re: What gas prices are you seeing?

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How does the president of the US have an impact on the price of oil (which is just over $80 a barrel).

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Let me help you out you worthless little idiot.

Keystone pipeline canceled after Biden had permit blocked

Biden’s Order to Freeze New Oil Drilling on Federal Land: What You Need to Know

Biden Makes Sweeping Changes to Oil and Gas Policy

I’d ask you to do the country a favor and promise to never infect the gene pool with your stupidity, but it’s not like a woman would ever willingly allow you to touch her in the first place anyway.

Jumped near 10+ a gallon here in NOLA.
Awaiting Oweos response DV.

$5.09

2.92 regular unleaded

The Biden administration said we have to make a sacrifice at the pump for the environment. This is not a joke. They really said that.

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I’ve never thought you were particularly intelligent but there’s no way you’re this dumb. This has to be a troll

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I am not going to go into detail tonight because it will take a little while and I am watching football and about to go to sleep.

Forbes

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In a nutshell, here are the major factors impacting oil, and subsequently gasoline prices since 2001.

Dot-com bust and 9/11 put a chill on the global economy
Falling U.S. oil production gives OPEC more pricing power
Rising oil prices helped spur the 2008-2009 recession, which crashed oil prices
Economic recovery sent oil prices back to $100/bbl
U.S. fracking boom breaks OPEC’s hold on oil prices, again crashing prices
Prices stabilize as OPEC again curtails production
Covid-19 pandemic sends oil prices crashing
We can debate whether certain presidents made some impact on oil prices, but that impact would be modest. The factors above are the primary reasons oil prices rose and fell since 2001, and presidential decisions didn’t have a lot of impact on most of these factors.

To the extent that President Bush’s decisions led to the 2008-2009 recession, you could argue that he helped crash oil prices early in Obama’s term. And to the extent that Bush helped fund the fracking boom, he is partially responsible for the surge in U.S. oil production, and the crash in oil prices a decade later.

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Here is a fact check on some bullshite that Biden said.

One thing he says is:

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BIDEN: “We’re also going after the bad actors and pandemic profiteers in our economy. There’s a lot of evidence gas prices should be going down, but they haven’t. We’re taking a close look at that.”

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THE FACTS: There actually is little evidence something nefarious is behind the higher gasoline prices, as Biden suggests.

Gasoline prices indeed usually fall after Labor Day, after the peak summer driving season. While that hasn’t happened yet this year, analysts say other factors besides malfeasance appear to be in play. U.S. gasoline and oil prices, for instance, have been affected by a hurricane that temporarily shut most oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, several big refineries, and a major fuel pipeline to the East Coast.

The national average price for a gallon of gasoline is $3.19, according to the auto club AAA. That is unchanged from a month ago, though up a dollar from this time last year.

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Gasoline prices usually track oil prices, and the price of benchmark U.S. crude is back close to its early-July highs after falling in August.

Jeffery Born, an energy-markets expert at Northeastern University, said current gasoline prices are partly a result of production and refining capacity that was knocked offline by Hurricane Ida and other factors – even a shortage of tanker drivers.

“In short, I think we are having supply-chain problems,” Born said. “I’m sure Joe wants prices to come down — you and I do, too. I’d also like to be 20 pounds lighter tomorrow.”

Phil Flynn, an energy analyst at the Price Futures Group and a critic of Biden’s energy policy, said prices reflect demand that came back stronger than expected from the pandemic and lower U.S. oil production, compounded by events like the hurricane.

“I’m not seeing any profiteering or bad actors,” Flynn said.

Tom Kloza, chief analyst for the Oil Price Information Service consulting firm, said Hurricane Ida and lingering effects on production and refining are causing summer-like prices to “linger for longer,” especially east of the Rockies. He predicted that pump prices will soon ease in the West, Southwest and Rocky Mountain states.

Energy economist Philip Verleger said gasoline prices are being propped up by U.S. independent producers and OPEC members limiting their oil production, by the cost of blending ethanol into gasoline and by lower gasoline inventories.

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This is from the AP. They actually have other fact checks on bullshite Biden said that wasn't accurate (just like every other president).

AP

I'm seeing prices going way above $3 pretty much everywhere and 93 is over $3.60 or so. It's absolutely spiraling out of control fast.

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How does the president of the US have an impact on the price of oil (which is just over $80 a barrel).

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shutting down the keystone pipeline.

shutting down domestic drilling.

basically by reducing the supply.

you really are fricktard.