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Have You Noticed Higher Gas Prices Lately? You’re Not Alone
CBSLA ^ | 3/2/21 | CBSLA Staff

Posted on 03/02/2021 2:51:47 PM PST by conservative98

COSTA MESA (CBSLA) — The price for a gallon of regular gas has climbed as high as $4.05 in Orange County recently, which is why many drivers headed to Sam’s Club in Fountain Valley, where gas was going for $3.30 per gallon Monday — a full 75 cents cheaper than the most expensive stations.

“Gas keeps going up,” Mandy Hall, a driver, said. “I don’t know how they can justify doing like 10 to 20 cents a day, every time I turn around.”

According to the Auto Club of Southern California, gas prices in Los Angeles County have hit their highest rates since December 2019, with self-serve regular gasoline getting more expensive for most of February.

The average price Monday was $3.74 per gallon in L.A. County, following 20 consecutive days of price increases.

And in Orange County, the news was not much better with gasoline prices increasing for 21 straight days to $3.73 for a gallon of self-serve regular gas.

“I think it’s outrageous,” Timothy Bortvit, a driver, said. “It shouldn’t fluctuate that much just because there’s a problem some place, I don’t think. It’s gouging.”

So what’s actually causing the price of gas to go up? Experts say the recent spike is due to gas stations switching to a more expensive product known as a summer blend.

(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: banonenergy; biden; energy; fracking; gas; gasprices; keystonepipeline; missmeyet; parisclimate
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To: conservative98

up about 40 cents where i live


41 posted on 03/02/2021 3:15:09 PM PST by Karoo
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To: SSS Two

Where’d you get gas at $1.89? $2.60 here in the Ozarks.


42 posted on 03/02/2021 3:15:38 PM PST by donozark (Awaiting the arrival of Biden's Black Marias...)
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To: conservative98
This is nothing, a few years from now if not sooner get use to seeing this. Remember the Biden enemy occupation is using climate change just as an excuse to destroy capitalism and the US economy....


43 posted on 03/02/2021 3:17:17 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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Erections have consequences. Somebody always gets screwed one way or the other


44 posted on 03/02/2021 3:17:23 PM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: DuncanWaring

Jimmy Carter redux


45 posted on 03/02/2021 3:18:00 PM PST by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: conservative98

With President Donald J Trump we had energy independence and with Biden we’ve got rising gas prices.

Thanks Biden, for nothing .

What a disaster this guy is.


46 posted on 03/02/2021 3:18:58 PM PST by Pearfect ( .)
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To: conservative98

Everything is going up.


47 posted on 03/02/2021 3:20:51 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: conservative98

When it comes to connecting cause & effect, Democrat voters are stupid beyond rational belief.

We had a dog that I swear understood the relationship between cause and effect better than liberals do - since they don’t even get the concept. Yes, it was dog related things, but he didn’t need multiple occurrences to get the message. I miss that guy.


48 posted on 03/02/2021 3:20:59 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: conservative98

It’s amazing how no matter how cheap gas gets, people think that’s the “normal” price, and any rise above that is “too high”.

Supply and demand and environmental regs. Those are the big price movers.

Under Bush II oil went from $34 a barrel to $147 a barrel to $7 a barrel. Right now it’s at $60, a very normal price. Prices have been unusually low for a year. Count your blessings.

And people are griping about a dime.


49 posted on 03/02/2021 3:21:03 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the MAGA Party.)
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To: conservative98

So called “green energy” has a high cost. It is an additional barrier when having to consider massively cheaper alternatives like gas. Now we have the radical left in charge the only direction gas prices will go is up. They will strangle supply while we exit COVID lockdowns - the result will be higher demand and gas prices will shoot up.


50 posted on 03/02/2021 3:22:01 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Above should read $27 a barrel, not $7.


51 posted on 03/02/2021 3:22:08 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the MAGA Party.)
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To: jeffc

Just filled up @ $2.39/gallon
😭😭


52 posted on 03/02/2021 3:23:04 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: AZJeep

I remember the Costco at I-17 just north of Union Hills once being out of gas entirely for a few weeks in March.


53 posted on 03/02/2021 3:25:00 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: conservative98

Elections have consequences. As does crippling the Texas electric grid in the middle of an unusual cold snap, thus taking drilling and refining offline.

It will take WEEKS for oil and gas supplies to recover. Expect higher prices to last a while.

And that’s not even taking into account the XL pipeline shutdown.


54 posted on 03/02/2021 3:26:11 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: conservative98

It’s biden-gas
Prices here were $2.11 gal on inauguration day
Now after multiple energy crippling biden eo’s and foreign policy blumders...it’s $2.75 and climbing


55 posted on 03/02/2021 3:27:15 PM PST by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: conservative98

The excise taxes on gasoline in California are linked to inflation. See these links:

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/ups-and-downs-californias-gas-tax

and

https://ktla.com/news/california/californias-gas-tax-set-to-increase-july-1-but-lawmakers-calling-for-freeze-on-higher-levy-amid-coronavirus/

and

https://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/variable-rate-gas-taxes.aspx

and

https://www.kqed.org/news/11704202/proposition-6-gas-tax-repeal-vote-results


56 posted on 03/02/2021 3:27:19 PM PST by AJFavish (www.allanfavish.com)
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To: conservative98

Funny how we never had these blend issues when Trump was president. except the blend made it go down haha. Hope all the Blue states suffer


57 posted on 03/02/2021 3:28:19 PM PST by pangaea6
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To: Gay State Conservative

He’s the one making the joke. Don’t you know how these and then they said memes work???


58 posted on 03/02/2021 3:37:17 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

There is probably a temporary supply gasoline shortage that is affecting the old law of supply and demand. During the great freeze and power debacle in Texas, I saw information on the internet that indicated there were approximately 6-million barrels per day of refining capacity in Texas that was in total shutdown or in partial shutdown. You computer gurus can probably search the internet and find the info I am talking about.


59 posted on 03/02/2021 3:37:25 PM PST by Saltmeat (69)
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To: Karoo
I keep track of my expenses in minute detail. Yeah, I know, I have heard it all from my wife. Anyway...

12/31/20 $2.229 per gallon
Today, Same grade, same gas station: $2.699 per gallon.

60 posted on 03/02/2021 3:37:48 PM PST by fhayek
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