Yes! In my yuppy/gentrified SE MI college town, gas was $4.99 for unleaded, but now down to about $4.89 at the expensive place (where our local USPS gasses up). Last week I was in North Myrtle Beach SC and it was $3.89/gal. unleaded. As we all know, here in Michigan you cannot get from Pt. A to Pt. B without a car and "as goes the automotive industry, so goes Michigan," whether directly in heavy industry, or indirectly via tourism. We ran off our Canadian visitors with tariffs and now we'll hamstring the summer tourists with gas prices. Not so happy in Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.
Most important life event first. Congrats on the birth of a baby daughter. Human families are to be celebrated. I hope things go well at your house. On gas, I paid $6.09 this morning on the way home from my weekly shop in Pinole, CA, where, fortunately, at Trader Joe’s, tuna is still $1.99 a can. The station a block away showed prices about 50 cents a gallon higher. Thirty-eight million or so Californians are paying top dollar for gas. It’s just a demographic observation, but news stories on gas prices originating in the Northeast don’t pack the punch they deserve to have because those of us out here where the land mass runs out and dreams are routinely dashed are paying so much more. Four-something a gallon sounds like a steal!
No way. We finally got rid of Cawthorne here in NC? He fits in even better with the Florida Man crowd, and now the FL police can take care of his reckless driving. The entire state of NC wishes him luck in the primary.
There was a great line in “Fiddler on the Roof” when one of the characters says, “May the good Lord keep the Tsar-and keep him away from our village!” NC must have breathed a collective sign of relief when Cawthorne left town.
I think Susan Collins epitomizes the problem for Americans. She owns stock in CONOCOPHILLIPS so her investments are doing well. Not so for her voters in the state of Maine and for the other 49 states. Probably received millions from the gas and oil industry over her career, which again, helped her; her voters, not so much. She won’t do anything to rein in Felon Trump for this war, or for anything else, but wants the voters to forget all this and re-elect her. Take out Collins. Put in any Republican and you have the same pattern. Mention it and Republicans start hyperventilating over Nancy Pelosi and Hunter Biden as to how bad they are. And in the case of Nancy Pelosi, and probably others, her husband has had a long and successful career in finance, which she benefitted from, and why shouldn’t she? It’s his field. I would prefer that the rules for insider trading be strengthened, and heads should roll if there is any impropriety involved. That’s not okay for just one party, and lately is just one party, Republicans. Hegseth anybody?
No Doug it is not. What starts smelling like three day old fish is the lack of oversight our Congress has on policing its own over insider trading. I don’t criticize Collins for owning stock in an oil company. I want to know her record of her voting on issues that help the voters or her and her fellow Republicans. The price of gasoline rose quickly, but the decline always lags. I have taken enough economics courses to question this.
It should be noted that the $3.91 for Georgia's gas prices are lower than typical because Gov. Kemp suspended the gas tax for 60 days when prices first started to spike. That'll expire May 19, and without and extension we'll see an immediate jump of 33 cents (37 for diesel)
" . . . even if the increases [in gas prices] have little to do with the administration's policies."
Say what? The absurd war with Iran is an administration policy, dictated by the orange narcissist-felon, the head of the administration, and the direct cause of the price surge.
By the way, isn't it about time you, and the rest of the media, differentiated between 'gas' (a vapor) and 'gasoline' (a fluid). They're different, though both are hydrocarbons.
Please try to be more clear, both in the reality [the gasoline prices, not 'the gas prices'] and in the correct terminology that differentiates between a vapor and a fluid.
And if you think the gas (NOT gasoline) market is trivial, and the differentiating irrelevant, consider that there are 60 million gas (NOT gasoline) space heaters, 58 million water heaters, 40 million cooking devices and 20 million clothes driers (178 million total). Gas (NOT gasoline) is a huge market and gas (NOT gasoline) cost tracks gasoline (NOT gas) prices.
Thank you for this. There is no need for a footnote. That sentence in the body of the paragraph is ridiculous. And the contortion of adding a footnote with the actual facts was strange. How about just writing a fact based sentence in the paragraph and losing the footnote?
Exactly my point. The text is 100% incorrect. The administration's policy is causing the gasoline (and the gas, and the other essential products that transit the Strait) to surge (please, enough with the hyperbolic 'skyrocket' the media love).
You have to laugh at Republicans who tout how much oil we have to their less and less gullible followers. People hear that nonsense and then think, "If we have so much oil, why is it so expensive?" They don't know that oil prices are controlled by a cartel much stronger than the drug cartels elsewhere in the world. They're stronger because they're made up of countries who supposedly (uh-huh) follow the law.
"Drill, baby, drill" has always been a bunch of baloney. The companies will drill in the US when and where they want to, even if they have approved leases.
"Oil of oy vey"
Absolutely fantastic. No notes.
Welcome back and congratulations to you and your wife!
Congratulations on the new addition to your family, Joe!
P.S. How in the hell could Madison Cawthorn loan his campaign half a mil!? How did he make his money!?
Yes! In my yuppy/gentrified SE MI college town, gas was $4.99 for unleaded, but now down to about $4.89 at the expensive place (where our local USPS gasses up). Last week I was in North Myrtle Beach SC and it was $3.89/gal. unleaded. As we all know, here in Michigan you cannot get from Pt. A to Pt. B without a car and "as goes the automotive industry, so goes Michigan," whether directly in heavy industry, or indirectly via tourism. We ran off our Canadian visitors with tariffs and now we'll hamstring the summer tourists with gas prices. Not so happy in Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.
