Word On The Street: Pain At The Pump

You all think this is bad now.You all better hope we do not go back to these days for gas.
Odd–Even Gas rationing

Odd–Even Gas rationing is a method of rationing in which access to some resource is restricted to some of the population on any given day. In a common example, drivers of private vehicles may be allowed to drive, park, or purchase gasoline on alternating days, according to whether the last digit in their license plate is even or odd.

The Gas Shortage of the 1970’s - Oh, The Madness!
In June of 1973, the price of a gallon of gasoline was under 50 cents. By May of 1974, it had skyrocketed to over $4.00 per gallon.Gas stations limited the amount of gas that could be purchased on any one visit. The shortage was so dire that some gas stations couldn’t even buy gas and had to close because they had no gas to sell. President Nixon had asked gas station owners not to sell gas.

https://groovyhistory.com/the-gas-shortage-of-the-1970s-oh-the-madness

Long lines, no gas: 1979's odd-even gas rationing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFaQ_YXwuRI

I'm just going to point out with this line:
​“But I’m upset because we’re the ones suffering at the end of the day. I have kids ​‚and everything is blowing up."
That an actual kid's hospital was hit by a Russian bomb in Mariupol today.

" . . . she’s paying for her work vehicle’s gas tank to be filled out of her own pocket.

“It takes maybe two weeks to get reimbursed after you get your check,” Torres said. ""

This is absolutely not something that should be happening and it's reprehensible that ProPark is expecting employees to pay to fuel shuttle buses out of their own pockets <i>at all</i>, let alone carry that debt for two weeks. According to their website, ProPark "is a national mobility and parking management company, with over 35 years of experience and operations across the United States." You would think in all that time they would have found a few minutes to apply for a corporate credit account.

Any chance of a deeper investigation into this exploitative practice?

Odd that the company doesn’t provide a credit card. Price was double from a few years ago, prior to the latest fiasco.

You are going to the most expensive gas station in all of New Haven. Checking out the sign behind her, Forbes, a mile away, was forty cents less a gallon.

Yes, Peter. But someone else is paying in the end. She doesn't really care.

The multinational oil companies thank you and the war machine thanks you for the Ukraine war. They will reap untold profits .
The democrats and republicans are to blame for using WE THE PEOPLE as weapons against Russia.
You think we are helping Ukraine?? Think again, everybody. They and NATO WANT WAR.
I remember the first oil crisis and the lines at the pumps. Gas jumped to 75 cents in 1973-4.
We are pawns like everyone else. No bombs dropping on us.... yet.

Yet another reason to bicycle when possible or use an electric car.

If what Pro-Park is doing isn't illegal, it should be.
Yes, the price of everything has been going up for a while. Connecticut broadly has supported inflationary policies: massive government deficit spending, mandated labor cost inflation, and suppressing the supply of North American fossil fuel production. If we vote to block pipelines and drilling we should not complain when gasoline prices go up.

Madcap:
https://www.msf.org/kunduz-hospital-attack-depth
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/02/iraq.simonjeffery
https://reliefweb.int/report/iraq/iraq-hospitals-destroyed-air-strikes
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/07/a-short-history-of-u-s-bombing-of-civilian-facilities/
Note: The Palestine Hotel attack seems reasonable to me. It's pretty near impossible to tell the glint of a camera lens from the glint of a sniper rifle scope, and snipers had been active in the area.

WK is right. ProParks policy is terribly exploitative. They're essentially demandininterest free loans from their employees.

This is insane. Drill in the USA that will bring the prices down. If Trump was in office and this was happening he would be getting killed. I know it's not Biden's fault with Russia, in some ways it is because Putin thinks he is weak. But Biden did stop the Keystone pipeline so gas prices were already up. This is too much every bill, everything we buy is more expensive. Threefifths, I was a toddler during that time but I don't think this generation could handle that it would be madness.

Ok but the rising prices aren't a "a result of President Biden’s ban on oil from Russia" - it's a result of oil companies taking massive advantage of a volatile situation to artificially inflate the prices on a product they extracted months ago to line the pockets of their leaders and shareholders. The oil we get from Russia is a mere fraction of total imports.

