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2022 Mar 8, 11:35am   79,782 views  535 comments

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https://slaynews.com/news/aaa-lists-10-most-expensive-states-for-gas-9-are-blue-states-in-bad-sign-for-joe-and-kamala/?source=patrick.net


AAA Lists Most Expensive States for Gas: 9 of Top 10 Are Run by Democrats
David Hawkins March 8, 2022

According to AAA here are the most expensive states for gas as of Monday:

The American Automobile Association (AAA) has listed the top-ten most expensive states to buy gas, nine of which are run by Democrats.

According to AAA, the national average for a gallon of gas is $4.06 and rising.

The average is now 45 cents more than a week ago, 62 cents more than a month ago, and $1.30 more than a year ago.

And it promises to get worse as the West debates banning Russian oil.

AAA has released a list of the ten states with the most expensive gas prices and most are blue states.

The only red state in the top ten is Alaska, which surprisingly comes in at number 6.

Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, said:

“There are few words to describe the unprecedented rise in gasoline prices over the last week, with massive spikes coast to coast in both gasoline and diesel prices, as oil prices jump to their highest since 2008. ...

California: $5.34
Hawaii: $4.69
Nevada: $4.59
Oregon: $4.51
Washington: $4.44
Alaska: $4.39
Illinois: $4.30
Connecticut: $4.28
New York: $4.26
Pennsylvania: $4.23




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264   RC2006   2022 Jun 16, 1:08pm  

First time ever my car was over a 100$ to fill the tank. #letsgobrandon
267   B.A.C.A.H.   2022 Jun 17, 5:02pm  

My partner and I drove from SJ to Capitola (near Santa Cruz) for lunch today in a Subaru Legacy. It's a comfy AWD Sedan, not a dinky economy car.

The round trip was 95 miles. According to the fuel estimate display, averaged 31 mpg. It means, about three gallons, at $6.00 per gallon (price I paid at Moe's in SJ yesterday) the round trip was about $18, or $9 per person.

For comparison the round trip on the excellent Santa Cruz County public transit bus, "Highway 17 Express", direct, nonstop between downtown Santa Cruz and downtown San Jose, is $7 per passenger ($14 round trip, per passenger). Then you'd have to figure out the last few miles on either end. Leisurely door-to-door drive in air conditioned comfort with stereo sound was $9 per passenger.

This is why I say, gasoline even at today's prices is a fabulous bargain. Sorry I don't like the high prices either, but it's still incredibly cheap transportation.
269   Onvacation   2022 Jun 18, 8:09am  

RC2006 says

First time ever my car was over a 100$ to fill the tank. #letsgobrandon

I figured out a way to keep it under $100. Fill up when you are half empty. Last time it only took $61 to fill up.
270   NDrLoR   2022 Jun 18, 8:51am  

Onvacation says

Fill up when you are half empty
That's what I always do anyway. Fill up on Thursday after I've bought my chicken thigh from Krispy Chicken at 23rd & Franklin. Just drive into the Alon station around the corner from my house, never used more than half a tank in a week. Stand behind several well-off people spending money they can spare on scratch offs before I can pay.
271   Patrick   2022 Jun 18, 11:10am  


rwmalonemd
@rwmalonemd
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No one is addressing the 800# gorilla in the room. Blackrock/Larry Fink has decided that petro has to go, and so the entire industry is being starved for capital via the ESG score (ergo social credit system) ranking process.

Biden is just acting as Fink's handmaden, doing his bidding. Fink is the puppetmaster here.
274   Patrick   2022 Jun 18, 4:24pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-the-allegory-truth




And doesn't anyone in the White House understand basic economics? If you want to lower the price on something, increase the supply and not the demand.
275   AmericanKulak   2022 Jun 18, 8:00pm  

Patrick says

And doesn't anyone in the White House understand basic economics? If you want to lower the price on something, increase the supply and not the demand.



