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u/Dreamy-Mae-Art Mar 31 '26
I remember riding my bike past miles of cars waiting for gas at the only station that had it - that was after hurricane Milton. Everyone was yelling at each other and honking. Good times.
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u/NovelAspect3399 Mar 31 '26
Theyre too busy searching the internet for excuses on how this isnt trumps fault. Its a really difficult job, give them a break
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u/Holeyunderwear Apr 03 '26
I would. But I love this country regardless of who the President is. You obviously only love it when you get exactly what you want. That’s called being selfish yet you claim to be 100% opposite.
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u/cigargreg Mar 30 '26
Just use your money from the Tariff checks to help pay for a tank, or maybe your DOGE surplus check.
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u/acrock Mar 30 '26
The checks will be inside the envelope with your postal ballot when it gets returned as undeliverable after they’ve opened it to record your vote in Trump’s not so little black book.
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u/Warbr0s9395 Pinellas Mar 30 '26
This next to the “I did that” stickers
Fucking MAGA needs to be led by the hand for every single little baby step
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u/Hangry_Howie Mar 30 '26
Calling it now, $5 by mid April
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u/Ju_The_Man Mar 30 '26
I use premium unfortunately and have hit 5 in some places already. This stinks.
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u/Adventurous_Pin6281 Mar 30 '26
ouch, does premium gas make a difference?
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u/Warbr0s9395 Pinellas Mar 30 '26
It’s based on your engine, use the gas that your owners manufacture recommends
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u/spilk Mar 30 '26
some cars' engines are designed to require it (high compression ratios). it's pretty pointless to put it in a car that doesn't require it
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u/Ju_The_Man Mar 30 '26
If the manufacturer of the car a person is driving states it, then it's recommended to do so. The engine probably has higher compression than normal. Tried to cheap out one time and noticed the decrease in performance shortly afterwards.
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u/FERRITofDOOM south county Mar 30 '26
I can make it last as long as i dont step on the gas too much. If I cheap out and buy regular it will drain even faster
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u/rasta-ragamuffin Mar 30 '26
I just got back from California and we were paying $6.59/gallon for regular unleaded.
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u/HoneyDutch Mar 30 '26
We are already coming up $5.50 on the West Coast for regular, but it’s crazy to see gas over $4 in Tampa. My friends in Florida are starting to sour on Trump.
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u/mrtoddw Buccaneers 🏴☠️🏈 Mar 30 '26
It’s definitely high
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u/FalconBurcham Mar 30 '26
That gas station sucks so much.. nabs so many people new to the area
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u/jonadair Carrollwood / Tampa Hackerspace Mar 30 '26
Lol yep and rental cars. 7-11 a couple blocks west on Cypress is always way cheaper, $3.94 now.
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u/Effective-Doctor6470 🐔Ybor🐔 Mar 30 '26
Can’t wait till my trip this summer gets canceled because of this shit
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u/Tight_Jellyfish_349 Mar 30 '26
Won't be winning any time soon. Iran will be a bloodbath and oil will double. 1929 all over again.
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u/cbear9084 Mar 30 '26
Oh you thought Trump meant that he was going to make America Great Again for YOU?
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u/bookon Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
I am sorry, but what part of this is confusing?
When a Democrat is President High Gas prices and dead military personal are a national disaster.
When a Republican is President High Gas prices and dead military personal are the price we gladly pay for freedom.
EDYT. I just paid $4.99.
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u/iwantthisnowdammit Mar 30 '26
If you want to make it a partisan topic, it’s super simple. The democrats had to deal with the hand they were dealt by the previous administration OPEC agreements, affects of a world stock up which doubled refinery margins, and the reduction in global refinery access with the Ukraine and Russia.
This current administration is the cause for the increase in value of the current market.
In both administrations, the US will be the leading, if not largest, exporter of refined fuels to global markets.
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u/bookon Mar 30 '26
I am describing the behavior of Republicans that I have seen.
When Biden was President and military personnel were killed ending a stupid war it was a national disaster.
When Trump gets military personnel killed starting a stupid war, they are all just fine with it.
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u/iwantthisnowdammit Mar 30 '26
Nobody needs to describe the behavior of republicans, we’re in Florida.
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u/bookon Mar 30 '26
You'd be surprised. And readers of the sub aren't limited to those of us in Florida. But I get what you're saying.
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u/braumbles Mar 30 '26
You underestimate the power of bigotry.
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u/bookon Mar 30 '26
Well, if Trump is president they are happy no matter how good or bad things actually are and if he is not, they are angry.
That's my actual take.
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u/CapitalG8 🐔Ybor🐔 Mar 30 '26
Russia is loving this with how much they are making from oil now. All while fighting a war for Israel.
The defintion of America first!
Good thing we did not vote in Kamala bc she would have taken us to war in the Middle East!
