Here's a graphAny numbers for 2008-09? iirc diesel went over $5 per gallon back then too
Larry Schweikart news summary, some more at uncoverdc link
https://uncoverdc.com/2022/05/11/the-news-of-today-is-the-history-of-tomorrow-may-11-2022/
IN POLITICAL NEWS
1) Missouri’s Senate has passed an election integrity bill that bans drop boxes, ballot harvesting, and Zuckerbucks, requiring photo ID for voting.
Hallelujah. Now, 49 more times.
Chuck Callesto
@ChuckCallesto
BREAKING REPORT: Missouri Senate Passes Election Integrity Bill — BANS DROP BOXES, Ballot Harvesting and ‘Zuckerbucks’ – Requires PHOTO ID for Voting...
2) Is this a good paragraph from Bloomberg or what?
“Inside the administration, there’s a sense of frustration, doom, and some say magical thinking about inflation, but no clear path on the best way for the White House to grapple with an economic phenomenon that’s more severe & lasted longer than officials expected.”
“Than expected?” Good God, how stupid are these people?
“Inside the admin, there’s a sense of frustration, doom, & some say magical thinking about inflation, but no clear path on the best way for White House to grapple with an economic phenomenon that’s been more severe & lasted longer than officials expected”
3) The MAGA candidate Kathy Barnette has soared into second place in the Pennsylvania senate race and now only trails the Wizard of Oz by a couple of points.
4) The perpetual sure-DemoKKKrat vote from the Republican side of the aisle, Lisa MurCowSki, is in the fight of her life for reelection and therefore will not assist
SpewMore in creating a national abortion law.
5) In Missouri, the America First but scandal-plagued candidate Eric Greitens now leads in the senate race there.
6) New FBI notes revealed that the “fine people” went into panic mode when Trump tweeted that he knew he was being spied on.
-Scrotumtoter (Comey), McCabre, and Deep Stroke all should be behind bars, rooming with a large Aryan Nation guy named Jethro.
7) Now, air conditioning is a “human right.” I suppose opening weekend tickets to “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” is not far behind.
8) With Roe out of the way, here are seven more precedents the Trumpian Supreme Court should eliminate.
9) Good news for DemoKKKrats: A Republican lawmaker with a conservative voting score of 55^ resigned from congress after sexual harassment claims. (Tom Reed NY).
11) A Harvard study showed that schools that switched to remote learning harmed children’s educational achievement; study praises Florida and Texas for keeping schools open.
[Not if they are grooming and indoctrinating children in pervdom]
12) Daily wisdom from the Rutabaga, who said, “The number one threat is the strength, and that strength that we’ve built is inflation.”
-Please, stop pretending and get the net.
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
13) Gas and diesel prices spike, but not because of crude oil prices.
14) Russia’s crude oil production was up in May.
15) Biteme may drop Trump’s tariffs against our archenemy China to lower consumer prices.
16) The Tech bubble bursts as Silicon Valley giants have lost $1 trillion over the last three days.
17) Expectations among small business owners has fallen to a 48-year low.
-Thanks, Rutabaga!
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
18) A Brit warns that Russia is “far from defeated.”
Date
Week
Month
Year
Region
Diesel Price
12/10/2007
49
12
2007
US
$3.325
12/03/2007
48
11
2007
California
$3.567
12/03/2007
48
11
2007
West Coast
$3.532
12/03/2007
48
11
2007
Rocky Mountains
$3.487
12/03/2007
48
11
2007
Gulf Coast
$3.345
12/03/2007
48
11
2007
Midwest
$3.385
12/03/2007
48
11
2007
Lower Atlantic
$3.376
12/03/2007
48
11
2007
Central Atlantic
$3.570
12/03/2007
48
11
2007
New England
$3.595
12/03/2007
48
11
2007
East Coast
$3.444
12/03/2007
48
11
2007
US
$3.416
11/26/2007
47
11
2007
California
$3.620
11/26/2007
47
11
2007
West Coast
$3.587
https://agtransport.usda.gov/Fuel/Historical-Diesel-Fuel-Prices/u2kh-s8ke
This site has weekly and regional, there are graphs which say rising and show 2008 was the peak in price.
Here's a graph