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Ready to pay more at the pump?
Gasoline prices in Fresno already increased beyond $4 per gallon this week at some places in town.
And gas prices are projected to rise even more going into the summer in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.
A year ago, the national average for was $2.34 for a gallon of gas, according to a CNN Money report. These days, that national average has jumped to $2.81 per gallon.
Those in Fresno can probably add a dollar on top of the national price, with high state taxes and stringent standards for reformulating gasoline raising consumers’ costs in the Golden State.
Prices of crude oil and gasoline already had been steadily rising. Wednesday’s oil surge brought prices to its highest prices in more than three years, according to CBS News.
Trump’s decision on Iran could mean less oil on the world market from Iran, and higher gas prices.
Iran increased its oil production by 1 million barrels per day after sanctions were lifted back in 2016. Some of that oil now will be pulled from the market, experts project.
But it’s not clear how high prices will go.
57 Comments on "Ready to pay more at the pump?"
Cloggie on Thu, 10th May 2018 12:06 pm
https://www.telegraaf.nl/financieel/1949793/benzineprijzen-op-hoogste-niveau-in-drie-jaar
1.62 euro/liter = $7.3/gallon in Europe.
In 2008 it was nearly 2 euro/liter or $9/gallon.
These times could (hopefully) return. The higher the gasoline price, the higher the pressure to speed up the transition.
It is unlikely that Mother Nature will ever invoice its sun rays or gusts of wind.
deadly on Thu, 10th May 2018 1:44 pm
People have to pay their fair share mandate by imputed consumption.
Overconsumption, that is.
Don’t even have to own a car, you will pay a tax for consuming oil even if you have no means to consume fuel, you still have to play for fossil fuels.
Fossil fuel mandated taxes every citizen worldwide.
Ten percent, if you have income of a hundred grand, your fossil fuel mandated consumption tax will be ten grand, minimum.
If you earn less than fifty thousand dollars per year, you receive a credit of 5000 dollars. Low income fuel credit. The people with money will be required to provide revenue in order for the less fortunate to benefit.
It’s only fair.
If a CEO is earning 5 million per year, his mandated fuel consumption tax will be 500 grand.
Should be much objection, we have to make the system fair.
If you are homeless, you will receive a fuel tax credit of 5000 dollars, the IRS will issue checks..
The gov will find you, you’ll be standing in line.
Time to drink.
deadly on Thu, 10th May 2018 1:47 pm
Shouldn’t, not should.
Davy on Thu, 10th May 2018 1:58 pm
“It is unlikely that Mother Nature will ever invoice its sun rays or gusts of wind.“
True but everything else will come with a cost and
those costs will rise and fall with oil generally and more so the condition of the economy. No free lunches in this world I know of. There are always opportunity costs and trade-offs.
Cloggie on Thu, 10th May 2018 3:42 pm
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/05/10/california-requires-solar-panels-on-new-homes-5-years-after-1st-california-city-did-thumbs-nose-at-washington-d-c/
“California Requires Solar Panels On New Homes 5 Years After 1st California City Did”
Boat on Thu, 10th May 2018 4:18 pm
Clog
Yabut California has the 5th largest ecomomy in the world. One city or small country, pshaaa. One Calif,….O lala.
MASTERMIND on Thu, 10th May 2018 4:33 pm
Clogg
How are solar panels going to decrease oil demand?
MASTERMIND on Thu, 10th May 2018 4:34 pm
CLogg
Air Pollution Casts Shadow over Solar Energy Production
http://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/solar-pollution
Too much air pollution for solar panels to work very well….Ouch…
Cloggie on Thu, 10th May 2018 4:35 pm
One wonders if the solar panel clause also applies to new tent cities. What do you think boat?
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Orange-Countys-Biggest-Tent-City-Being-Cleared-Out-470613833.html
Boat on Thu, 10th May 2018 4:40 pm
Clog
Solar makes a tent shape. Good shade.
Cloggie on Thu, 10th May 2018 5:04 pm
You talk from experience Boat?
Boat on Thu, 10th May 2018 5:22 pm
Clog
You’ve never seen Survivor man? Shelters can be made out of a lot of stuff. You know, slice open a cow, remove guts, spend the night inside, just one of thousands of tricks.
makati1 on Thu, 10th May 2018 5:55 pm
Fat and Lazy Americans! Soon ot be blindsided by reality….