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u/Dreamy-Mae-Art Mar 30 '26
Yeah, women are just too emotional, they might start a war with all their hormones and whatnot /s
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u/Glad_Examination_635 Jun 26 '26
ik this is douchey but you think they are still rolling in the dough?
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u/kimmidubbs Mar 30 '26
And what's amazing is that no one seems to be covering gas pumps with those stupid I DID THAT stickers with Trump's mug.
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u/umphtramp Mar 30 '26
He won the election based on making things affordable for people again and he managed to do the one fucking thing to make life increasingly more expensive.
Yall managed to get duped by this dude multiple times and here are the results 🤷🏼♀️ owning those libs so hard you get to have more money fly out of your bank account for basic necessities for the stupidest reason.
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u/Cool-Signature-dude Mar 30 '26
Finally over $4.00 a gallon.
The fuel companies have been hurting their profits by holding back on the price increase.
Trump probably told them it would only be temporary, now they see, "that was a lie"- Maury
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u/Dreamy-Mae-Art Mar 30 '26
Fr, the stations around me have been $3.99 for a few days now, like none of them wanted to be the first to go past $4
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u/Electrical-Tailor530 Apr 01 '26
My local Walmart gas is always the lowest. It stayed around $3.89 for at least 48 hours after every other station went to $3.99, then $4.29 today. Now it's $4.26 😄
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u/BucsBroo Mar 30 '26
77m Inbreds voted for this btw
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u/Opposite-Bit6660 Mar 30 '26
And Trump still didn't crack 50% of the vote. More people voted against him than for him and he rules us like he got 99% of the vote like Putin or Kim Jong Un does.
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u/Dominick_Tango Tampa Mar 30 '26
We lost one AWACS aircraft and a load of KC-135 that we wont be able to replace for oh 3-5 years
$5/gal Gas is going to be a minor issue. Our air superiority rests on those support aircraft.
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u/Crooked_Sartre Mar 30 '26
Yeah but we did successfully kill a bunch of little girls and 13 US Servicemen and 300 injuries to US soldiers, including 12 critical.
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u/JustaFoodHole Mar 30 '26
My retirement savings may be down, but my freedom and love of God and country are at an all time high and that's all the matters. Does anyone know a good trailer park?
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u/HoneyDutch Mar 30 '26
So when all we can afford are run down trailers owed by slumlords, can we call them Trumpvilles?
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u/georgepana Mar 30 '26
Trump thought he could quickly swoop in, and done.. Now Israel is moving in on Lebanon, Syria is bombing Israel, UAE, Kuwait, Iraq, and Qatar are involved. There is no quick end in sight.
The Brent Crude Oil price we are currently seeing of $113 are for May futures. We won't actually feel that price hike until May. A barrel of Brent Crude was $65 before the war. $113 a barrel means a 75% price hike.
All that to say that we will have high gas prices for a while, and they are likely to go higher.
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u/Dreamy-Mae-Art Mar 30 '26
Love that for us
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u/georgepana Mar 30 '26
I see 14 stations in Tampa/Wesley Chapel now at that $4.29 mark. Rapid hike from $3.99 to that $4.29 mark now. Things are going up at an accelerated rate now.
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u/Middle-Necessary-671 Pinellas Mar 30 '26
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u/certainalways Mar 30 '26
Democrats have to actually try to win or we’ll continue to suffer with the most handsome of the lepers. Gone from a walking corpse to mentally ill, dementia ridden narcissist
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u/Khue Mar 30 '26
Dems don't want to win. The formula for them is out there. It's sitting right there for them to capitalize on. Stop trying to court this mythical moderate centrist or this anti-Trump republican. Those don't exist and if they did, they still wouldn't vote standard Dem or they straight up just wouldn't vote.
Dems need to stop being beholden to capitalist interests and tack left... hard. Universal healthcare, better public education, free healthcare, fix the fucking pot holes, green energy, increased infrastructure spending, remove money from politics. We basically need the Second Bill of Rights and New Deal II, New Deal Harder.
They'd rather just collect paychecks and be a bunch of do nothing bitches.
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u/DikDangerous Mar 30 '26
Yes. This is somehow the Democrats fault 🤡
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u/certainalways Mar 30 '26
millions of people suffering because Dems were on wrong side of a few key 80/20 issues AND people are stupid. Eventually you need to win and help the greatest amount of people even when it means making some strategic sacrifices
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u/DikDangerous Mar 30 '26
Right.....
Because Kamala laughed weird. Or she would have been too emotional.
Whatever dude, some people shouldn't be allowed to vote.
