Ahead of the Fourth of July holiday weekend, gasoline prices in the United States are the highest they have been in several years — and some stations are running out of fuel.
According to AAA, the national average on Tuesday is about $3.11 per gallon. That’s the highest average since late 2014.
By this weekend, that figure may rise another nickel, AAA says.
AAA estimates that as many as 43.6 million Americans will hit the road for Independence Day weekend, which runs from Thursday to Monday.
“Today, 89% of U.S. gas stations are selling regular unleaded for $2.75 or more. That is a stark increase over last July 4 when only a quarter of stations were selling gas for more than $2.25,” AAA spokesperson Jeanette McGee said in a statement Monday.
“Road trippers will pay the most to fill up for the holiday since 2014.”
According to AAA, Mississippi ($2.74), Louisiana ($2.75) and Texas ($2.79) have the nation’s least expensive gas — and it’s most expensive in California ($4.28), Hawaii ($4.00) and Washington state ($3.74).
Some stations won’t have any gasoline to sell due to a shortage of delivery drivers. Rising demand is also playing a factor in the shortages.
Tom Klonza, global head of energy analysis for the Oil Price Information Service, says that may result in drivers topping off their tanks more frequently.
“It used to be an afterthought for station owners to schedule truck deliveries. Now it’s job No. 1,” Kloza told CNN. “What I’m worried about for July is the increased demand works out to about 2,500 to 3,000 more deliveries needed every day. There just aren’t the drivers to do that.”
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Joe’s working on it. He’s going to get that Green thing all worked out to where it so much more economical than fossil fuels and all of those great jobs are going to be created to replace the thousands in the oil industry that he wiped out with the stroke of a pen. Of course, when you don’t have to buy gas yourself, you don’t feel the pinch, do you Joe? You cannot effectively be President and lead this country when you are so out of touch with the citizenry and what they have to deal with on a daily basis. You’re clueless.
AND how is it “they can’t get enough drivers’? Are they running short cause drivers NO LONGER WANT to put up with all the balloney?
OR IS IT something else at fault?!
There are STILL idiots out there who give Biden no blame in gas prices despite how he boasted his plan to destroy the fossil fuel industry. All those power outages on the west coast . . hey greenies, any problems you can see with charging 20 million electric cars with the existing grid of greenie-weenie energy sources?
The “new green deal” is working out EXACTLY as planned.
You forgot to put a “MUHAHAHAHA” at the end.