Posted on 05/17/2022 7:50:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
A spokesperson at 76 confirmed to The Post Millennial that the gas pumps were reprogrammed to allocate for double-digit pricing.
Gas stations across the US are running out of fuel and in anticipation of an increase in gas prices, gas stations in the state of Washington are reportedly reprogramming pumps to include double-digit numbers in "price per gallon" as the current trend could put prices over $10.00.
At the 76 Gas Station in Auburn, Washington located at 1725 Auburn Way North, gas pumps have been reprogrammed to make room for double-digit pricing. In March, they still had single-digit programming.
A Spokesperson at 76 confirmed to The Post Millennial that the gas pumps were reprogrammed to allocate for double-digit pricing. Although not confirming that they are expecting prices to increase up to $10.00 or more, the current trend suggests the possibility.
“At $10 a gallon everything stops. If you work 20 miles away from home you are losing money “
Wait what? Why are so many people math illiterates. Not that ten bucks gas is not a pain in the butt. Europeans have paid 9 plus a gallon equivalent for years. If you have a 40 mile per day round trip commute which is farther than 80% of all Americans who commute less than 30 per day. The NHTSA keeps track of that yearly number btw it’s free data to download by zipcode.
So 40 miles per day with a average sedan getting 30 mpg is 1.33 gals per day which at ten bucks a gallon is $13.30 in fuel to get too and from work. At $15 per hour which is rapidly becoming the absolute minimum wage that’s about 45 min worth of work to pay for the commute in and home. Hardly losing money. For the middle class making $50000 a year that’s $4166 gross in income per month and $266 in fuel for a 5 day a week 4 weeks in a month 40 mile round trip at 30 mpg. Most assuredly not losing money.
Ten bucks sucks for the American not used to it but it’s not the apocalypse that the internet is hyperventilating about. The EU is as large as the USA in land are and population they have $9+ gal petrol and they are not all Mad Max.
The avg American drives 13,500 miles up from 12,000 last decade per year at
30 mpg that’s 450 gals per year of fuel or $4500 at ten bucks a gal or $375 per month. Not exactly world ending. I spend more per week on cigars and scotch. The point is if Europe can function on $9+ fuel America can too it just makes people angry that we have oil in the ground and are being kept from using it that part is worth being angry at. The larger problem is lack of refinery capacity especially in the North East they shut down 4 or 8 in the last few years and have a critical gap in the ability to make fuels regardless of the supply of raw materials. That problem won’t be solved anytime soon as the EPA won’t permit new facilities and even if they did the banks won’t finance any new hydrocarbon production nor refinery. Americans will need to learn to do more with less that’s just a fact. Even if the GOP gets back in the fall it will be grid lock till 2024 and there is no way to.force banks to finance projects woke investors have told them not too.
what was the highest gas cost under jimmy carter?
I would love to see your reference of a thousand year of oil in the USA.
The USGS says the USA has 264 billion bbls of oil technically recoverable by any means regardless of economics. The 2021 consumption numbers show 7.21 billion bbl per year. If we didn’t export a drop we have 36 years left. Put this in perspective that 264 billion bbls is more than Saudi Arabia or Russia but we consume so much even that massive amount only lasts 36 years I know math is racist but for those of us racists it shows we have under a generation left. Children born now will live to see the end of the oil era that’s just a fact.
“In 2021, the United States consumed an average of about 19.78 million barrels of petroleum per day, or a total of about 7.22 billion barrels of petroleum. This was an increase in consumption of about 1.6 million barrels per day over consumption in 2020. The increase was largely the result of the economy recovering from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.”
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=33&t=6
Here is the USGS assessment of undiscovered reserves.
Iran is working on it........................Back to the Future!................
it’s already starting... I think 5 bucks is the tipping point.
and we are over that in some places.
Professor used to mean a semi-respectable occupation. These days it’s a synonym for someone who is certifiably, clinically insane. It’s a person who has been weaponized to indoctrinate college students into hating themselves and hating their country.
Washington, DC, or the other Washington?
Will there be a revival of the Misery Index?
State, Key Words..................
On October 30th, 2021 I purchased an electric car, because
this is what I saw in our immediate future.
Welcome to Jimmy Carter II, and we’re only 16 months in out
of 48. Yep, just 2/3rds more to go.
Two days ago, the cheapest gas in town was $5.79.
Who knows what it is by now.
The “peak oil” folks have been crunching these numbers for decades.
Then technology improves and they change the numbers.
Again...and again...and again...and again...
For us old timers this stuff just gets boring.
Now—if we dumb down the population enough so that technological innovation is crushed (because it is “racist”) they we are &^%$ed.
The USA of the victorious WW II Generation is over, we are a woke nation now and only Jesus can save us.
No they won't because it is all Trump/Putin's fault, Biden is fixing it as fast as he can. All we need to do is support the Democrats because they are trying to help the poor folks. No really. (Sadly that is what they truly believe.)
You know, we dont need to give them bastards any more ideas.
Mail in ballots become even more important when there is no gas for people to drive to the polls.
“ I lived through the Jimmy Carter years.
Some local gas stations dealt with that issue by changing the unit to quarts or liters.”
I was just going to say this. It’s next because it’ll look cheaper for the illiterate masses when they see it’s only $3 a liter.
My uncle was one of the lucky ones, he escaped in a balloon.
Did you purposely decide to not calculate the total cost that must be added onto every industry because of the increased energy cost? Your little story is pure B$ and the total cost to every American that will result because of $10.00 a gallon gasoline is astronomical.
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