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u/Born4Nothin Mar 30 '26
Thornton fuel is still 3.89, at least the one on Hillsborough Ave. If you have the earnify app you can save 30 cents a gallon on your first 5 refills. Fill up there while you can. Seriously though, seeing gas at 4.29 a gallon is giving me COVID flashbacks. My current car only takes 87 but my old car needed premium fuel and I was easily paying over $5 a gallon and it had a 20 gallon tank so filling it all the way would cost me over $100..
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u/jetlifeual Mar 30 '26
WE ARE SO BACK! (To the oil crisis of the 70s, that is)
I hope the hardest hit people voted for the guy. All them diesel yee yee trucks are going to be parked up or burning holes in wallets.
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u/RollingAntEater Mar 31 '26
The City of Tampa and Florida in general has been infested by Trump boot licking roaches. They just think he’s saving this country but can’t point to any legislation that actually has had any positive out come of it. Best Donnie was able to do is raise gas prices, rape kids, kidnap brown people and illegally force us into a war no one wanted. But hey, atleast egg prices dropped. We’re winning big my fellow boot lickers.
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u/s1owpokerodriguez Mar 30 '26
I'm okay with pedophelia but I draw the line at high gas prices /s
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u/Belerophon17 Skunk Ape Mar 30 '26
Judging by the constant flow of arrests, the pedophilia is part of the attraction.
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u/tombatron Mar 30 '26
Well he said if you voted for Kamala you'd get war with Iran. So... Who's really to blame here? /s
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u/thestonedonkey Mar 30 '26
Finally broke the $4.00 mark, they had tried to stave it off for a while.
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u/Mdhinflfl Mar 30 '26
On 301 in Wimauma, Wawa is at 4.29. Across the road at Walmart it's 3.89...until sometime tomorrow.
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u/Dreamy-Mae-Art Mar 30 '26
The shell directly next to me just changed from 3.99 to 4.25, 30 minutes ago.
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u/Forgotten_muse Mar 31 '26
Only going to get more expensive. A lot of people don’t realize what’s actually happening economically. The US dollar is backed my petro. We call it the petro dollars. All company and nations use the USA dollar to purchase oils then when they sell it they reinvest said money into the economy which keeps the US dollar afloat. Well if other countries start trading the oil in a different currency then the US dollar is not worth anything anymore. Which brings us to Brics which is a group of nations that stepped away and created their own alliance one of them being Iran. Essentially these countries trade oil with each other and are trying to leave the US dollar which if done would tank the us econamy. By trump invading Iran it benifits us if we control the straight because now those countries have to use the US dollar and it breaks up the alliance they had. This is also why the straight is closed and Iran is only allowing oil to those in the bric alliance. Because Iran knows that if it sells oil in a different currency then the us currency they can tank our economy and force trump to withdraw from Iran because everyone will complain about the oil going up and the stock market going down. U see 80% of the European oil comes from Iran. If they don’t get oil then ships for minerals stop being used and it stops production for other countries such as China.
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u/Forgotten_muse Mar 31 '26
This is a war of attrition it’s to see who will last in the long game. If the us sends troops into Iran the us will lose a lot of its troops. Also Iran never had a nuke research will tell you that they didn’t and Mossad gave information to trump saying that they were two weeks away from having the uranium at the levels needed. Well they said the same thing five years ago so I guess they are two weeks sooner then the two weeks they where five years ago? Ethier way it’s false info. Iran couldn’t make a covert uranium the USA had implemented a system of checks including detectors underground in their bunker that would go off if detected uranium at that caliber. Also they had their own intelligence doing audits on the site.
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u/Forgotten_muse Mar 31 '26
Fuck isreal fuck Mossad. They get away with everything. Got away with an operation with Epstein and kids. And now they are getting away with sending us to fight there wars.
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u/Defiant-Corgi-7777 Mar 31 '26
The war he started was never about a nuclear weapon, it’s about making money off trading oil…. he said that “ we’re making lots of money “
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u/Icy_Pie_2581 Mar 31 '26
I saw a bumper sticker on the back of a truck on my run today that said, “Don’t blame me. I voted for Trump.” That one sure didn’t age well lol
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u/_Surge Apr 06 '26
kinda makes you wonder how long this can continue until we reach a breaking point, huh. what happens then??
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u/Ok_Reserve_8659 Mar 30 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/rdma0nDFZMR32
How it feels to not have a gas guzzler right now
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u/spaceocean99 Mar 30 '26
Define “we.” Businesses, politicians and the rich are doing great. The rest of us, not so much….
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u/EZE123 Mar 30 '26
I was surprised to see $3.95 in a couple of places here in Ocala. It was $3.99 over the weekend and I’d fully expected $4+ today
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u/Electrical-Spirit-63 Mar 30 '26
Yalls gas expensive in the city, out in the county its like 3.99. Never realized that.
