Posted on 03/14/2022 4:00:31 PM PDT by conservative98
The White House confirmed Monday that gas prices in the United States would continue rising, even as President Joe Biden has offered few specific solutions to the problem.
“In terms of how far, you know, we still believe it will continue to go up,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters when asked about the price of gas.
She would not say if the White House had any estimation of how high prices could get, but tried to reassure Americans that Biden was working on the problem.
“Obviously, what we’re trying to do is mitigate the impact,” Psaki said.
Biden has repeatedly promised to work on finding ways to reduce gas prices, but his efforts have mostly failed.
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Sanctions to the moon, Alice. That’s what they’re doing.
A promise/threat.
Putin’s fault, no doubt.
That’s okay, though, because higher prices here mean we are helping widows and orphans in Ukraine. Or something.
Never mind gasoline. The price of No 2 heating oil is outrageous.
6 days ago I got home heating oil. 151.9 gallons at $4.63 9/10 for a bill of $704.66.
Ours went down 15 cents today. It may drop a little more, then I expect it to shoot back up.
Obviously $4.50+ per gallon isn’t high enough for the idiot at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Fed gas tax is 18.3 cents per gal. The average person drives under 14,000 miles per year. The documented average per the NHTSA is 13,500 the fleet wide fuel economy also NHTSA is 25.5 mpg as of February this year.
13500/25= 540 gallons per year. Removing the fed tax is $98.82 for the entire year.
This also illustrates why the fed needs to move to a per mile usage tax. No one who is honest with themselves believes that under $100 per year in Federal gas taxes pays for all of the interstate system O&M in addition too the US Federal hwys that are not interstates.
On that note since fuel costs went from $2 to $4 that’s an additional $540 for the average driver. That’s an additional $45 a month over a 12 month period. It’s more of an emotional sting for most people seeing $4 per gallon but in real terms if $45 a month breaks you then you probably shouldn’t be driving always certainly not in states that don’t require minimum liability insurance coverages with income to debt ratios like that those people are a liability to all around them should they impact their vehicle with no income stream or assets to recover in civil damages. Im certainly glad Texas makes everyone carry at least $60k in liability or they won’t let your register a vehicle for public road use nor renew a drivers license. Yep no insurance tickets is enough to get a licence pulled and a mandatory SR22 kept on file for at least 3 years afterwards.
FJB!
But in the long run, the deeper they dig themselves into this hole the better the chances of setting things right. Yeah yeah about the cheating...stow it. Read the post on this site today about how DeSantis has a +7 favorability rating in a county where democrats outnumber republicans by 163,000.
Even democrats don’t like what’s going on and there is no “Democrat Discount” at the gas pump. As always they love spending other peoples money but hate spending their own.
Most don’t care if gas is higher - some saying it’s their contribution to the Ukraine war.
man if Brady is hurting, we are all doomed!
Bicycles are cheaper and improve health more than motorcycles.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Yeah. That’s getting pretty old. It ain’t funny anymore.
“Embrace the suck”.
He and the Ho could both resign, after naming the Donald as VP...
So their contribution to the Ukraine was started in Jan 2021?
Say Biden, did Putin make you say this during the 2020 election campaign? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slszva6kk90
A per mile usage tax is a tax on liberty and freedom of movement and I am against it.
Funding Russia war machine is bad for the USA we never should have been importing oil from them in the first place. Now that we have committed two acts of war against Russia it is definitely time to cut ties and dependency on them. Sending military arms to one party of a belligerent is an act of international warfare that has been true for hundreds of years it’s up to the aggrieved if they call the third party out on it but it doesn’t make it less of an act of war. Secondly economic warfare is yup you guessed it an international act of war again it’s up to the aggrieved how they respond. We are for all purposes in a state of war with Russia one side will formally declare their intentions at some point. Probably when missiles start to hit Poland or Germany. Russia will start attacking the third party supply lines as is their right under the laws of war. We bombed Laos plenty during Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh trial as a famous example. Laos was never a belligerent party to the Vietnam conflict.
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