Gas Prices Are on Everyone’s Mind

It’s suddenly expensive at the pump again, which is, naturally, kind of a drag, although I totally get why.

Around here, we seem to be in the $3.70 or so a gal range, and some ten cents less if you belong to one of the pumping clubs the various retailers like Circle K or Tom Thumb have going.  I noticed our Shell card was down to a whopping three cents a gallon savings – aren’t they handsome fellows?

Needless to say, we switched to one of the others. Luckily, our fuel bills are pretty negligible anymore, as Major Dad has a short commute to work on base, I am home all week long, and our vehicles are all pretty fuel-efficient, as we’ve always been mad trackers of miles per gallon at every fill-up.

Even Eleanor, the ’96 Camry, is getting 26 or so on the short hops to base three days a week with hubs.

But for folks who are running kids to practices after school or have those sit-in-traffic commutes I remember so well, I feel you.

The one thing I am grateful for, besides Trump taking out the Iranians’ capability to wage meaningful war and any nuclear mischief, is that he had a year to get the country back on its feet as far as oil production and refining went. Had that not happened, say, GOD FORBID, a Harris presidency had come to pass, we would be sucking wind like the Australians and now the British.

I don’t know how many of you remember the 70’s, but if you don’t or can’t, take it from me in all earnestness – they sucked.

As did the 79-80 ‘oil shock.’

I never want to see even-odd fill-up days or empty gas pumps again, unless it’s in the temporary aftermath of a hurricane.

  

Trump’s election spared us that, or rather, by electing him, we saved ourselves.

While we can control and ensure domestic supplies remain available, what we can’t really do is set the price for them, as that happens in the commodity market on a global scale. Which is where the current unpleasantness is causing angst and pain that just a few months ago seemed to be fading into distant memory.

Promises made, promises kept. Gas prices are at their LOWEST average in nearly five years. pic.twitter.com/OC7MzirCYS

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 13, 2026

Perspective helps some.

Some perspective on gas prices:

Trump shut down the entire Middle East and gas went from $2.98 to $3.41.

Biden got gas to $5.01 armed with nothing but a couple trillion of federal waste and fraud. pic.twitter.com/gdqDMzGfNb

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) March 7, 2026

Contrast January’s pump prices to an awkward interview with Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who was asked about what her plans were to relieve consumers’ pain as gas prices spiked to over $5 gal with no Middle East action.

OIL IS A CARTEL AND CONTROLLED BY OPEC

The national average gas price has fallen below $3 a gallon for the first time since 2020.

Remember when Biden Energy Secretary Granholm laughed when asked about their plan to lower prices?

Leadership and policies matter. pic.twitter.com/xsWWojkRMh

— Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) October 20, 2025

Those prices were engineered by Granholm and a fossil-fuel-hostile Biden administration as part of a plan to use pain to force Americans to drive less and, if they had to drive at all, to drive electric. They were capping refining capacity, restricting drilling and exploration, and using bureaucratic regulatory burdens to effect an energy transition they could not openly mandate. Sky-high gasoline prices – and natural gas as well – were part of their process and the desired result, not an inadvertent aftereffect that would eventually be mitigated to relieve the public.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the administration is ‘doing everything we can to mitigate those disruptions’ right now to get prices down as quickly as they can, and that once the Iranian threat is completely neutralized, 47 years of Iranian-induced market disruptions will give way to a stable, long term benfits.

Sec. Wright on gas prices: “There’s a few more levers we have to pull there that we’re looking at quickly. The goal of course it to get them down as quickly as possible.”

pic.twitter.com/HvhnQ5eMdW

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 23, 2026

At least they’re on our side, unlike the previous gang of dystopian fascists.

In Australia, where the government kept insisting no one talk about a fuel crisis that wasn’t happening…

Labor Senator Tim Ayres calls people posting about a possible fuel security crisis “far-right extremist scaremongers.” pic.twitter.com/zi8ps6VDjz

— Anthony Khallouf (@ausvstheagenda) March 4, 2026

…risible Prime Minister Anthony Albanese went on television last night to ask everyone to bike, take the train, or bus to work if they could.

🚨🇦🇺 Meanwhile in Australia

“The months ahead will not be easy”

PM Anthony Albanese just gave a broadcast to the nation – in which he tells Australians to cycle to work or take the train, if they can, in order to preserve fuel.

