the price at the same level as the Europeans. Thats why he wanted Susan Rice as Domestic Czar, so this drive upwards was implemented…
Charles Stephens: Full agreement, not only about gas prices, but, about Rice. She’s there to do Obozo’s bidding. Notice that we rarely hear about her or see her, although she is JoeBama’s “Domestic Advisor.”
Hauling north/south in CA, I was paying between 5 and 5.50/gal for diesel just before Thanksgiving and last trip a week ago it was 4.69-4.89/gal at same truck stops. Cash price. Credit is higher. It’s about a buck per gallon less, on average, in Oregon.
$100 a barrel is not unrealistic at this point. I don’t want Americans to endure the effects of that but I sure want FJB and the Marxist clownshow that controls him to. Let’s see the beaureau of labor stats massage those unemployment numbers.
Yep, saw the old 3-step in gas prices in Allen, TX … to $3.10 to $2.95 to $3.20 just over the past few days.
Did notice the fuel tankers visited the gas stations just as the prices were changing.
Biggest swing seemed to be at the 7-Eleven Stores while Krogers and Walmart seemed to have a smaller sing with an end price of $3.13.
… whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government…
It’s a bit more complicated.
The knuckleheads in power don’t understand mineral economics. Renewable energy sources are not reliable and cannot support baseload power requirements. “Green” hydrogen is not around the corner. Don’t be surprised if nuclear becomes less divisive sooner rather than later. This doesn’t even consider all the ancillary petrochemicals industries oil/gas support. The cost to the economy is going to be huge.
Presently, a large portion of our LNG production is being shipped to Europe. Couple the colossal stupidity of no energy transition plan to Covid driven supply chain fissures and the price of energy is going to escalate, a lot, for a while to come. Price controls anyone? Those woked well during the Nixon administration /s.
It will be open season on climate change policy-makers and their acolytes once the full cost of this poorly planned but globally imposed (except, of course, for China and Russia) religion reaches “peak” impact.
They want the rubes (us) to lower our utility usage across the board; use less heat, water and electricity.
They want us to get used to being uncomfortable. Then it becomes normal. Those of us who remember
freedom die off (what do you think the pandemic was for and as proof how old were the majority who
died?) and the rest know no better (dumbing down of education is the method).
Ok, why drive the export of LNG? Our power grid relies on NG, as do those that use it for heat generation. I don’t understand why we desire to deplete the resource to drive the domestic price up. I have no desire to spend one penny on ports or the infrastructure to aid LNG production for export.
Europe is in a desperate energy situation.
good for them, I hope they freeze their asses off
They are doing all this on purpose to tank the middle class.
The middle class along with ownership of guns is what is preventing
the globalist fascist government takeover of the US. Also, little
things like a removal of religion, the goal of replacing state and
local police forces with federale nazis, the separation of family
and friends through the use of a pandemic, etc.
It is all going according to plan. Pray!
Another Biden Boom moment.
It will be so well worth it if the price of a gallon of gas goes up to $5 a gallon, or even $10 a gallon, if it means the temperature will be .00000001 degree lower than it would otherwise be. And anyone who thinks otherwise, is a racist.
You will take what we have for you and like it …
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A sharp Treeper not long ago noted that this screw has a non-typical Left hand thread.
I might also note that it is also a double thread.
So this representative of We The People is aptly doubly screwed by the Left.
“It’s time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day.”
She must have been referring to her policies contributing to rising gas prices.
Déjà puke.
I am in Arizona and got gas today. There was a sticker on the pump with the tax breakdown per gallon
18.4 cents fed
18 cents state
1 cent underground tank tax
They want it up to 8 or 10 dollars a gallon. They want to make sure the peasants can’t go very far or have much disposable money.
At the root of phony climate change, offshoring American jobs, destroying the currency, is that the self-appointed elites don’t like that the riff-raff (95% of the world’s population) was getting uppity with their airplane travel, fancy vacations, McMansions, etc. These “elite” like to feel superior and don’t think that the peasants should be using too many resources or enjoying life too much.
Notice the global lockdowns never locked down the rich and connected it just kept them from having to see or share space with the peasants.
Somewhere there is someone who will invent fuel that is cheap and doesn’t need to be gas
and can be used in our cars without expensive modification. We are Americans.
I say we go to an underground economy. I also admit I have no clue on how to go about that
but I know there are many who are smarter than I and will come up with a plan.
Hold the line!
The parallel economy has long been there. It’s merely a matter of adjusting one’s lifestyle to join it. For some, that’s easy. For others hard. In general, most people go along to get along. Path of least resistance. The comfortable path. Rebellion is rarely comfortable or easy so I can understand why people prefer to hang on to the status quo.
I think it has been there for a long time. It’s called hydrogen oxygen from water H2O via a chemical reaction. I was told about it by an Engineer when I was installing the electrical for a flight simulator at Flight Safety. He called it Power Ball, not the lottery but a chemical that causes the hydrogen and oxygen to separate. They use it to power up under ground mining equipment. Does it work? I’m not a chemical engineer and I was told this over 20yrs ago.
I don’t think it is a stretch to call Biden & Company the biggest Economic Terrorist
this country has ever seen in modern times.
Paid $4.999 in West Covina.
Why oh WHY do we keep hearing about Biden’s economy?
We all know it’s Obama’s.
Joe’s nothing but a very poorly stuffed macaroni shell.
He’s nothing… but an Empty Moist sock with corn pops all around.
Stinky Britches Biden AKA Mr. Bungles and his gang will not stop until they have completely ruined our Constitutional Republic.
Remember THE BILL OF RIGHTS is not the bill of privileges.
Just checked – Oil is 91.92 /barrel.
I’m sorry, but Democrat voters and dumber than hell.
Ok, so Obiden wants to raise gas prices to to help the green energy industry. This actually makes sense if your goal is to
help the greens at the expense of the country and working class citizens.
Their stated goal of a cleaner environment is a complete farce. Curtaillng USA energy production is actually harmful to
the environment because our energy industry is much more environmentally responsive, than the worldwide average.
Natural gas is arguably the worlds cleanest energy, yet they penalize gas production in favor of green energy.
By choosing to hinder our domestic production, they prop up the oil dictators in other counties. Biden gave Putin a
huuge gift by forcing the price of oil up. But Trump is Putin’s puppet?
Typical dim behavior. Their voters just can’t figure this out. Dumb.
There goal is $9.00/ gallon, National avg.
Just so you know,…
Utterly depraved to even tax groceries.