https://apnews.com/article/labor-day-record-high-gas-prices-dffb7d3fa06ef930aaeebc380e5e4e0eIt’s never been more expensive in the U.S. to fill up the tank and take one last summer trip over the Labor Day weekend.The average price of regular gas was $4.14 a gallon heading into the holiday, nearly a dollar higher than last year and well above the Labor Day weekend record of $3.82 from 2012, according to AAA motor club.Nicole Collins planned to head from Philadelphia to South Carolina to visit friends, but she said her family has spent most of the summer close to home and not taking their typical weekend trips because driving has gotten so expensive.“Gas is pretty high right now. It doesn’t help that we also have a baby, so we also have to pay for that,” Collins said outside a gas station in Claymont, Delaware, where regular gas was $4.199 a gallon.Prices shot up after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February and have not settled down since. Crude oil traffic through the key Strait of Hormuz has plunged, and Iran has refused to reopen the waterway.“Everything points to the Iran War and the Strait of Hormuz,” said Tom Seng, a professor of energy finance at Texas Christian University.Energy Secretary Chris Wright offered few specifics on when the nation’s drivers might see relief at the gas pump, acknowledging that prices are higher now than Labor Day 2025.But diesel is a different story: It hit a national average of $5.85 a gallon Friday, a record.Trucks and other freight delivery systems use a lot of diesel, and that increased transportation cost is being passed on to consumers, whether at the grocery store or through package delivery services.“It doesn’t really seem like there’s an end to it,” Collins said.
Gas prices typically drop as the summer driving season ends and refineries turn to making a cheaper winter blend.But Seng said there are other factors this year even beyond the volatile situation in the Middle East that make future prices unpredictable. U.S. refineries are working at 98% capacity, many in the unusually harsh Texas heat. If there are problems there or a hurricane knocks some systems offline, prices will struggle to drop.And it’s not just a Middle East problem. Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian refineries are squeezing diesel supplies. Chinese refiners are seeing declining outputs as well, said Matthew Metzgar, a clinical professor of economics at UNC Charlotte.“There’s just less gasoline coming out of those refineries,” Metzgar said.Wright, the energy secretary, said the Trump administration was taking steps to increase production and that the markets forecast lower prices in the coming months.“If you look at the futures prices, if you wanted to buy today in bulk gasoline for two months out in November, it’s about $0.35 cheaper than it is today. So the marketplace thinks gasoline prices are going to move meaningfully lower,” he said.Geopolitically, though, there is little a driver can do to knock down gas prices.But using price apps can help save a little money, especially on long trips where gas by the interstate could be 10 to 15 cents per gallon more expensive than at stations a short drive down the road, Metzgar said.
>>1534767>Geopolitically, though, there is little a driver can do to knock down gas prices.Setting aside getting an electric vehicle.
Our local station has been under $2/gallon for two months now. It is the lowest gas has been since Trump's first term.
>>1534766>The average price of regular gas was $4.14 a gallonNo one cares. No one wants to vote for your busted ass party.>Prices shot up after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February It would be nice if AP would at some point tell people why this happened.
>>1534779>It would be nice if AP would at some point tell people why this happened.Was it because they were two weeks away from a nuclear weapon despite us having set their nuclear program back decades the year prior? Not that we failed to set their nuclear program back decades. We never fail.
>>1534778Man that bullshit "I saw $1.80 gas!" claim really was marching orders for you dipshits huh?
>>1534779they did. it happened because israel wanted it to and zognald is their golem.
>>1534779>It would be nice if AP would at some point tell people why this happened.It happened because Trump is Israel's bitch and had no idea what he was doing. He thought a quick strike would end it which is why he declared victory two days after he started the war. Still not voting Dem though, I'd rather have expensive gas than open borders and DEI
>>1534781>Was it because they were two weeks away from a nuclear weapon despite us having set their nuclear program back decades the year prior?Yes.
>>1534785And you uh, don't see the contradiction there?
>>1534784>sorry, I'm completely programmed by Israeli lies to serve another countrymindbroken
>>1534779Im voting blue no matter wo, and theres nothing you can do
>>1534789>I am an NPC who can't even read your comment let alone respond to anything you saidThanks I accept your concession
>>1534798>Israel > Americanah
>>1534808you must really love losing
>you lost, I wonyou really don't know how this works, esl shillI'm fine with you deluding yourself
>>1534795Vote red until all blues are dead.
>>1534784>I'd rather be Israel's bitch and have expensive gas than open borders and DEIHow embarrassing.
>>1534816Embarrassing for you, yes.
>>1534784>open bordersAh yes. The border that NEEDED a wall. The wall that Mexico was going to pay for. The wall that never got built.The border that was manageable during Trump 1.0, but when the next president came in, there was millions of people crossing (the number changed every time he spoke).The border that somehow, by some amazing miracle, became 1000000% sealed off when Trump 2.0 started. Overnight, it went to perfection and not 1 single person crossed. Amazing!! It all totally must be true because Trump said it. Consider using your brain.
>>1534822Israel's bitches have no need for thought.
