What are you guys paying for gas?

Interesting chart. Gasoline typically increases in price from Jan to June. A lot of refineries shut down during this period for maintenance as demand is the lowest. This year, that happened and then Texas had an electrical problem that shut down even more production. Add to that, the market is expecting demand to increase as vaccines rollout and economy "starts back up". Prices still aren't crazy compared to previous years, but the chart shows it feels a lot worse.
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My first recollection of the volatility of gasoline prices was in New Orleans, LA back in 1971. Refineries everywhere and "Regular" was .429/gal.
Back home in east Texas, no refineries for miles, gasoline was .349/gal.
Diesel was .10/gal.
Then here came Jimmy Cah-tah (D)!
Gasoline (Regular) went up to .659/gal and you could only buy 5 gallons at a time!
I was driving 148 miles, one way, for part of my job.
Could not fill up at one station. I had to hit three stations before leaving town.
I'd get 5 more gallons (if the lines weren't too long!) when I hit Houston, then stop twice on the way home!
The restrictions finally quit, but prices didn't go down!
Late 70's, Mistah Cah-tah let fuel get to 1.00/gal.
Ron helped, but prices still didn't drop below 1.00/gal
Geo 41 didn't do too badly as fuel prices continued to climb.
Then "Slick" Willie.
I was so busy with kids, wife, work and life, the 90's get pretty muddy.
The Geo 43.
Anybody remember the gas lines on Sept 12, 2001?
Didn't think I would EVER get through that one.
Even with a war and gas prices up, Geo 43 did pretty good keeping gas at the pumps.
THEN....here comes Barry Sotero!
By '08 or '09 diesel was 4.00+/gal and the wife was traveling to work.
We finally got to the point, budget wise, if diesel ('06 Dodge Ram w/Cummins, 6spd, 23/24mpg) ever hit 4.50/gal, she would not be able to work. I think 4.34/gal was the top.
Trump helped, we got another (d) admin and fuel prices are going up.

I'm not saying a (D) or a (R) is better for gas prices, but........
 
My first recollection of the volatility of gasoline prices was in New Orleans, LA back in 1971. Refineries everywhere and "Regular" was .429/gal.
Back home in east Texas, no refineries for miles, gasoline was .349/gal.
Diesel was .10/gal.
Then here came Jimmy Cah-tah (D)!
Gasoline (Regular) went up to .659/gal and you could only buy 5 gallons at a time!
I was driving 148 miles, one way, for part of my job.
Could not fill up at one station. I had to hit three stations before leaving town.
I'd get 5 more gallons (if the lines weren't too long!) when I hit Houston, then stop twice on the way home!
The restrictions finally quit, but prices didn't go down!
Late 70's, Mistah Cah-tah let fuel get to 1.00/gal.
Ron helped, but prices still didn't drop below 1.00/gal
Geo 41 didn't do too badly as fuel prices continued to climb.
Then "Slick" Willie.
I was so busy with kids, wife, work and life, the 90's get pretty muddy.
The Geo 43.
Anybody remember the gas lines on Sept 12, 2001?
Didn't think I would EVER get through that one.
Even with a war and gas prices up, Geo 43 did pretty good keeping gas at the pumps.
THEN....here comes Barry Sotero!
By '08 or '09 diesel was 4.00+/gal and the wife was traveling to work.
We finally got to the point, budget wise, if diesel ('06 Dodge Ram w/Cummins, 6spd, 23/24mpg) ever hit 4.50/gal, she would not be able to work. I think 4.34/gal was the top.
Trump helped, we got another (d) admin and fuel prices are going up.

I'm not saying a (D) or a (R) is better for gas prices, but........

 
I remember when someone filled the strategic oil reserves with 140$ per barrel oil. Lol
 

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