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Many people have children and have to have a bigger vehicle.
I drive an Expedition most of the time and I can haul anything. I stock up on water, mulch, bigger items. I don't have to pay for delivery. Those that have things delivered will have to pay a much higher price because trucking it will increase with higher fuel prices. I also have a two seater convertible and a Harley with three tour packs if it really gets bad. I have choices.
How is that electric grid doing in California ?
Who said anything about electric grid and CA??
So people in Europe and Japan don't have kids? Lol Americans drive guzzles and most are broke. That's a fact.
I am hearing that the price of gas could reach $7 a gallon. ?
Why start a thread on what COULD happen? In my area regular goes about $3.50 per gallon. It's been higher before and we survived. Gas is a pretty small percentage of my total budget, so even a big increase isn't going to break the bank.
Many people have children and have to have a bigger vehicle.
I drive an Expedition most of the time and I can haul anything. I stock up on water, mulch, bigger items. I don't have to pay for delivery. Those that have things delivered will have to pay a much higher price because trucking it will increase with higher fuel prices. I also have a two seater convertible and a Harley with three tour packs if it really gets bad. I have choices.
How is that electric grid doing in California ?
I grew up with 3 brothers and we had a 4-door Chevy sedan. I knew a few families with bigger families who had station wagons.
This country would be much better off if gas prices would've slowly moved to $7/gallon over a few decades. We need to spend more money on bridge maintenance in this country. How many more bridge collapses will it take?
I can't believe how many male teachers drive Ford F-150s to school. Don't tell me because snow because they usually have 2-hour delays or cancel school.
Nonsense. Communists hiding behind a veneer of environmentalism have been saying it would be inevitable, but they're just words. Convincing to a lot of people, obviously, but still just words.
There's no legitimate reason for us to be paying more than $2/gal on average right now. It's higher because of political barriers and agendas. The technology for recovering oil has exploded in those decades you referred to, and we can now gather as much oil as we want, but the Biden administration wants high gas prices so he took political steps to artificially inflate them.
On the chance that you'll bring up the price of gas in Europe (a lot of people do at this point), the difference is in taxes. The actual fuel cost is about the same, so just don't go there, if you were going to.
I don't think you understand supply and demand and how the world impacts oil prices. US drillers aren't drilling, they are not back at the level they were in Jan 2020 when they walked away due to low prices and we have a spike in demand. Most of Europe already pays over $7 per gallon, $4 a gallon here is a steal.
So you need to explain how a president can inflate prices.
I don't think you understand supply and demand and how the world impacts oil prices. US drillers aren't drilling, they are not back at the level they were in Jan 2020 when they walked away due to low prices and we have a spike in demand. Most of Europe already pays over $7 per gallon, $4 a gallon here is a steal.
So you need to explain how a president can inflate prices.
For the sake of honesty that $7 equivalent in Europe is due mostly to taxes and not the cost of product.
What nonsense! I am hearing that it won't. What possible scenario gets us to $7 in the near term? It would take an unimaginable storm of unfavorable events across the globe that Biden would have no control over. US oil production is INCREASING and will be at new record levels later this year or early next (although we still export much of that). High prices will just elicit more production (the unseen hand). The EIA predicts oversupply by later this year and prices under $3.00 for the US. Of course, much depends on Putin and how all that mess sorts out. But again, no $7 gas.
There is already a gas station here in SD at 6.50. 7 will be easy.
From yesterday: SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. "CBS 8 crews drove around the county Monday and spotted prices ranging from $4.29 a gallon to $5.18. Interestingly, prices varied by as much as 50 cents a gallon at stations that were less than a block apart; so it definitely pays to compare the prices at stations that are relatively close to each other."
Americans can "afford" any price for gasoline as long as they can put it on their credit cards. Once those are maxed out, what are they going to do?
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