I'd been wondering about this too

[ceagle]

Fairly comprehensive and to-the-point article: .. https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/why-are-gas-prices-so-high-and-who-is-to-blame/ ..

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[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the post! Yeah, we’re up to $3.47 locally, and I put $55 in the truck today. But… at least it is available.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Your footnote is poignant... I wonder how many would remember when we had to wait in long lines for it, and also when we had to fill up on only odd or even days...

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

I finally got out to look closely at my ‘74 Ford bumpers: the owner of my go-to gas station put a small sticker on the truck to show I was a loyal customer and could get around his standard rationing, but the sticker has long since gone away! Crazy, crazy times!

[hastka.livejournal.com]

Strangely, the local popular gas station has been at $3.15 for cash/87 for probably 4-5 months now... basically ever since Michigan lifted its stay-home order. In fact I think it even went up a little above that at the time, but settled back down.

Though I dunno, around here we are close to Canada, and I understand they are the world's fourth-largest oil producer.

Honestly I didn't even know the US sourced that much gas from Russia or OPEC anymore, for that reason.

[hastka.livejournal.com]

Addendum: I saw a headline in the news that gas prices "skyrocketed to new highs" in Michigan, and that place I mentioned above is now at like 3.20. ;-P So I dunno. Maybe something big-scale is going on but seems that locally someone bought a lot of cheap gas that's about to expire or something.