The national average for gas prices in the United States has surpassed the $5 mark for the first time in history, according to one measure on Thursday.
According to GasBuddy, the average has risen to $5 per gallon after an increase of several cents over the last few days.
Various factors have influenced the rise in prices over the last several months. Experts say that the spike recently has been mostly affected by rising demand for the summer season and limited capacity at U.S. and foreign refineries.
The ongoing war in Ukraine — which is now in its fourth month — has also had an impact on gas prices worldwide.
GasBuddy is one of a few organizations that track the cost of gasoline in the United States. AAA showed on Thursday that the national average is near the historic mark at $4.97 per gallon, an increase of about 1.5 cents over Wednesday.
According to AAA, California has the nation’s most expensive gas, at $6.40 per gallon, followed by Nevada ($5.59) and Washington, Oregon and Alaska ($5.51).
President Joe Biden’s administration has been working to control gas prices, notably a few weeks ago by approving the release of an additional 1 million barrels of oil per day from the strategic oil reserve. Biden has also authorized the sale of E15, a gasoline blend containing more ethanol, during the summer months.
Under pressure, Saudi Arabia and OPEC also recently agreed to boost oil production.
Last month, the House passed a bill to punish gas station owners for price gouging. Not a single Republican voted for the bill.
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Totally avoidable—totally unnecessary.
LET’S GO BRANDON @@@@@
The treachery of the treasonous, socialist Democrat Party know no bounds.
This was totally and deliberately orchestrate and fabricated by the puppet F… Joe Biden and his Green New Deal masters from the very first day that Biden was in office.
President Joe Biden’s administration,,,working to control gas prices is approving the release of an additional 1 million barrels of oil per day from the strategic oil reserve that was designed to protect America in times of war, not designed to save the miscreant political party failures of a mindless President and an inept political party,,,,,is like taking a blood donation from the hind end of an anemic Aids victim and injecting back into his privates expecting an instance immediate gratification that will ultimately deplete his actual health even more. It’s the Biden version of a political parasite draining the strength of the host it never gives birth to, but lives off of its very life force. Infusing the body with new healthy sources of Red blooded well drilled American oil is the only way to revive our depleted sources of American energy, AND JOE KNOWS IT,,,but chooses to keep WE THE PEOPLE strapped to his government healthcare gurneys and drain the lifeblood of American power like a vampire on a mission to control our every move by going for the throat of the very energy that Makes America Great. He is an embarrassment to his race, his religion, his gender and a TRAITOR to his country. Impeachment is too kind a reward for him as is a mental ward. His evil betrayal was preplanned from the beginning, and being controlled by forces even more evil than himself.
IT may have been avoidable, but NOT BY THESE TRAITORS we have running the show.
“President Joe Biden’s administration has been working to control gas prices.” Certainly not for the average consumer! Who then? The green weenies who vowed years ago to make prices so high and destroy fossil fuels that only green options which are in no way viable to supply their envisioned green utopia will be available. Where is the science in all this?
Ask fauci.. Afterall isn’t HE THE science! 😉
its all about P O W E R and C O N T R O L.
Wait till this winter!! Watch gas prices go to 10.00 a gallon. Wait until you get you heating gas bill ?? It’s going to be a hard winter for the U.S.
Especially all those on FIXED incomes, like retirees!