“It’s estimated that the average (American) person spends only 10% of their life actually working. … It’s been a while since we’ve consistently printed 3%-4% GDP, and we’re not likely to attain it anytime soon.” Or ever.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-10/how-did-americans-get-so-laxy
Fat, lazy, drugged up, dumbed down, shrinking purchasing power, warmongering Americans. More and more hated by the rest of the world. Desperate to start a big war for distraction. So desperate…
makati1 on Thu, 10th May 2018 5:56 pm
BTW: I had some business in the city so I was gone for a few days. It only reinforced my view of the Ps. No lazy here. Everyone has a business going or a side business or both.
Also: I saw the new movie: “Avengers: Infinity War” Very interesting as the ‘villain’, Thanos, could have retired to anywhere in the universe, but he retired to the Philippines!
“… there’s also something a little extra in it for Filipinos. You see by the end, Thanos (Josh Brolin) walks out of what appears to be a small hut to watch the sunset.
Just beyond him are terraced rice paddies that look like giant stairways on the slopes of a mountain. If that sounds familiar to you, it’s probably because it has been confirmed to be the Philippines’ famous Banaue Rice Terraces.
A representative from Disney told ABS-CBN News’ Marie Lozano that the filmmakers at Marvel Studios planned for Thanos to retreat to the Ifugao province following the events of the movie.”
http://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/04/26/18/yes-that-avengers-infinity-war-scene-is-in-ph
Great choice Thanos! I LMAO when I saw that scene.
Davy on Thu, 10th May 2018 6:06 pm
“BTW: I had some business in the city so I was gone for a few days. It only reinforced my view of the Ps. No lazy here. Everyone has a business going or a side business or both.”
3rd world, there are 100Mil people on a small archipelago the size of Arizona with a GDP similar to my state of Missouri with 16 times smaller population. You are hilarious to say the least.
MASTERMIND on Thu, 10th May 2018 6:24 pm
Madkat
I thought you had died of a stroke or something. Dont worry in the next decade you will die of starvation or conflict.
MASTERMIND on Thu, 10th May 2018 6:27 pm
Madkat
I have an honest question. Why do you care what America or Americans do? I mean you live far away now in a separate country and region. Why would you even care what the hell goes on here or with America in other places? It just seems really petty.
DerHundistlos on Thu, 10th May 2018 6:49 pm
So much for President Dump’s boasting, “Look at how low gas is. I did it. Thank me and my administration.”
Same with the stock market. Almost on a daily bases, Dump boasted about the increase in stock prices. Now, all we hear is the sound of crickets.
Grotesque.
onlooker on Thu, 10th May 2018 6:51 pm
Maybe the scientists should forward the Doomsday clock closer to midnight hehe
DMyers on Thu, 10th May 2018 6:52 pm
Will be interesting to see the price point where gas-guzzler owners start bidding for small cars.
I’m paying about $2.70 in NC. I like $1.75 better, but gas is still cheap.
MASTERMIND on Thu, 10th May 2018 6:59 pm
Remember what happened last time we elected a Republican? Nuff said.
MASTERMIND on Thu, 10th May 2018 7:16 pm
GOP candidate boasts he would ’round up criminal illegals’ himself in new ad
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/10/brian-kemp-georgia-gop-candidate-campaign-ad
Here is the ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q1cfjh6VfE
makati1 on Thu, 10th May 2018 9:06 pm
MM, I want the Us to be incapable of pursuing war any longer. I want it taken down to the level of the people it destroys (3rd world). THAT is why I pay attention to what is happening there and why I post negative articles about the ’empire’. I will continue to do so as long as I can.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I am in very good health. I got a physical while I was there and it only confirmed my health status as very good. No problems. You should be so lucky.
MASTERMIND on Thu, 10th May 2018 9:29 pm
Madkat
And what would you gain if the US stop waging war? I don’t understand how that would effect your life in Asia in any particular fashion? I just don’t understand why you would care about something that has no effect on you? I mean there are worse things in the world and more death than what the US causes everyday from overpopulation. Everyday around 26k people die of starvation in Africa, most of which are children. And that equals around 9 million people a year. And I have never heard you talk about that?
MASTERMIND on Thu, 10th May 2018 9:34 pm
Madkat
And I don’t deny the US waging war like they should not. And they kill many people. But they also donate more goods and money to charity, that saves more people in the world, than any other country. And we take in more immigrants than any other country in the world. Which also ends up saving many peoples lives. You seem to only want to judge us through a vacuum and not a broad minded approach.