>>1534822Are you saying Trump 2.0 hasn't been successful in preventing illegal border crossings?
>>1534824yeah, those white people ice shot really did the trick
>>1534824>Are you sayingYou are ESL and/or have poor reading comprehension if you read what I typed and are asking that question.
>>1534826Judging by your last few comments, Ihave better grammar than you. Silly goose. Not sure why libfags always resort to "ESL huh???" when you ask them basic questions they should be able to answer. Apparently, you're just talking shit and have no defensible position if you are just going to whine about liberals getting shot by ICE.
>>1534829just because you samefag doesn't mean we do esl shill. and nice typo
>>1534831Capitalizing letters is a thing. In case you aren't aware.
>>1534832how many times are you going to cry about this
>>1534833Surely not as many times as Renee Good's dyke wife cried after she was lawfully put down.
>>1534834that's cute, bragging about murdering american citizens. good thing there's no statute of limitation on it.
>>1534778So you're getting more stolen gas? Typical conservatives.
>>1534835American citizens aren't allowed to murder federal agents with cars. Sorry if this is news to you. Silly goose.
>>1534837you're not american, but i'm sure you've heard of a certain derek chauvin who was equally cocky about wanton murder, until he wasn't
>>1534838I'm more American than you could ever hope to be. Libfags like you have no power and think "Oh yea well this one time we put a murderous cop behind bars!" means anything at all. Stay impotent.
esl shill isn't a very good actor
Liberal faggot loses online argument.
>>1534841you still think i'm here to debate you, clown? lol
>>1534842Said the trained faggot. Four minutes later.
>>1534843keep the temper tantrum up, it's the only thing you're good for you miserable dunce
>>15347661534779>No one wants to vote for your busted ass partySo many voted for a Democrat mayor in the part of Florida which includes Mar-a-Lago, so there's a migger's opinions proved wrong.>>1534795A rhyming Haiku to use against the likes of 1534815:It needs to be saidVote blue till all reds are deadKys migger, use lead
>>1534842We know. You're simply here to shit up the board
>>1534851how many nypost threads have you created?
>>1534849When the Blue wave is a red tide.A faggot hangingFrom the tree on rope swayingNote to fam says DRUMPF!!!.
>>1534852How many decent posts have you made?
>>1534858so you've lost track of how many nypost threads you've unceremoniously shitted out on this board? interesting
>>1534861You do know that NY Post is the official news source of /news, right?Blaming all the NY Post threads on a single user is ridiculous.
>>1534870>i'm not the only one spamming lies! trust me!
>>1534872>SeethingHow about posting something worthwhile for once you gay fucking cripple.
>>1534874i keep telling you to get a job but you don't seem to see the worth in that
>>1534875Working is for women and fags.Doesn't change the point that you;ve never contributed to the board. Yet you want to complain.Interesting.
>>1534876your mother is the one complaining, i'm just reminding you that she didn't raise you to be this much of a burden
>>1534849Nothing beats an original:Vote red until all blues are dead.
>>1534877I don't work because I'm invested. And I paid off my mother's mortgage.Once again, I implore you, make a decent post you decrepit fucking faggot..
So 1534815 is nothing, compared to the original >>1534849. Thanks for admitting that, 15348781534857 can't do a proper HaikuFaggot miggers seetheTotal MAGA Death: Trump LeavesThere's nothing to grieve
>>15348855-7-5, boy.Did you read it right, asshole?OK then, faggot.
>>1534879you're working right now esl shill. and you should really learn to lie better
>>1534888So, you refuse to post anything worthwhile?
>>1534889our definitions of worthwhile clearly don't meld, because i love making you have constant meltdowns
Most red states are under 2 bucks a gallon. The office of the President confirmed this themselves. Filled my tank for 1.86 just this morning. Maybe don't live in an overregulated blue state? Daily reminder Cuckifnornians are paying something like 6+ a gallon thanks to Newscums regulations and shutting down refineries across the state
>5-7-5, boy1534857>When the Blue wave is a red tide.>A faggot hanging>From the tree on rope swaying>Note to fam says DRUMPF!!!.1534887That which cannot readAn asshole that gets it wrongThis fag's not OK
Most Russian shillfarms are perfectly good jobs with healthcare and other benefits. When I lie about being an American and get called names for it, I recognize that I am doing my patriotic duty, and my mother is not ashamed of me at all
>>1534891Specifically what station so we can call them and ask. >You won't tell us
>>1534893Doesn't it disgust you to push the Democrats though? You should eat a bullet.
>>1534906calling you a dumb faggot with a fake job isn't "pushing democrats"
>the Nazi's defending Berlin in 1945 are winning because they haven't given up yet bros
>>1534908see why we call you esl
1534908>the Nazi's defending>Nazi's>inb4 "grammar nazi", "context" etcthe Nazi's what? Their inferiority due to three of their 'superior technology' Me-262 jets and their supposedly 'Aryan master race' pilots shot down over Berlin in one day in March 1945 by North American P-51 Mustangs piloted by those in the USAAF known as the Tuskegee Airmen?They couldn't defend themselves, let alone Berlin. But that alone proved they were - and their modern equivalents that allow that retarded thinking to exist in their lone brain cell - inferior subhumans.>the Nazi's defending>Nazi'sThe esl shill proves itself to be inferior.Just ask a certain Supreme Commander in WWII who ultimately became POTUS several years later. Certainly the last decent Republican president: Dwight D. Eisenhower.
