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[bandicoot]

Gas jumped again - it's now $4.30 cash or $4.36 credit card. It's probably cheaper in Santa Cruz, as we're at the end of the distribution line and the one station has a monopoly

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[skreidle]

Yow -- gas is about $3.50 in central VA.

[von_krag]

3.37$ here but going up this weekend. Thanks Obama & Donks.

[skreidle]

To be fair, the President has almost no direct influence on the price of gasoline -- or the economy as a whole -- no matter how much he's blamed or credited for it. (This applies to Presidents on both sides of the aisle.)

[bandicoot]

Of course he does when he's actively working to curtail domestic supply by slowing production and exploration permits and single-handedly stopping the pipeline that would have brought oil from Canada and eliminated the current bottleneck at Cushing.

Instead, he's still stupidly promoting so-called "green" energy, none of which scales up. Algae? Give me a break. He's working hard to drive us back to the middle ages. He's the anti-energy president.

[skreidle]

There are trade-offs in everything, particularly when it comes to long-term environmental protection vs short-term energy production -- and oil isn't sustainable in the long term, no matter where it comes from. (Further, creating more here just means that the Middle East will alter their production/refining/prices to stabilize the market.)

I want to see more nuclear power, honestly, and less dependence on oil and coal. Difficult in the short term, I know, but necessary in the long term.

[skreidle]

Also, I'm always surprised when I stumble across the rare (for this part of the country) gas station that charges a different amount for cash and credit. (I understand why they do it, but almost every station in this region has averaged the two prices (presumably) and charge the same.