[katana]

Short answer: Taxes. Cross from Ohio into Pennsylvania and you will pay forty to fifty cents more per gallon for the same fuel coming out of the same refineries. But also, in 2018 inflation adjusted dollars (minus the aforesaid taxes) gas doesn't cost much more than it did back in the 1970's, when $5.00 an hour was a starting union wage in the auto factory where I worked and which I felt almost middle class receiving.

Other variances in pricing: Summer demand, expanding economy, higher numbers of employed consumers driving to work and confident enough to take driving vacations once more, and limited refinery capacity courtesy of your friendly EPA and environmental whingers.

[huckfillary]

Thank you. I don’t think we’ve built a new oil refinery in 50 years, probably more. That would be good thing for DJT to do—lift the EPA ban on new oil refineries.