@Patrick, did you watch Maher? He explains why in his latest segment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu9JGK_yHo

Millie Trust Fund Babies believe the supply is unlimited, only demand (their access to cash) is limited.
277   Booger   2022 Jun 19, 10:00am  

Patrick says

And doesn't anyone in the White House understand basic economics?


Why are you expecting Democrats to understand basic economics?
279   AD   2022 Jun 19, 12:59pm  

Now within 10% of pre-COVID pandemic levels for rig count ....
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280   AD   2022 Jun 19, 1:00pm  

281   HeadSet   2022 Jun 19, 2:47pm  

DooDahMan says



Let me fix your bogus premise about cars and global warming:

282   B.A.C.A.H.   2022 Jun 19, 4:06pm  

This morning my partner and I drove the Subaru Legacy AWD sedan (ie, NOT a dinky economy car) from the driveway in front of our home in SJ to two different destinations in Berkeley. We left home with a (nearly) full tank (only drove 5 miles after previous fillup). The total round trip distance was 102 miles.

We filled up on the way home at Gas & Shop at the corner of McKee and 33rd street in San Jose, at $5.979 per gallon. It was $19.59 for this trip, ie - about $9.80 per person.

For comparison, the discount (Clipper) BART fare for SJ - Berkeley is $13.20 per person round trip. The $13.20 does not include how to get door to door at either end of a BART trip.

I know the prices are high, and I don't like them either. But even at these prices it's incredibly cheap transportation, considering door to door, not sharing with public transit denizens, etc. I think it means the prices may go much higher.
283   richwicks   2022 Jun 19, 4:11pm  

HeadSet says

Let me fix your bogus premise about cars and global warming:




You should post that to Kevin Siers who did the original cartoon:

https://twitter.com/kevinsiers
284   richwicks   2022 Jun 19, 5:40pm  

AmericanKulak says

@Patrick, did you watch Maher? He explains why in his latest segment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu9JGK_yHo



I have to give you credit @AmericanKulak to be able to watch Bill Maher. That fucking shitlib makes me want to puke. I used to respect him, just as I did Rachael Maddow, Keith Olberman, Steven Colbert, The Young Turks - now they just disgust me. I thought they had principles at one point, they are just fucking shitlibs. Shitlibs are as disgusting as Neocons are, because they are essentially the same.

If Al Gore was prezdident in 2000, we'd still have gone to war in Iraq for different reasons though - but all those shitlib scum would have fanatically supported it. We'd have had the same outcome, a destroyed nation. I didn't realize they were such partisan hacks.

Maher is a partisan hack, although he pretends he's not.
285   Onvacation   2022 Jun 19, 5:52pm  

HeadSet says


Let me fix your bogus premise about cars and global warming:

Did you photo shop that HeadSet?
nice work, whoever did it.
286   HeadSet   2022 Jun 20, 7:22pm  

Onvacation says

Did you photo shop that HeadSet?

I used Microsoft Paint to erase the original letters and Powerpoint to add in my own.
289   Patrick   2022 Jun 26, 11:53am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/bons-mots-and-bad-money-inflation/


Ask yourself what Biden and his minders would have done differently had they actually intended to impoverish the American citizenry. Just about the first thing Biden did upon taking office was mount an all-out attack on the American energy industry. His cancellation of the Keystone pipeline got a lot of ink. But that was just the tip of the oil rig. He has worked tooth and claw to destroy the coal industry. He has canceled oil- and gas-lease sales in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. Is it any wonder that the United States went from being a net energy exporter at the end of the Trump administration to showing up, empty red can in hand, begging for the stuff from Venezuela and Iran?

It’s something to think about when you fill up your gas tank and notice that the gauges on the pumps have just been altered to allow for an extra digit: not $9.99 per gallon, Comrade, but $10.00 or more.
294   Patrick   2022 Jul 3, 6:59pm  

https://www.ntd.com/biden-looks-to-block-or-limit-new-offshore-drilling-scaling-back-trump-era-plan-to-pump-more-oil_802923.html


Biden Looks to Block or Limit New Offshore Drilling, Scaling Back Trump-Era Plan to Pump More Oil


Whoever is controlling Biden really wants high gasoline prices.
295   AD   2022 Jul 3, 9:20pm  

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Active rig count continues to steadily increase and is within 10% of pre pandemic level.