Sissyfuss on Thu, 10th May 2018 9:53 pm
Derhund, Trumpenstein does not have an honest bone in his body. Read an article by a lawyer who was involved in a lawsuit against his unholiest in 1990. Trump attacked this lawyer throughout the 4 months trial for questioning his net worth. In the end Trumps accountants had to disclose the numbers which stated that future Grifter 45 had a net worth of minus $295 million. He was living off loans which may or may not have originated in Russia.
Now he is living off payoffs from Fortune 500
companies seeking access through Cohen. You can fool all of the deplorables all of the time.
makati1 on Thu, 10th May 2018 10:10 pm
MM, do you think it is just a “coincidence” that ISIS pops up in the Ps a bit after the new Ps prez tells Trumpet that he is turning to Russian and China and away from the Us? Any country that will not kiss the imperial ass gets the “terrorist” treatment. The Ps doesn’t need, or want, the Us interference in their sovereign business. Ditto for most of the other 180+ countries of the world. The Us needs to go down and now.
You are twisting facts to to try to support baby killer America. Just like that deluded cousin of your, Davy. People die, but the Us kills/murders/plunders. Yuge difference. The Us sells death and advertises the MIC with their illegal wars and attacks on the innocent. The Us is going down. Billions will cheer the day that happens. I will be one of them.
Boat on Thu, 10th May 2018 10:15 pm
Yet Trump attracted many on this board, cough, then dumped him later. They like that strong leadership style. Yes, Trump was to be their savior.
Women haters the lot of them. lol Y’all really need to reaccess your core beliefs. Too close to how Sharia Law supporters feel. Free your women and hug a Jew today.
Boat on Thu, 10th May 2018 10:17 pm
mak
Could you take me to where the pile of plunder is?
makati1 on Thu, 10th May 2018 10:37 pm
Boat, you enjoy it every day. Look around you. Americans consume ~24% of the worlds resources and yet are only ~4% of its people. There fore, YOU consume SIX times what is your rightful share. Plunder in other words. Taken, often at gun point or thru your corrupt government’s manipulation of the faux USD.
Boat on Thu, 10th May 2018 11:04 pm
mak
The rich around the world abuse the energy. Planes, multiple huge mansions etc. But in their defense they buy the shyt. You read reports of free shyt from Germany, Japan or Italy after getting their asses kicked? Where is that pile of plunder. Seems to me our plunder has been debt. Hell we have been bringing in the poor since day one. Is that plunder?
MASTERMIND on Thu, 10th May 2018 11:41 pm
We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth, there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world, here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.“
– Buenaventura Durruti
– Buenaventura Durruti
makati1 on Fri, 11th May 2018 12:59 am
MM, amid your delusions do you ever see yourself as a responsible adult? I don’t. You are even stupider than Boat in your use of quote posts with no intelligent comment.
makati1 on Fri, 11th May 2018 1:04 am
Boat you are being bled by those rich and it is YOU who pay for their shit. You have no rational rebuttal just random comments not tied in a meaningful way.
YOU are consuming at least SIX times YOUR share of the world’s resources. that makes you just as guilty as anyone else in America. Trying to point the finger of guilt at someone else does not make you innocent. It makes you a hypocrite. A typical American.
Cloggie on Fri, 11th May 2018 2:27 am
Hell we have been bringing in the poor since day one. Is that plunder?
Yes, you are plundering the future of your own children:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/10/26/the-new-america/
You read reports of free shyt from Germany, Japan or Italy after getting their asses kicked?
Any idea Boat, whose ass is going to be kicked next, by the rest of the world?
Cloggie on Fri, 11th May 2018 2:31 am
We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth, there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world, here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.“
– Buenaventura Durruti
Last time I checked this ghastly Buenaventura Durruti character got his ass kicked, to borrow a very American phrase from Boat (Europeans kick in the nuts, it is seen as more effective).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenaventura_Durruti
Davy on Fri, 11th May 2018 4:41 am
“YOU are consuming at least SIX times YOUR share of the world’s resources. that makes you just as guilty as anyone else in America. Trying to point the finger of guilt at someone else does not make you innocent. It makes you a hypocrite. A typical American.”
3rd world, shut up, first your generation is responsible for this mess so that means YOU. Secondly tell your Asian friends to quit having so many babies and while you’re at it tell China to quit destroying the planet. Not like you dumbasses don’t deserve responsibility too.
Davy on Fri, 11th May 2018 4:45 am
“Any idea Boat, whose ass is going to be kicked next, by the rest of the world?”
No one has an idea but we do know who got their ass kicked twice in the 20th century. That is science and documented in history.
