Gas Prices Fall Below $3 a Gallon for Most Americans

[applegrove]

Gas Prices Fall Below $3 a Gallon for Most Americans

January 2, 2024 at 7:26 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 69 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/01/02/gas-prices-fall-below-3-a-gallon-for-most-americans/

"SNIP.........

“Gas prices have spent the last 10 days bouncing around within a two-cent range, currently averaging at $3.10 a gallon nationwide. But the median average is $2.79, as the national number is heavily influenced by higher prices on the West Coast,” CBS News reports.

...........SNIP"

Applegrove:

You have to wonder if the oil companies have looked at authoritarianism and the resulting destruction of the middle class and thought "we want people to be able to afford to buy cars"?

[Meadowoak]

1. $2.54 gallon here in Ky

[patphil]

2. It's still a bit higher around me. Some stations are under $3.20, but most are around $3.30.

Orange County, NY.

[ChazII]

4. $3.30

is around what we are paying here in the valley.

[Drum]

3. Kingston N.Y.: $2.85ish

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. $2.59 here in Santa Fe.

[mitch96]

6. $2.82 west central florida...nt

[chicoescuela]

7. Still over 4 here in Northern Nevada, over 5 in Tahoe

[DFW]

8. Congratulations to Most Americans

The rest of us are not quite as fortunate. Those Americans who live outside the USA—there are about 9 million of us, according to a recent roster—are faced with higher prices than $3. In Germany, we pay about $7 per US gallon. It‘s more over in France. I don‘t drive much, since the Autobahns are clogged, and I am not comfortable driving on highways with no speed limits and drivers obsessed with vehicular homicide.

But my wife‘s mom is very ill, and she lives in a tiny town about 250 km to the north with no public transportation in or out of there. She makes the round trip by car at least twice a month. I don‘t care about the cost, but the time she spends on the road scares me to no end.

[DemocraticPatriot]

9. Yes!! THANK YOU, PRESIDENT BIDEN!!!! "HE DID THIS!!!"

Even in Michigan, they finally fell below $3. (We seem to take longer than other nearby states, for some reason unknown to me)


To you West Coasters..... sorry!

[DemocraticPatriot]

10. duplicate post

[brooklynite]

11. $5 + in California and Washington State

Still heavily laden with gas taxes.

[samnsara]

14. yeah but i will trade high gas prices for legal pot anytime :)

..i just combine all my shopping into one trip as i live 10 miles out of town....

[former9thward]

18. Most people don't have to trade.

There are only 4 states where it is fully illegal.

[brooklynite]

31. The point of the OP is the political impact of gas prices, not the merits of taxation.

[maxsolomon]

25. WA has a 50 cent/gallon climate impact fee.

I'm paying right around $5/gallon for premium in my stupid turbo Mini.

[moonscape]

33. I live on the CA central coast where

prices are on the high end, higher than Silicon Valley or LA for example. Premium is running ~4.65 and regular ~4.35. Regular in Silicon Valley is in the $4 range. Those prices are what you can get gas for fairly easily right now. > $5 is the high end, but yeah, what I paid for premium a while back.

[Tree Lady]

12. $3.25 in Southern Oregon

Ours is always expensive just under CA.

[samnsara]

13. anyone in wash state see it below 3$?

[Juneboarder]

15. $3.99/gallon at my local Costco

I'll take it! There are still gas stations around my part of San Diego over $5/gallon!

[The Mouth]

16. Not here in California

Lots of taxes, way too many.

But at least we are halfway to reasonably priced (under $2 a gallon everywhere) gas. $1 a gallon would be better.

Cheap, cheap, cheap energy of every kind, electrical natural gas, nuclear gasoline and diesel, should be the number one priority of any administration.

[Oopsie Daisy]

17. "... after this commercial break, we'll explain why this is BAD for Democrats."

[FHRRK]

19. Paid $4.55 for 91 octane in Irvine CA yesterday

Cracks me up how many parrot the Corporate line about taxes being the difference.

That explains part of the gap, not the entire gap and it ignores the economies of scale of distributing in CA.

California pumps out the highest state gas tax rate of 77.9 cents per gallon (cpg), followed by Illinois (66.5 cpg) and Pennsylvania (62.2 cpg). The lowest state gas tax rates can be found in Alaska at 9.0 cents per gallon, followed by Missouri (17.5 cpg) and Mississippi (18.4 cpg).

[IronLionZion]

20. Thanks a lot Biden, since GOP blame him when prices are high

US oil and gas production is at record highs but nobody wants to talk about it.

I enjoyed the conservative hate media during Obama's presidency. When oil dropped like a hot potato in 2014, it was Obama forcing oil companies to pump so much oil that it lowered prices globally. Obama was killing oil drilling jobs, because he's mean like that.

The solution is to build oil pipelines right through the middle of people's water supply. Or something like that.

[ashredux]

21. Well, that cannot be true, cause I listen to Fox this morning. Everything is up, inflation, gasoline, everything!!!

Would Fox News not tell me the truth? Tell me it ain’t so……LOL….LOL…LOL

[IronLionZion]

22. Yes jobs are up, wages are up, stock market is up,

Good economic news is bad news for GOP

[emulatorloo]

24. But it doesn't "feel" like it!!!

[yankee87]

23. $2.49 per gallon

Under 2.50 in Cleveland area

[Tree-Hugger]

26. Roughly $3.30 here

Philly burbs.

[doc03]

27. Gas is $2,38 in this area of Ohio today. It has been under $3 for a couple months. nt

[SarahD]

28. Median average?

Maybe the median, as opposed to the average?

[onecaliberal]

29. 4.29 a gallon here for cheap gas. It has come down though.

[Raine]

30. Definitely not here in California. 😖 nt

[Rhiannon12866]

32. $3.35 in most local stations in my area of Northeastern New York - which is a big reduction

[Ron Green]

34. Cheap energy is the chief means by which humans have done inestimable damage

to our only home, the earth.