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296   Eman   2022 Jul 3, 11:39pm  

Looks like someone is doing alright with their Model Y long road trip. Spent about $60 for 850 miles.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/vqij7v/850_mile_trip_cross_country_completed_yesterday/?utm_name=iossmf
297   AD   2022 Jul 4, 12:09am  

Eman says


Looks like someone is doing alright with their Model Y long road trip. Spent about $60 for 850 miles.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/vqij7v/850_mile_trip_cross_country_completed_yesterday/?utm_name=iossmf


With my 2021 Honda CRV (about 34 miles per gallon highway) that would be 25 gallons or $125 for gasoline. This is 6.8 miles per dollar.

The Telsa model Y is 14.1 miles per dollar based on data provided in the previous post.

The cheapest Tesla is the Model 3 and sells for around $40,000, and is about $10,000 more than our purchase for our 2021 CRV. The Model 3 is the one my wife and I are looking to buy. It costs the Tesla 3 owner about $3 to charge for every 100 miles or 33 miles per dollar. Model 3 has a range of 350 miles.

(source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2022/06/24/tesla-charging-costs-battery-gas/7689746001/ ).

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299   B.A.C.A.H.   2022 Jul 4, 12:06pm  

ad says

It costs the Tesla 3 owner about $3 to charge for every 100 miles or 33 miles per dollar.

At what price per kwhr?
300   Eman   2022 Jul 4, 12:35pm  

Someone who lives in Kansas City pays 5 cents/kWh during off-peak hours. We’re so progressive in San Jose here, where we pay 25 cents/kWh. 🚀🚀
301   Hircus   2022 Jul 4, 9:49pm  

Eman says

Someone who lives in Kansas City pays 5 cents/kWh during off-peak hours. We’re so progressive in San Jose here, where we pay 25 cents/kWh.


But we get to bask in our smug moral superiority by talking about how dirty the electricity is in other states.

We have, like, um, almost fully green energy produced in CA, and were willfully ignorant about all the electricity we import from other states that's generated with fossil fuels. We also get to blame these states for our terribly unreliable electricity that leaves the state in darkness in the middle of heatwaves, as we mumble something about blaming speculators, or something like that. Then we all fire up our fossil fuel generators that half the state has purchased in the past few years to get through the brownouts, and think to ourselves "well, at least by running the genny today I get to avoid peak pricing, which is over 50c/kwh"

We californians vote smart.
302   AD   2022 Jul 4, 10:07pm  

B.A.C.A.H. says

At what price per kwhr?


Within the Florida panhandle it is a total of about 14 cents per kw-hr.

In white liberal shithole states like California, I suspect the electricity rate is a lot more.

Roll Tide Roll

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303   SunnyvaleCA   2022 Jul 5, 12:34am  

B.A.C.A.H. says


ad says


It costs the Tesla 3 owner about $3 to charge for every 100 miles or 33 miles per dollar.

At what price per kwhr?


Ha ha ha! Let me know where I can purchase electricity at 9¢ kWh. How much are states subsidizing electric car charging (which seems to me to be a luxury compared to keeping the lights on or cooking food).

As far as I can tell (my bill is a bit confusing here), I'm paying about 40¢ kWh for the mandatory hand-picked, organic, non-GMO, PETA-compliant electrons. Those hand-pickers are unionized and fair-trade, too! From what I can glean, a Tesla model 3 goes about 3 miles on a kWh, which means 40¢/3 = 13¢/mile. On the highway, maybe 2.5 miles per kWh, so 20¢/mile. At $6/gallon and 30 MPG, a gasoline-powered car is doing 20¢/mile; it'll need 46 MPG for 13¢/mile.

Meanwhile, people don't expect gasoline to remain this high while electricity prices continue at multi-decade trend of outpacing inflation.

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