You ****ing reeruns can't help it. Every ****ing time.

Pandemic cuts consumption by a record percentage. Production cut by a record percentage in result.

Rare weather event happens that knocks out production.

DURR POLITICS

Wooow, we got a badass over here! Look out!

Oil and Gas went down early 2017 and stayed there. Don't blame COVID moron. :doh!:

Fact, not fiction!

No, it didn't.

Donger, I don't know where that chart came from, but it doesn't reflect what gas prices did in the midwest. I drive an average of 5000 miles every month for work, so I buy a lot of gas and have a good idea of what I've had to pay. I haven't seen prices anywhere close to the $2.97 that you show in 2018. I don't think that I ever saw above $2.50.

Could you expand that out to say...oh 2008? I'm pretty sure he was referencing years prior to 2017.

That's because it's the national average. Here it is for KC:

https://charts.gasbuddy.com/ch.gasch...t=US%20%24%2FG

I'm assuming that's the US average, which means while it was $2.50 here it was $3.50 in California, leading to a $2.97 "average".

As far as it goes:

https://charts.gasbuddy.com/ch.gasch...t=US%20%24%2FG

If you want more, go here:

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/Le...te_nus_dpg&f=w

Anyway, he claimed it went down in 2017 and stayed there. It didn't, as shown.

That will suffice. Thanks.

You're welcome. And if anyone wants to discuss how politics and political policy affects gasoline/crude pricing, we have DC for that. And I'd be happy to engage in it.

Last night Mrs. B sent me out for pizza. I noticed all the gas stations had jumped their price for unleaded from $2.22 to $2.49. So I went on the "straggler station hunt." You know, that one station who's employees are lazy and don't change the price till a few hours behind every one else? I have one such station close to my house, but it's the loser burnout creepy gas station. The credit card reader on the pump has been vandalized so you have to go inside to pay. When I went in, I was the only one wearing a mask. Clerk had her mask under her chin. The guy in line ahead of me was in pajama pants, arguing about how the vape thing he bought there the day before "Damn neer set mah trailer on fiah...." He wanted to bitch at Hadji, the owner. "Hadji won't be in till tomorrow sometime. He sets his own hours." Finally got to the front and bought $20 to top off my tank. This morning they were at $2.49 just like everybody else. But I saved $2. It's the principle of the thing...

ROFL