Jumped almost a dollar at our locale in a little over a week and a half. Obviously more Putin stickin’ it too us. At least that’s what one acquaintance tells us. Lowest in Reno per GasBuddy is $4.88. Waiting for someone to tell us it’s the switch from summer to winter blends.......
Waiting for the inevitable refinery fires that shut down prodution.
Runup in price shortly before the election makes Biden, and the entire Democrat Mafia, look BAD. And there is just not a whole lot any of them can do about it it, certainly not in the short term.
All that patient piecework in trying to soothe the voting public into not cursing the Democrats outright has just disappeared down the hopper, and is going to be spit out all over the landscape.
Even the fake numbers on the rate of inflation are now sure to rise sharply, fast approaching 10% or more, as fuel costs escalate to match the mounting pressure on prices of everything else.
An uncommonly astute observation was made years ago, “It’s the economy, stupid!”