@black4white prices where I'm at never got to $1.85 either...the state of Washington's local, state and federal taxes add up to about $1/gallon. But under Trump, some low tax areas saw gas below $2/gallon...that after Obama mocked how we'd never see $2.50/gallon gas again.
But more to the point...this from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics...the CPI for gasoline since 2017 when Trump first took office...with a January 2021 milestone when Biden was installed. Gas prices peaked in the summer of 2022...have come down some since then...but are 56% higher on average nation wide.
@BizSuitStacy you can’t even use the year of Covid because the prices were sooo low cuz no one could leave there house and when they did there was no toilet paper But that kind of stuff is not inclusive..
@black4white the "year" of covid? 🤣 Lockdowns started on March of 2020, and weren't lifted until well after Biden took office. Gas were low before covid, and prices began skyrocketing the moment oil commodity experts caught wind of Biden's plans to shut down the pipeline. If it was simply about demand returning to normal due to lifting covid restrictions, we would have seen Trump era prices. But nooo, average gas shot way past that.
@BizSuitStacy the Russians and gulf OPEC nations saw the writing on the wall (about to be no more global trade ) in December 2019 and started massively trading oil futures . They messed w the market and profited big time . I wish I new that in 2019 too.