The Democrats said the price of gas is because of # Putin’s Price hike , sure you can say the past 3 weeks and the dollar increase is because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but when Trump ( love or hate him ) left office the price of gas down the street from my house was 1.88 a gallon , 3 weeks ago before the war in Ukraine it was 3.39 a gallon . So the previous 14 months fall squarely on the shoulders of Biden and the Democrats policies . Closing the Keystone pipeline on President Biden’s first day of office not only killed thousands of jobs but stopped the Country from being Energy self sufficient for the first time since World War 2
The pipeline would bring in over 800 thousand barrels a day compared to the 600 thousand we were buying from Russia and our refineries were better equipped to refine the petroleum. The Dems could care less about how much we pay for gas , just ask John Kerry as he flys in his private jet talking about climate change . Or Chris Murphy who is totally out of touch with reality . At least Nancy Pelosi had common sense and said the other day we should not buy oil from Russia but when it was brought up for a vote by the Republican’s 214 Democrats voted against the proposal . So keep voting Democratic and looking forward to paying over 100 bucks to fill up you tank at a clip . Like I said about Trump everything he said during the campaign is coming true Higher gas , crime out of control and the highest inflation in 40 years .😳😳
P.S. anybody hear from Dr Fauci and the pandemic lately 🤔🤔

Riots, Covid, War what will they bring to us next? All of the Biden administrations failures and ills of our country will be Russia and Putin's fault. Biden and Nato wanted this war and they got it and we are all paying. A simple no go to Ukraine joining Nato would have stopped all of this. The War Machine hand in hand with our stupid Politicians(Red and Blue) march on. Folks it is a neverending game of distraction while they skim away the nations resources out from under your nose. $31,000,000,000,000 in National Debt and snowballing faster by the second. Inflation? Debt doesn't matter....deficits don't matter......Wake Up!!!

alluneedtoknow & Ozzie611: The keystone pipeline is irrelevant to this discussion. It wouldn't be completed and operational for years.

Ozzie611: Literally what... you clearly do not know the basics of economics. When Trump was in office there was a huge supply of oil and demand was incredibly low so of course it was cheap. If by "energy sufficient" you mean energy independent then thats another miss, because the oil would be imported from Canada. And this would all happen years from now so again, irrelevant. You ignore the fact that under Biden the US has had the highest average annual crude oil production. You are also flat out lying... yesterday the House passed bipartisan legislation banning Russian energy imports (yes that includes oil) and was passed 414-17 (only 2 Dems voted against it).

Ozzie. Care to check back as to when Oil prices are this high? That’s right, 2008, under President Bush.
Not quite as simple as people think for the factors that control oil prices.
I haven’t heard from Fauci recently, it must be because of the great job Trump did in anticipating the epidemic. His solutions were top-notch. 🙄
And he was so gracious in defeat that he nearly started a revolution over it. Talk about delusional.

@pizza lover I was not lying and should have clarified my statement. When Pelosi first said we should not buy oil from Russia the Dems voted against the Republicans proposal . But then changed their tune once the administration began to catch to much heat from the media and voted a second time . Lastly for you and Westville man as Churchill once said if your under 30 and not a liberal you have no heart but if your over 30 and not a conservative you have no brains !!

It's not about Russia, it's not about Ukraine, it's not about Biden or Trump. (It's not about Keystone XL, either.) As NPR explained yesterday in great detail on All Things Considered, it's about the pandemic and supply-and-demand, combined with the fact that the US energy sector is mostly run by corporations that are structured to return profits to their shareholders.

Demand for gasoline tanked (ha ha) in mid-2020 when most of this nation ground to a halt. Production slowed, refinement slowed, crews were laid off. Now the process has gone into reverse, but oil drilling and refinement and delivery is a massive and complex industry that does not turn on a dime. Gearing back up to increased production takes time; it also takes equipment and parts (which have become more expensive and are tied up in the same supply-chain problems that affect everything else) and personnel (who have found other jobs since being laid off in 2020 and may not be interested or available in going back to work on the rig or in the refinery).

Aaaaaand ... when demand goes up suddenly, as it has since the pandemic conditions have been fading and/or people just got sick of limiting their activities -- and as the news has been full of chatter about restricting imports from Russia and most people have no idea how little we import from Russia -- there is nothing to stop companies from exploiting those circumstances and raising prices well beyond their actual market level, and using the income not for increased production or better pay, but for stock buybacks and shareholder dividends. Google "oil company profits march 2022" for a nice long reading list that will make you grind your teeth.