>>1534849It's why trump is desperate to rig the mid terms.
>>1534891So you're using gas stolen by republicans, gotcha.
>>1534939Nothing better than using freedom gas that's been stolen by foreigners and resold at jeetsations.Liggerals would love it as it includes browns, and petty theft, but unfortunately it was tied to Trump, so they hate browns stealing now because it's affected an oil company negatively.
>>1534957donald trump has been stealing from people for over half a century.
>>1534958Yet Democrats hate him? WTF?
>>1534958I mean, this 'person' is trying to claim dems are beholden to oil companies, because the right wing platform has so much dumb shit they've apparently forgotten how aggressively this admin has gone after green energy.They're cornered. They aren't even giving us the easily disprovable fox news narrative. They've gone full scizo and are making wild, unfounded accusations, because that's all that's left to them.If you look, they're having meltdowns all across the board. This is what winning looks like.
>>1534962Green energy scams like Germany propagandizing against nuclear because coal from Russia is better for the environment (according to 10/10 media orgs and politicians bribed by Russians)?Like a company tied to Stacy Abrams getting 2 billion in government funding?I wonder why anyone would hate the stinking guts of these green energy scammer fucks.
>>1534963>I wonder why anyone would hate the stinking guts of these green energy scammer fucks.I wonder why your mom did crack when she was pregnant.
>>1534964>t. FAS baby
1534963>energy scammerI wonder why Musk doesn't put internal combustion engines in Tesla vehicles?I wonder why Musk had a Tesla battery Gigafactory built in China for the bargain price of Xitter being denied the right to exist in that country?I wonder why a games company in Shanghai is so rich, they're funding research into fusion reactors? Also:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-8d2b6944-4f7a-45b4-96fd-2d92499ff97dScared of being overtaken by other countries? Scared that another country will win the fusion race?>remodeled phones by HTC: the Trump Phone. So much for 'America First'>diplomatic relations & trade - including heavy investment by NVidia - with Vietnam. Thus Trump supports communist countries>Tesla vehicles - including Cybertrucks driven by miggers 'to own the libs' - powered by Chinese-made batteries>miggers use Trump Phones made in China>GPUs made in VietnamIn Soviet China, scammed is you Trump.
>>1534957>Still trying his forced racism
>>1534977Making fun of someone for not speaking english as a native language is a form of racism
>>1534977Racists such as 1534957 1534978 deserve to be made fun of.
speaking english as a second language makes you a racistcalling out people for not speaking english as a native language makes you an anti-racist
>>1534978He didn't know that while making fun of nationalists though, which is why it was so funny.Thanks for ruining a good thing anon.
>>1534766haha get fucked!
>>1534978It really isn't.Making fun of someone making mistakes is what funny is, you fucking brown fragile retard.
Does the average American even KNOW that their and the world's current gas prices are a direct effect of trumps idiotic Iran War? People worldwide have to pay for that, it's actually interesting that so few complain directly towards the Trump government. Must be his special orange aura or so, who know.
>>1534784>Still not voting Dem though, I'd rather have expensive gas than open borders and DEIThis is what it comes down to.The Dems can't fix the economy by importing a bazillion illegal aliens, taking our guns and turning our kids in trannies and THAT is what they're interested in doing.Like the Dems in the 1970s, today's Dems have abandoned regular Americans to force thru batshit crazy social engineering policies and back in the 70s, that's what got them twelve years of Reagan and Bush.They only regained the White House when Bill Clinton dragged the Dems back to the middle.
>>1535274>Does the average American even KNOW that their and the world's current gas prices are a direct effect of trumps idiotic Iran War?It's ISRAEL'S idiotic Iran War.The mainstream media won't say it and you'll get banned for saying it on mainstream social media but let's be honest here on 4chan.
1535310>turning our kids in trannies>in>inb4 "grammar nazi", "context" etcThe esl shill thinks there's a scheme where people can trade 1535310's kids for old transistor radios, but it's not only the fact that the esl shill will never breed that is the least of 1535310's problems.The educationally inferior such as the esl shill. This is what it comes down to.Being this educationally inferior should be illegal, and turning esl shills in for the crimes of terrorism against the English language, and for being so sexually obsessed, that's what sane Americans would be interested in.1535310 turning into an esl shill. Meanwhile, the Democrats will regain the Senate & HoR in the midterms and then win the election in late 2028.>ourHi, gun shill that isn't American, thus will never own a real gun, and will only have a toy airsoft one.
>>1535310This is what it comes down to.Nah, it just comes down to you being ultra retarded and needing to kill yourself for the good of your family and the planet in general.
>>1535469A well reasoned response...
