Price of gas jumps to a national average
of $3.61 a gallon - up almost a dollar
on last year - as price of oil spikes
following Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Posted By: Ribicon, 2/28/2022 1:26:07 PM
American drivers are paying more than $100 to fill up their gas tanks in some parts of the country as prices at the pumps spike due to rising oil prices after Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine. The national average price of regular unleaded gasoline hit $3.61 on Monday, up eight cents from the average of $3.532 a week ago. It's also 25 cents higher than the average of $3.356 a month ago and nearly 90 cents from the average of $2.717 a year ago, according to the AAA Gas Price Index. Californians are paying the highest prices, shelling out an average of $4.827 for a gallon of regular
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And on that note, the American trucker convoy headed toward Washington, D.C., to disrupt Joe Biden’s State of the Union address is a really bad idea.
I know, I know, but hear me out. No doubt, I was a strong supporter of the Freedom Convoy in Canada.
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The Uniparty forbids USA from being energy independent, as a reduced standard of living for us benefits them somehow. We're not quite at the $4/gallon highs reached Dubya's Big Adventure in the Middle East, when he boldly refused to open ANWAR for drilling, but we're trying. Comparisons of then and now are also complicated by raging inflation and Dubya's ethanol mandate, which reduces the number of miles you get out of a gallon of gas.