Cloggie on Fri, 11th May 2018 5:44 am
No one has an idea but we do know who got their ass kicked twice in the 20th century. That is science and documented in history.
Yes, that intentional mass murder is well documented…
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v04/v04p135_Weber.html
…and the revenge for that is underway. Boy do we have scores to settle. There is no way you can escape your fate. Forget about your Italian escape route, you are the enemy of the white race and will be treated as such. Your owner George Soros is not going to help as he will be in trouble too much himself. If you want to survive, shoot Feds.
Eurasia-USA
Place your bets now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Oc2JIn8No
Davy on Fri, 11th May 2018 5:46 am
nedernazi, it sucks getting your ass kicken twice and in your case the second time both ways. No wonder you are so sore about it.
MASTERMIND on Fri, 11th May 2018 7:00 am
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
-Buenaventura Durruti
MASTERMIND on Fri, 11th May 2018 9:10 am
Americans are more anxious than before
https://theconversation.com/americans-are-more-anxious-than-before-96318
Cloggie on Fri, 11th May 2018 9:39 am
nedernazi, it sucks getting your ass kicken twice and in your case the second time both ways. No wonder you are so sore about it.
I wouldn’t gloat too much about it if I were you. Because things are going to be different from now on and nothing is forgotten…
https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/italie-stevent-af-op-ongekend-radicale-regeringscoalitie~b9407743/?utm_source=VK
Ultra-rightwing government coming in Italy. Anti-immigrant (“we will clean the streets”) and pro-Putin and anti-Soros. They are anti-EU and anti-euro, but government Godfather Berlusconi, who enables the government without participating in it, and who is pro-Europe (and wants to turn it into a new super power, for which we have all the means), will know how to prevent the worst (Ital-exit).
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/908338/Berlusconi-Italy-election-2018-EU-army-Brussels-Berlusconi-nuevo-look
But perhaps it is a good idea for Italy (and Greece) to reintroduce the Lira and accept the euro as a parallel business currency, since nobody outside Italy is going to accept the Lira.
Poor Davy. This George Soros Butt-boy from the Ozarks no longer has the Italy escape route. Italy, the fascist original, is too right-wing for American notoriously Natzi shouters. I would kindly advise this traitor of European civilization to set up shop in Baltimore, in a “mixed area”, in order to escape the wrath of the deplorables who surround him (and we 640 million continental Europeans, nuclear armed to the teeth, already have in our pocket). You can get instructions from your owner millimind about the rules of engagement in such a mixed area: simply give your daughter away to the first who threatens to call you a “racist”. You are about to find out what it means to live in the USSR 2.0., that is George Orwell’s Oceania (“The Judaic State”).
And boy do you deserve it.
Davy on Fri, 11th May 2018 11:02 am
“Poor Davy. This George Soros Butt-boy from the Ozarks no longer has the Italy escape route.”
I can go to Italy anytime I like neder, and BTW soros sucks. You are just a twisted extremist lost in delusions and lies and unable to greet reality.
MASTERMIND on Fri, 11th May 2018 11:43 am
The Tesla Semi Is Dead
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4172159-tesla-semi-dead
Price is right (Fail Horn)……
makati1 on Fri, 11th May 2018 6:11 pm
Davy is in deep denial, Cloggie. He is trapped in the Police State Gulag and knows it. He is frustrated because his warped delusions are not shared by the rest of us. The Us Baby Killer nation is going down, hard. I cannot think of another country that deserves it more, unless it is Israel. The Great Leveling continues.
I’m sure he will have some immature reply.
MASTERMIND on Fri, 11th May 2018 6:40 pm
Madkat
Financial catastrophe resulting from resource depletion and a debasement of value of fiat currencies. Then a 3-month window of tyranny and government lockdown on citizens, followed by a 3-month window of absolute carnage and death. Then, a period of about 6 months of slow die-off and that’s pretty much that. Oh, and starting sometime within the next 5 years or so…
https://imgur.com/a/pYxKa
Davy on Fri, 11th May 2018 6:50 pm
“I’m sure he will have some immature reply.”
3rd world, it’s hard to top your immaturity.
DerHundistlos on Fri, 11th May 2018 7:43 pm
MASTERMIND:
The last time the American people foolishly handed control of all branches of government to the Republicans was in 1928 and just 18 months later the country was thrust into The Great depression. Then it took FDR and a Democratic congress to return prosperity to America.
DerHundistlos on Fri, 11th May 2018 7:45 pm
Siss, well stated as usual for you!!!!!!!