This is completely the fault of President Biden and his awful energy policy. It’s as if he is trying to destroy the economy. His flippant statement two days ago “Americans will pay more” with his usual sarcastic tone was unnecessary. He should go back in the cellar where he ran his campaign. One thing is clear. I’ll take nasty tweets over this all day.

Anyone dismayed by the vote for this current President yet?

When the price of gasoline rises, I don't get angry at the various implacable market and economic forces that cause it to rise, I get angry at the decades of transportation infrastructure and land-use planning decisions that all-but-force me to own and maintain a car and use it on a near-daily basis.

All things considered and NPR are a tax payer funded left propaganda arm. Pay no mind to what they say. Defund.

To Westvilleman

Trump was a lot of things and sometimes he went overboard with ridiculous tweets.

But with him in charge gas was 2 dollars less, inflation was down and the Russian Collusion was proven to be BS or Mueller would have locked him up.

Our Current President is so inept his behavior makes that adjective an improper description. And we better hope he completes his term because his VP is inert.

This is all on The Dope from Delaware. Not only did he stop the pipeline in North America but gave the go ahead for Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream. So it must be only North American oil produces Carbon Dioxide, I guess if we only use oil from our "old friends" is Kerry's definition of Clean Energy. Fun Fact, Jimmy Carter is celebrated for putting a solar panel on The White House roof, his greater legacy was that he green lighted the Alaskan Pipe Line. By the way it is not just about filling the car it's about heating your home etc. etc. but hey its a Prius in every garage and Pot for every chicken.
Great State of The Union speech Gerald Ford called he wants to give Joe a WIN button.

We are going to have to eliminate fossil fuels anyway to survive Global Warming as a planet. So the USA and Europe and other wealthier developed countries should promote and subsidize switching to electric or electric/hybrid personal vehicles and requiring rapid charging stations at gas stations and a better electric mass public transportation systems to help cut out the need for as much oil and gas for powering vehicles. They should promote and subsidize solar power panels on top of as many buildings as we can for electric power with a grid back up to reduce the amount of energy needed from the electric power companies. They should put in more wind farms. They should work on longer lasting battery arrays for storing energy. And we should be creating more more carbon capture vegetation like green roofs and planting more trees, and discouraging big lawns. We should be reducing our reliance on fossil fuels from any country, never mind those with dictators and human rights violations. We also should prevent profiteering and price gouging from the suppliers and sellers of products and supplies. And we should be producing, growing, processing and manufacturing as many items as we can here in America, to stop relying on foreign countries for everything we buy, and to avoid supply chain disruption issues with overseas transportation of goods, and the accidental importation of destructive invasive species from foreign countries. The more self-reliant we are, the less we are beholden to other countries and the more good paying jobs we can create here, and the fewer dictators and human rights abuse countries gain from our dollars. We also would need less fuel to transport goods. The less fossil fuels we use, the more we can mitigate Global Warming impacts like severe weather and extreme heat and the extinction of species.
This should be a wake up call to fast track the global reduction of reliance on fossil fuels and the global long distance supply chain.

Not sure what people are complaining about. Electric vehicles will smoke ICVs any day of the week (pun intended). We should just drop $50B into electrifying every inter state gas station in the country and it’s game over for ICVs in 5-10 years. Would probably prevent that much in ICV related health care costs in half the time.

Someone put the horse way out in front of the cart. If $5 gas is a burden then what will purchasing an electric vehicle be? There are not enough battery elements being produced today to get the vehicle fleet in this country to 25% let alone 50%. And where do most of the elements for batteries come from? Not the United States because mining for Battery Elements is a toxic environmental mess. Ever notice when California gets warm and they have rolling blackouts? You think the grid can hand all these cars charging as well? Keyboard warriors and pundits have all the answers. Remember Oil Averaged $51 per barrel from 2015-2020 and domestic oil companies were getting killed and Saudi Arabia was drawing down their cash reserves engaging in a price war to put US Shale out of business. But don't let the facts get in the way of playing the blame game. What happened to Black Lives Matter and Covid by the way? Ahhh you all move on so quickly.....distracted by the next shiny thing of Ukraine and High Gas Prices.

1st off, let's be positive, some of the cheapest gas is at Forbes Fuel, Middletown ave, North Haven so we all can save by gassing up there.

Great points CJL215 btw. We will get threw this y'all. ONE FILL UP AT A TIME.