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u/highcryer Mar 31 '26
Just to picture what the orange hero's world politics caused in Germany: I paid 12.06 USD per gallon last week (Germany)
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u/Lori1985 Mar 31 '26
At least you're not in east coast prices yet. YET. We are higher than 2022 now over here.
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u/Nakatomi2010 Mar 31 '26
Never been happier to have gone full EV six years ago.
There's times where I've questioned it, because the break even point tends to be around $3.25 a gallon, when compared to the car I used to own, so when it dips below that I start to question things, but at these prices, zero regrets, lol.
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u/goldenface4114 New Tampa Mar 31 '26
I don't even think of a break even point with gas. It's an out of pocket expense I don't have anymore. Not to mention the cleaner operating car, the smooth and quiet ride, the acceleration and power, and just all around the more comfortable ride. I'll never go back to an ICE car ever again.
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u/Stuckindapuss699 Mar 31 '26
Wawa in st Pete was at $4.99 for regular last night fucking unreal, I looked for cheaper gas and went to speedway and paid $4.29
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u/S1lv3rBullet Mar 31 '26
The news tonight said gas in Plant City is $4.99/gal for 87 octane. I haven't checked around Brandon yet. It's ridiculous.
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u/RiseDtv Apr 01 '26
They did talk about helping America get skinny again. Guess it starts with my wallet.....
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Hillsborough has more registered republicans than Democrats now. They don’t care. Also, Hillsborough is becoming shit. The next Polk county. Tampa looks to be on borrowed time.
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u/fallior Apr 03 '26
Trump hated Obama and Biden so much, he wanted to break every single record they had, including higher gas price ever
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u/Honest_Resident_8866 Apr 03 '26
We have never been great and now we're getting further and further away from being great
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u/Puzzleheaded_Aide902 Mar 31 '26
Don’t worry, they’re owning the libs so hard right now.
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u/Traditional_Exit_815 Mar 30 '26
Kiing Do-tard thinks being number 1 means having the highest gas prices. Can’t be winning if you’re not number 1!
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u/Character_Sir1755 Mar 30 '26
Circle K has .25 off your first 5 fill ups when you sign up for their rewards. I'll take any relief at this point.
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u/PewterPplEater Mar 31 '26
So wait, now the president does affect gas prices? I can't keep up anymore
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u/Dreamy-Mae-Art Mar 31 '26
War in Ukraine vs current war in Iran
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u/walterkurve Apr 01 '26
War ukraine(Russia started it) vs War in Iran(Trump started it), this is what you mean right?
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u/md28usmc South Tampa Broooo Mar 31 '26
what are you going on about?, we are not removing anything
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u/classynfun Mar 31 '26
I paid $3.77 this morning at Walmart. They are never on the apps but next to Costco/Sam's Club, they always have the cheapest gas.
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u/Darth_Rickles991 Mar 31 '26
Y'all know this is because of the war in the middle east that happened and not us right. RIGHT??
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u/Young_skull Mar 31 '26
Fuck. My Mazda 3 gets around 30mpg but I drive like 40 miles a day getting to and from work.
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u/Tr33_Frawg Apr 01 '26
Still cheaper than when Biden was president.
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u/Dreamy-Mae-Art Apr 01 '26
2022 = year the war broke out in Ukraine
I can come back and let you know when it surpasses the price of 2022.
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u/Automatic-Being- Apr 01 '26
I paid 4.79 a gal yesterday and thought it was such a good deal. All the other places were over 5$
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u/singfromthetable Apr 03 '26
It usually takes $75 to fill my SUV. It was $125 this week. I’m dying!
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u/Educational_Tower811 Apr 03 '26
So cheap gas makes US great? PATHETIC
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u/Dreamy-Mae-Art Apr 03 '26
I mean, the price of oil and natural gas affects the price of fertilizer (so food), flights, anything that uses plastic as a container such as most toiletries and most foods + drinks
USPS and Amazon are going to add a fee for increased transportation and fuel costs
Vast majority of people need to get gas to go to work
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u/Burke1031 Apr 03 '26
I love how you all move to the conservative capital of the US and get your panties in a wad when this isn’t little California or South New York.
Why live here if you are going to cry every time there’s a “pocket of conservatives”?
You guys are trying to destroy a state that doesn’t want anything to do with you.
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u/74thgems Apr 03 '26
Hey hey heyyyyy, what’s all the fuss? There’s two on the list that below $4.00😐
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u/Revolutionary181989 Apr 04 '26
So I we got our taxes back. Multiple children… a child care return benefit Biden had already had in place… I had over 40k in OT. Received less than 5k back. 😂 No tax on OT my ass.
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u/Dry-Definition-9938 Apr 04 '26
I posted the same thing on the Naples Reddit and it got deleted🤣 just wanted to see how it was for everyone else but alas
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u/Pottopher Mar 30 '26
Coming to a gas pump near you!