Posted on 02/22/2021 10:43:48 AM PST by Red Badger
In the month since President Joe Biden entered the US presidential palace, gas prices have risen to an extent previously unseen since before the advent of the coronavirus pandemic.
Gas prices are up more than 10 cents a gallon nationwide in the last week alone. Some have pointed out increases in price that are even greater, with gas prices rising sixty cents a gallon in some areas of Texas since December.
Trump In Office 1,99 Per Gallon 👏 Biden In Office 2,59 Per Gallon 😡 🤔🤔🤔 Can't Imagine What's Gonna Be In 3-3/4 Years 😱😱😱 pic.twitter.com/q9sEqA6TaL
— Sam Ghannoum (@Sam2323_43433) February 21, 2021
AAA’s national average gas price is listed at $2.63 for a gallon of standard gasoline, increasing a full 25 cents per gallon since the day of Biden’s inauguration.
Biden ended the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a pipe from Canada that would have allowed the flow of crude oil without a need for polluting trucks and freight trains.
Biden’s Department of Energy denied a request from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to temporarily waive some environmental standards during the onset of the winter storm, preventing Texas’ oil infrastructure from producing enough fuel to keep the state’s homes heated and provided with electricity in the historic storm.
ERCOT and the Department of Energy failed Texas. NOT Cruz. #CruzFailedTexas
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— Haley Kennington 🇺🇲 (@kenningtonsays) February 19, 2021
This development harms middle and working-class Americans the most, a constituency that Biden has pledged to secure economic relief for in a campaign promise he’s yet to deliver anything on. It’s likely that the price of gasoline will rise even more in the coming months, with Biden moving to enact green energy requirements even as working Americans are faced with unprecedented economic insecurity. The Democrat’s promises to Al Gore and the green energy lobby are more important than economic reality, it seems.
The vast majority of Americans don’t have the luxury of commuting to work on Amtrak rail everyday. Until Biden can actually deliver anything for the everyday American in terms of coronavirus relief, all he’s done is take money from their pocket during the coronavirus recession by ensuring an increase in gas prices.
“Could some of it be related to economic recovery?”
Multiple factors add up to why energy prices are up.
Coming out of Covid (globally)
Biden’s restrictions on Fracking
The anticipation of enormous deficit spending reducing the dollar (oil is priced in dollars)
Liberals desire to force us away from gasoline vehicles and into electric vehicles.
The TX freeze severely cut back on production, which is 2-4% of global output
$1.66 Election Day
$2.24 Last Week
UP 50 cents a gallon in my area since Dementia Joe stopped the pipeline.
Grocery prices noticeably up too.
Just wait till that $15/Hr minimum wage kicks in!
You’ll get a 2nd mortgage loan to by your groceries!.................
Gas prices here have gone up 20 percent since dementia Joe took over.
bkmk
In Maryland, 30 miles away. gas is $2.65 and a month ago it was $2.16 for months and months...
Many cross the state line just to gas up...smh
By Summer expect it to be close to $4.00 gal....by years end it will be up to $5.00 gal.. jmo
Pretty hard to read.....
Biden Announces Ambitious Goal Of $100 Per Gallon Gas By End Of First 100 Days In Office (Satire Warning)
You ain't seen nothin', yet.
You beat me to it.
During Obama the media completely ignored inflation and reported falsely about the economy for the whole time.
When will we do something about this media?
Up 35% ($1.999 to $2.699) here.
The ONLY good out of this is the only co-worker who is anti-Trump and probably voted Xiden owns a hot rod, loud, gas-guzzling Mustang that he loves to drive with the gas pedal floored. Asking him how he enjoys the “new normal increasing gas prices” will provide entertainment.
I don’t enjoy it being in Texas, 10 miles from the nearest town, and the majority of our vehicles are V8-powered. ALL of them get fed 93 or better octane.
$3.86 in SoCal today. For a while we were below $3, but it went up pretty fast
When events happen that limit the income state govts can harvest, states need to go on an administrative diet and slash overhead. Instead, they stay focused on 10% increase in staffing per year, along with yearly benefit increases. In California, we have city managers that make more than the president of the US. City managers. Why is that? Because they have the power to tax, whether it be property or gas taxes. The increase in Calif gas prices isn’t supply/demand or even annual refinery overhauls. It’s state greed.
Wow
Caliph Baraq proved if you have a lame enough Republican opponent, you can get re-elected with $4/gal gas.
We’ll see if Kamalamadingdong Devi Gopalan-Harris can repeat the plan.
High gas prices effect everyone and everything, but really hit small businesses that move things, mow lawns, etc. hardest. These tend to vote republican, so rats won’t care.
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