Gas prices fall under 3 bucks a gallon at majority of U.S. stations

So we should see a resurgence of those "I did that" Biden stickers at the pumps right? Lmao
- They blame him when prices are up. It's only fair if he gets credit when they're down.
  
  My sweet summer child, that is not how this works!! Silly you
  
  Pointing out conservative hypocrisy is a waste of time and energy.
- Just the thought of some MAGA asshole feeling the need to peel the thing off is mildly satisfying.

If the Biden campaign was smart they'd have "I did that" stickers on his website
- Looks like it's just Dark Brandon stuff still. I do not know if this is his official website or something someone just runs out of their basement.
  https://shop.joebiden.com/

Just wondering what sort of mental gymnastics the maga lurkers here are comforting themselves with when they see this.
- "Sleepy Joe Biden is lowering gas prices in a partisan attempt to win reelection. The second the election is over, he'll raise gas prices to $5 a gallon and require all new cars to be electric! I know this is true because I saw a post on Facebook about it!!!"
  
  Fuck I hate how plausible that actually is. Not what you just said ofc, I’m not an idiot, but that people will actually say that unironically
- Gas was expensive because the big bad democrats (very weak, sad!) put all their green new deals on it. Something about a hunting laptop too, whatever that is. This is also the market reacting early to that one former president's expected return to office. If he doesn't end up getting back in, then it was a delayed response to all of his efforts in office before.
  Can't let small matters like truth and reality get in the way of an agenda.
  
  Bannon rubbing his disheveled chin between sips of gin, "Hmmm.. Okay, okay... This could work!"
- I mean...I'm definitely left-leaning but it's kind of nonsense that the president affects gas prices in the short term to begin with.
  
  I'd grant he has maybe 10% influence at best considering foreign policy deals, global (in)stability, and control of the SPR but I'm generally in agreement.
  I just like to use what Republicans always (wrongfully) cry about against them.

On one hand I'm very envious at your 0.72€ per liter as todays price here is 1.77€ in my little German town. On the other hand thats maybe not the right way to get people to choose fuel economic cars/EV/public transport.
- Just got back from Germany. Your transit system is heaven to this American. Never let it die. Even the fact that two of my trains were heavily delayed and one was cancelled, I was still in awe of it all; it's such an inspiring set of infrastructure.
- I think that is the whole point of the pricing strategy. Our fuel carries A LOT of taxes, theirs don't.
  
  And yet people regularly call for a gas tax holiday when times are hard in the U.S.
  
  Aye, that's right.

puts on tinfoil hat
EVs are starting to make a dent in the market place and oil producing countries don't like that so they lower oil prices to keep people driving ICE (Internal Combustion Engines) vehicles.
takes off tinfoil hat
I'm sure it's more complicated than that
- Prices are always lower in the winter. It'll be back to $4.00 in the summer.
- The single reason that gas is sold cheap in the United States is because the government subsidizes the hell out of it
  
  I'd like to see real, not falsely deflated, gas prices in the US. Ideally, it would create a pissed off nation that would force governance to actually take the concept of public transport seriously for the first time in over a century.
  The reality is, it would just harm so many people in such a terrible way. Exactly because our transport infrastructure is so terrible, people would literally be stranded, unable to afford fuel to carry out the basics of their daily lives.
  Big oil dug us a big terrible hole to get out of.
- puts on plastic wrap hat
  EVs are starting to make a dent in the market place and oil demand is dropping because there are fewer cars on the road that use it, combined with the fact that the holiday travel season and its predictable effect on demand have ended
- Congratulations on discovering the radical fact that, in the face of declining demand, businesses generally drop prices.
  You're never gonna guess what happens when demand increases or if supply drops!
  
  I’m sure I’m not the only one that doesn’t find being an absolute dick about stuff funny.

usa fuel has always been obscenely cheap
- Heavier taxation in other countries. Plus, we pump our own oil these days.
- Yet, people cry, moan, and removed every time it goes up just a bit.
  
  What else are we supposed to complain about?

I'm sure the front page of fox News is thanking Biden for that
- THANKS OB…iden.
- crickets.

"I did that!"

God damn sleepy Joe lowering gas prices, just who does he think he is??
- All those 'I did this' stickers are really paying off now.
  
  I torment a couple of my coworkers over that
- I've no shit heard my Republican family talking about how it's going to tank the economy.
- Thank Obama!
- Even Sleepy Joe knows elections are coming up soon

- I was wondering what would happen with those stickers. Thanks for beating me. I've not heard my conservative family thank Joe for this.

Not seeing a lot of these around.
- I'm gonna start putting them out just to piss off magats

:cries in California:
- As a Californian our gas prices suck, but when compared to minimum wage it’s not bad at all. Minimum wage is $16 an hour and $20 an hour for fast food workers by April. That means gas at $4 here is either 1/4 or 1/5 of your hourly pay per gallon. Vs a state where gas’s is 2.75 but your minimum wage is $7.25… that’s about 1/3. I always try to look at it from that perspective, especially for the poorest/minimum wage worker in California. They’re the ones that really notice and deal with high gas prices.
  
  But also imagine that every thing else is also more expensive.
  
  But 4 and 5 > 3 so 1/4 and 1/5 > 1/3 it’s actually more expensive
  /s

- I remember paying $0.699/gal in the early 2000s. My fuel taxes are now $0.719/gal so I'll definitely never see that price again. Taxes are high enough. Especially when there are no non-car options available.

You listen here God damnit, when I fill up my f650 truck boat truck I want to take out a payday loan it hurts so bad!! Wait until my mutant oompa loompa gets back in office and he's going to show you what's what MEOW!!!11
- You're probably making money with that F650 so its just an expense. Unless you have a F650 because of the tiny pee pee.
  
  Tiny pp but I just got out of the pool

I'm surprised that the attacks off of Yemen aren't causing oil tankers to go the long way around Africa and raising prices. Though I guess America has become a net gas exporter, so maybe we are finally insulated from supply problems on the other side of the word.
- Oil price is determined by the global market, so it's nearly the same everywhere. If for some reason oil was much cheaper in the U.S., the oil companies would have tankers export it to other places, simultaneously increasing the price in the U.S., and lowering the price globally until it's about the same everywhere. I'm pretty sure it's actually more abstract and instantaneous than that though, using the futures markets to set the price, which is why gas stations change their prices so often. I.e. we will never be insulated from oil supply problems.

Still $3.34 here in PA.
- I went past one in our suburbs at $3.99 tonight. We're just special here in E WA.
- Came down here to say this, fuck PAs gas tax. Also has the highest tolls by like, double.
  
  Ha, I'd love to talk more shit about how I hate the East Coast and all the stupid toll roads, but there's one way up north here.

Cries in 93 octane tune

Definitely not here, where regular is still 3.89 and diesel is still 4.99

Be quiet or Saudi Arabia will cut production right before the election again.

Cries in western NY

And then there's California.
https://www.gasbuddy.com/gaspricemap?lat=38.822395&lng=-96.591588&z=4
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-11/four-charts-explain-why-californian-gas-prices-are-so-high

Not in Washington State.

Meanwhile Australians are paying ~$2 per litre! ... No dinosaurs died here, apparently.
- Try again

Weird, almost as if there's a major election coming up later this year...
- President pressing that big red button labelled "lower gas prices". Tut.

They've actually been going up since Christmas.
- Hmmmmm, do we trust the news article linked with more than one expert quoted and a bunch of actual figures, or some random person on Lemmy with no data to back their claim? What a puzzler...
  
  https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=MO
  Open the Kansas City tab.
  Price go up.