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$2.00 Gas Here We Come!

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Posted By: ladydawgfan, 5/4/2025 4:08:16 PM

Let’s just get this out of the way: $2.00 gas isn’t a fantasy. It’s not a fairytale. It’s not even a MAGA fever dream. It’s a freight train with Trump at the throttle and a full tank of American energy roaring down the tracks. Naturally, this week the usual suspects freaked out. President Trump had the audacity to suggest—on social media, no less—that we’re on the verge of $2 gas. Cue the blue-check meltdown: “Disinformation!” “It’s impossible!” “He’s lying!” But here’s the problem with that narrative: he’s not wrong. Let’s check the scoreboard, shall we? On May 3, 2025, the national average for a gallon of regular gas was $3.17.

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It's $2.79 here in NE FL and holding, but this is also a touristy area, so higher gas prices aren't surprising.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: homefry 5/4/2025 4:25:07 PM (No. 1945197)
How about 1.77 per? Thats what I was paying before when Trump was prez.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bhkat 5/4/2025 4:27:35 PM (No. 1945201)
Filled up at 2.37 per gallon. NE Missouri
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Reply 3 - Posted by: chumley 5/4/2025 4:32:27 PM (No. 1945205)
Mine has gone up 40 cents a gallon in the last week. It was $3.30 an hour ago, and I am in WV. I wish people would quit telling me how much cheaper things are under Trump. I am seeing just the opposite. Every trip to the store costs me more than the time before.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 5/4/2025 4:36:05 PM (No. 1945206)
Current gas price here in eastern KS is $2.49, $2 sounds good.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: danoso 5/4/2025 4:52:59 PM (No. 1945209)
I’m all for lower prices but there comes a point where hydraulic fracking becomes economically infeasible. Which means we’re going to have to recover using conventional methods to avoid becoming dependent on foreign sources. I’m sure Trump and Co. knows all this but lower prices will cause some disruption in our domestic production.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: vhs68 5/4/2025 5:03:25 PM (No. 1945210)
$2.39 in okc last fillup @ sams.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 5/4/2025 5:17:35 PM (No. 1945214)
Just paid $4.17 and well over a buck of that is 100% Gavin so it should be in the 2s.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 5/4/2025 5:51:16 PM (No. 1945223)
The lower $2/gallon pricing is quite possible. Crude oil spot prices have dropped into the high $50 range. But not seeing reduced prices in western Colorado. $3.10/gal is still common for regular unleaded.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: crashnburn 5/4/2025 5:51:47 PM (No. 1945224)
I don't like paying high gas prices any more than the next guy, but part of my portfolio is in energy companies, so I have a built-in hedge against high energy prices. Still, energy drives the economy, literally, so low energy prices allow the economy to boom, so the rest of my portfolio benefits from low energy prices. I remember paying 24.9 cents per gallon in 1976. I'm not holding my breath until those prices come around again.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Venturer 5/4/2025 6:20:39 PM (No. 1945239)
I saw a couple for $2.95 today, it's coming down slowly.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Timber Queen 5/4/2025 6:21:24 PM (No. 1945242)
In my northern California rural, mountain town regular gas is $4.69. It has been that price for about a month. All three gas stations at the main intersection, where Hwy 20 meets Hwy 101, for several weeks have had the same price. Usually the Chevron is five cents more than the "economy" stations on the other corners. I wonder how long the "Chevron" station will have that franchise. Although Chevron began in California, it has announced entirely leaving the state and that includes it's wells and refineries. Atlantic-Richfield also announced the closing of their almost century old wells and refineries in Wilmington (Los Angeles). I dream of the day the residents in the coastal counties join the rest of California's real estate and "go red". It's time to Make California Golden Again!
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Reply 12 - Posted by: BeatleJeff 5/4/2025 6:25:26 PM (No. 1945246)
I just paid $2,89 - still higher than I would like, but better than what we were paying under Old Demented.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: cor-vet 5/4/2025 7:41:40 PM (No. 1945292)
Got some for $2.49/gal but Chevron is still $2.79. As an old Chevron retiree, that's not hurting my stock.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Strike3 5/4/2025 7:47:08 PM (No. 1945295)
Higher than average gas prices are totally at the mercy of state taxation. Get on your governor. Sure am glad that I held off buying that Tesla.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: curious1 5/4/2025 8:21:44 PM (No. 1945311)
We need to build several new refineries and expand the ones we still have. (And shutdown the watermelons that try to block their construction.)
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Reply 16 - Posted by: thefield 5/4/2025 8:38:19 PM (No. 1945316)
Here in ca it wil $20 gallons
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Reply 17 - Posted by: varkdriver 5/5/2025 1:16:05 AM (No. 1945375)
The good folks in Cali and Washington State will continue to see prices well above $4.40/gallon for regular for the foreseeable future. State taxes keep it high, and no end in sight, unfortunately
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Reply 18 - Posted by: homefry 5/5/2025 7:39:09 AM (No. 1945450)
Reply 3 - Posted by: chumley 5/4/2025 4:32:27 PM (No. 1945205) Mine has gone up 40 cents a gallon in the last week. It was $3.30 an hour ago, and I am in WV. I wish people would quit telling me how much cheaper things are under Trump. I am seeing just the opposite. Every trip to the store costs me more than the time before. Yeah, last time I talked to Don he told me he was gonna make sure ol' chumley paid more that everybody else.
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