This is just the beginning. pic.twitter.com/WV8vs0aC0G

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) April 1, 2026

Well…huh.

Sounds like things might be a bit more dire than people simply panic buying, causing spot shortages. This is also the country that sent people to COVID isolation camps, so, naturally, antennae are starting to pick up authoritarian signaling.

🇦🇺The Australian Prime Minister is begging citizens to take the bus🚍

This is what an energy crisis looks like in a G20 country.
Not a press release.
Not a policy paper.
A head of government on live TV asking ordinary people to stop using fuel.

The managed demand destruction… pic.twitter.com/N1cdQpw833

— Jack Prandelli (@jackprandelli) April 1, 2026

A head of government on live TV asking ordinary people to stop using fuel.

The managed demand destruction has officially begun.

Remember what I wrote in my latest article(link in my bio)?

There are 2 versions of demand destruction:

📋 The managed one  governments ask nicely

💥 The unmanaged one  prices rise until economies break

Australia just entered phase 1

The question is how long before “please take the train” becomes “you have no choice”?

The climate cultists in Europe are also having to dance around the fuel scarcity issue in the moment.

No… the energy crisis in Europe is the result of ‘sleeping with the enemy’. Becoming reliant on Russian gas, going ridiculously green, blowing up nuclear plants when you have nothing else. Goofy… absolutely stupid people.

— the Texas Yeti (@authorpattaylor) March 31, 2026

Our price spike is temporary and painful, but, thanks to embracing our natural resources, we have no shortages. 

The situation in the greenest of green virtue-signaling countries is so tenuous that they are already rationing, and it’s only been four weeks!

A single month!

Oh. Well. I forgot California – and by extension the states that foolishly rely on it for fuel, like Arizona and Nevada – which might as well be a member of the European Union for what it’s worth.

CBS reports that “Gas prices have surged since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, jumping more than a dollar per gallon over the last month, data from the auto club shows.

However, California’s highest-in-the-nation gas prices were already up 80 cents per gallon prior to the war with Iran, while the rest of the country was enjoying some of the lowest priced gas in years.

People have such short memories. They pretend they’ve never seen gas prices this high before. pic.twitter.com/EOZ9dEeSeV

— Will (@PInstinctx) March 31, 2026

Arizona and Nevada Democrats keep trying to play the Trump War card, and…well…it must hurt to get smacked around this much.

I hope she has an ICE pack.

Hello Congresswoman

This has already been pointed out but allow us to reemphasize that:

Roughly 88% of Nevada’s transportation fuels — including nearly 90% of Southern Nevada’s supply and the Las Vegas area via the Calnev Pipeline — comes from California refineries.

With CA… https://t.co/1Ja0J0PEKH

— US Oil & Gas Association (@US_OGA) March 25, 2026

With CA Democrat energy policy forcing the closure of major facilities, this dependency will mean higher prices & tighter supply ahead.

Nevada has virtually ZERO gasoline refining capacity of its own.

Just as Asian and European countries are learning that it is unwise to let their economies be vulnerable foreign geographic choke points — 

We recommend Nevada decouple itself from CA energy policy as soon as possible.

Thank you for sharing your views. 

We will certainly keep them in mind.

I sure hope Kelly felt this, but he’s such a numbnuts I don’t have much hope he did.

Hello Senator.

This has already been pointed out but allow us to reemphasize that:

33% of Arizona’s gasoline — including the entire Phoenix refined products market — comes from California refineries via pipeline.

With CA Democrat energy policy forcing the closure of major… https://t.co/44GDFzSUVl

— US Oil & Gas Association (@US_OGA) March 25, 2026

With CA Democrat energy policy forcing the closure of  major facilities, this dependency will mean higher prices & tighter supply ahead.

Arizona has ZERO refineries of its own. 

With your military background –  you of all people recognize that recent events have shown how unwise it is to allow an economy to be at risk of foreign choke points half way across the world. 

AZ is no different. We recommend AZ decouple itself from CA energy policy as soon as possible.

Thank you for sharing your views.  We will certainly keep them in mind.

As for the rest of us, it’s have faith time. And I do.

Mostly, I’m glad that, however long this burp in higher costs lasts – and I honestly don’t think it’ll be extended for months and months – I am delighted that this country was in a position to take action that should have been taken ages ago, and is able to keep running right along.

That’s self-sufficiency and utilization of the resources at home. 

It’s true independence.

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