At $2.86, the national average gas price has decreased week-over-week for the first time since November of last year.
Today’s average is two cents cheaper on the week. Since last Monday, 45 states also saw their averages decrease or no change at the pump. California’s price increased to $3.90 a gallon, which is the highest in the nation.
“Growing stock levels and cheaper crude oil prices are putting downward pressure on pump prices for the majority of motorists,” said Jeanette McGee, AAA spokesperson. “These are positive signs that less expensive gas prices could be around the corner, but not enough to indicate a steady trend just yet.”
While a few cents cheaper on the week, the national gas price average is 15 cents more expensive on the month and 84 cents more expensive on the year. Those gaps, as well as stock levels and demand readings, are likely to widen in coming weeks as this time last year gas prices and related factors started to take a sharp turn due to the pandemic.
Welcome to the great state of California.The land of rich Politicians and high taxes.We tax the middle class to death and give to the poor for free.Democratic’s doing what they do best.
big thank you to everyone who voted for biden and special shout out to you EV drivers who are snotty about this, when joe bin lying and heels up harris pass the mileage tax the laugh will be on you
@remember…the mileage tax is probably the fairest form of taxation the Democrats could inflict, if you think about it. Whether you are as rich as Bernie, or as thick as Cortez, or as giggly as Harris, or as “poor” as that iPhone toting youngster just starting out, the cost will be the same. This is why i do not think it will pass (federally, anyway). I read that Butidedge (sp?) has already backed away. They will figure out other ways to try to collect earnings in order to pay for all our money they are spending…
we already pay taxes for the road, i.e. gas taxes, why do we have to pay more regardless of whether it is fair or not.
Not saying we should have to. Our elected representatives, and the embedded bureaucracy, will always find ways to confiscate money from those who have earned it, and they have continue to seek new ways (Warren now wants to confiscate property if you have a net worth slightly larger than her own, with her proposed wealth tax). My point is/was, of all the ways these minders of society remove money from the economy, this way screws everybody….
I have two older sons who use my phone number at Safeway when making purchases. Yesterday I went to the Safeway station and got fifty cents a gallon off the gallon price. Saved twelve dollars. I just say a current picture of Indiana and I could read the price of gas on a gas station sign was $2.05.
We really need an edit option. No matter how many times I proofread I never see the mistake until I post. Funny how that works out.
Yes so what’s new it’s been that way for 40+ years..
Same ‘ol, same ‘ol. We only have 4 refineries supplying us now, as the old Shell is now Marathon Oil, who has said they are revamping the facility to process alternative (?) fuels. That will certainly push prices up more, and will align itself with the Democrat-Socialists. $4/gal will seem cheap.
Bad news for us.
Not quite, Shell was bought by PBF and that refinery is now called MRC (Martinez Refining Co). Marathon is the one off Solano Way that used to be Tesoro, Ultramar, Tosco, etc…and that’s the refinery that is currently shut down and in permitting process for transition to renewable diesel. Which yes means that’s a loss of roughly
3 Million gals/day of gasoline based on ~160K barrels/day of refined crude (42g/barrel, ~50% refined into gasoline).
I drive so much that I only fill the tank once every three months. 😀
….one of Newsom’s campaign promises was to get under the gas price gouging and bring it to parity by the oil companies (particularly in the Bay Area) …. did he do it? nooooooooooo ….as a matter of fact KCBS radio station last week had a speaker that went into depth in trying to reconcile the prices we are charged vs the rest of the state and country .. and he still came up short in trying to account to the mystery price difference – it accounts to somewhere between $4 – 6B per year and apparently the oil companies are banking it and Newsom isn’t doing a thing about it… chalk it up to another EDD type failure while he ponders it at the French Laundry. 🙁
This is solely to blame on all you people who vote for all these gas and other tax increases, it adds up. Thanks. I just buy my gas for my 10MPG truck and get on with life.
And I dont vote, i just pay my taxes.
If you don’t vote you have no right to complain & you are part of the problem, letting idiots decide your future for you.
Gas here costs about $2.50 per gallon. Real gas as they call it (92-93 octane and no ethanol) is about $3.00. I use it for my riding mower. Booze on the other hand is more expensive.
You should change your handle to “Lucky Chuckie”
Knowing where the blame belongs is important. From energy independence and being an energy exporter to once again being dependent upon middle eastern countries for both pricing and supply.
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Good old California.
Highest gas prices with the highest gas taxes and the worst road in the Republic.
Highest taxes thrown at the school system, the worst school systems in the Republic.
See the trend? There’s a lot more.
Your government cannot manage anything, it can only spend money to make a special few very wealthy.
Am looking forward to moving to the Midwest this summer enjoy the Mega Drought and wildfires along with your overpriced everything
It’s something I can’t do without, so I don’t really care. Being in the auto/truck maintenance business for over 40 years, I’ve learned that fuel is the cheapest thing you’ll have to put into your vehicle. If the price really bothers you so much, do without your stupid $4.00 fancy coffee drinks everyday, for pete sakes. And ….. if it really bothers you …… quit voting for candidates that want to make us “energy dependent” and want to cap oil wells etc, etc. So LAME!