Welcome back! We missed you, Joe!
in trump 1, he blew up jcpoa, an internationally-monitored inspection program that allow iran to process uranium to levels for civilian uses
so after that, of course iran starts processing to weapons grade & trump 2 starts a war
but, like venezuela, it was never about anything but oil
Exactly. Trump personally enabled Iran to begin high level enriching nuclear material.
Congratulations to you and your family! Will filled in wonderfully but it's great to have you back.
Buddy Carter: "high gas prices are the work of the Democrats...." What a load of bull manure.
Most important life event first. Congrats on the birth of a baby daughter. Human families are to be celebrated. I hope things go well at your house. On gas, I paid $6.09 this morning on the way home from my weekly shop in Pinole, CA, where, fortunately, at Trader Joe’s, tuna is still $1.99 a can. The station a block away showed prices about 50 cents a gallon higher. Thirty-eight million or so Californians are paying top dollar for gas. It’s just a demographic observation, but news stories on gas prices originating in the Northeast don’t pack the punch they deserve to have because those of us out here where the land mass runs out and dreams are routinely dashed are paying so much more. Four-something a gallon sounds like a steal!
No way. We finally got rid of Cawthorne here in NC? He fits in even better with the Florida Man crowd, and now the FL police can take care of his reckless driving. The entire state of NC wishes him luck in the primary.
There was a great line in “Fiddler on the Roof” when one of the characters says, “May the good Lord keep the Tsar-and keep him away from our village!” NC must have breathed a collective sign of relief when Cawthorne left town.
I see now that he’s kept up his driving shenanigans in Florida. Good for him.
I think Susan Collins epitomizes the problem for Americans. She owns stock in CONOCOPHILLIPS so her investments are doing well. Not so for her voters in the state of Maine and for the other 49 states. Probably received millions from the gas and oil industry over her career, which again, helped her; her voters, not so much. She won’t do anything to rein in Felon Trump for this war, or for anything else, but wants the voters to forget all this and re-elect her. Take out Collins. Put in any Republican and you have the same pattern. Mention it and Republicans start hyperventilating over Nancy Pelosi and Hunter Biden as to how bad they are. And in the case of Nancy Pelosi, and probably others, her husband has had a long and successful career in finance, which she benefitted from, and why shouldn’t she? It’s his field. I would prefer that the rules for insider trading be strengthened, and heads should roll if there is any impropriety involved. That’s not okay for just one party, and lately is just one party, Republicans. Hegseth anybody?
It is not a crime to own a publicly traded stock, especially if you disclose your investment. There is plenty to criticize her for, but not this.
No Doug it is not. What starts smelling like three day old fish is the lack of oversight our Congress has on policing its own over insider trading. I don’t criticize Collins for owning stock in an oil company. I want to know her record of her voting on issues that help the voters or her and her fellow Republicans. The price of gasoline rose quickly, but the decline always lags. I have taken enough economics courses to question this.
It should be noted that the $3.91 for Georgia's gas prices are lower than typical because Gov. Kemp suspended the gas tax for 60 days when prices first started to spike. That'll expire May 19, and without and extension we'll see an immediate jump of 33 cents (37 for diesel)
Welcome back, Joe, and congratulations to you and your wife!
Former Chairman Rogers is a HUGE BIGLY DISAPPOINTMENT! SAD
Talk about mixed signals!!!
" . . . even if the increases [in gas prices] have little to do with the administration's policies."
Say what? The absurd war with Iran is an administration policy, dictated by the orange narcissist-felon, the head of the administration, and the direct cause of the price surge.
By the way, isn't it about time you, and the rest of the media, differentiated between 'gas' (a vapor) and 'gasoline' (a fluid). They're different, though both are hydrocarbons.
Please try to be more clear, both in the reality [the gasoline prices, not 'the gas prices'] and in the correct terminology that differentiates between a vapor and a fluid.
And if you think the gas (NOT gasoline) market is trivial, and the differentiating irrelevant, consider that there are 60 million gas (NOT gasoline) space heaters, 58 million water heaters, 40 million cooking devices and 20 million clothes driers (178 million total). Gas (NOT gasoline) is a huge market and gas (NOT gasoline) cost tracks gasoline (NOT gas) prices.
Picky, picky? I don't think so.
Thank you for this. There is no need for a footnote. That sentence in the body of the paragraph is ridiculous. And the contortion of adding a footnote with the actual facts was strange. How about just writing a fact based sentence in the paragraph and losing the footnote?
Exactly my point. The text is 100% incorrect. The administration's policy is causing the gasoline (and the gas, and the other essential products that transit the Strait) to surge (please, enough with the hyperbolic 'skyrocket' the media love).
You need to read the footnote.
I did. Body and footnote are not in harmony.
Agree to disagree....
You have to laugh at Republicans who tout how much oil we have to their less and less gullible followers. People hear that nonsense and then think, "If we have so much oil, why is it so expensive?" They don't know that oil prices are controlled by a cartel much stronger than the drug cartels elsewhere in the world. They're stronger because they're made up of countries who supposedly (uh-huh) follow the law.
"Drill, baby, drill" has always been a bunch of baloney. The companies will drill in the US when and where they want to, even if they have approved leases.