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Does anyone actually look at gas prices or am I a snob? I look more at ingress and egress to get me out of said gas station quickly. My time is worth more than pennies. Right turn in and right turn out. No stop lights or crossing lanes. I'll burn more idling than I saved at the pump if I need to make a left turn.

I've got a 24 gallon tank too. I just don't care about the price. Would have to hit $10/gal which will never happen in my lifetime.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/gremlins-friday-february-7-2025-c

Finally, yesterday the Washington Free Beacon ran a great and very welcome story headlined, “Trump Admin Reopens Millions of Acres for Oil Drilling in Rollback of Biden Climate Agenda.” Fulfilling these Trump promises can be traced to the excellent work of newly confirmed Interior Secretary Doug Burghum.

In a series of orders Monday night, Secretary Burgum revoked scores of Biden-era actions that blocked drilling across 625 million acres of federal waters nationwide —an area roughly equivalent in size to a third of the continental United States— and across the 19-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and in the state's 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve.

Burgum also unveiled a six-pillar plan to implement President Trump's energy agenda: address the national energy emergency, unleash American energy, deliver emergency price relief for American families, revoke Biden's offshore drilling bans, roll back regulations, and unleash Alaska's resource potential.

This should help bring down the price of gas.

And yet they went up last week.

1:30pm PDT, 2/12/25, Newark, CA

Newsom's 65 cent/gallon tax increase is kicking in, I think.

OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething says

1:30pm PDT, 2/12/25, Newark, CA

I don't drive a ton, but that is retarded. I've said $10/gal would move me to care legitimately, but that's taxes in CA. $5.29 without wash? CA doesn't have water, yet give a 0.20¢ discount to waste more water? You have a dry climate, do people drive on gravel or dirt roads?

We have water here in IL so they do the discount, but we have to actually wash our cars this time of year with the salt on the roads. Your state boggles my mind. It's superficial. I wash my car to get corrosive salt off of it, not to be shiny.

$3.25/gal here in my high tax state. My current fill up is $78 with gas light on. I'd be spending $49 more on a fill up in CA. Paid $17k in IL income taxes. I'd pay about $35-40k in state income taxes in CA. This is why we didn't move out there. Your taxes are obscene. Okay state on property taxes though but I think many rent here from CA as it's difficult to own there without $300k+ a year family income at minimum. Probably a below average house as well.

OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething says

1:30pm PDT, 2/12/25, Newark, CA

Newsom's 65 cent/gallon tax increase is kicking in, I think.

They went up less than that. Something like 20-30 cents week-over-week at the in-town stations I visit. From ~$3.69-3.79 to ~$4.01-4.13 (Not going to rip-off ones near freeway exits, like one at your pic, lol).

Eric Holder says

Will not impact IL at all unless they increase taxes because of EV's. WY, SD and ND are massive frackers. There are already pipelines that feed to IL to refine finished products in Whiting, IN. Still slightly losing population so demand won't increase likely, especially with EV's, so less ICE vehicles on the road.

Just paid $3.19/gal with no car wash deal or anything. Our prices have been going down. Taxes like I said are the biggie. With our top notch power grid if anything prices might get into the low $2 area.

I've used gasbuddy (source), but I'm not sure they account for the EV market taking demand away at all. IL prices are the least affected. Any bump is due to the winter blend ending. Won't have to do with "real" nominal gas prices. Happens every year.

https://cognitivecarbon.substack.com/p/about-those-401ks-choose-the-right

I used to update this chart and publish it on X now and again to highlight just how significant the gasoline price rise was. During the COVIDiocy era in 2022, prices in my small California farming town for regular gasoline nearly touched $7 a gallon at one point.

Gas is almost under $3 in the PRNY. In 2017 it was about $2.25.

It costs a lot to maintain the seven-figure lifestyle of the globhomo grifters . . .