Gas for $1.99 a gallon around here.

$4.19 for 87 here.

Wouldn't be surprised for it to crest $5 within the next week based on todays news.

 

Hey, maybe that will be your incentive to go on a diet so you can fly coach.

 

I booked a round trip flight to NYC next month for $167. It would cost me $439 to drive my car to Madison Square Garden and back. Crazy shit.

 

Who are the Rangers playing during your stay there?

 

We're going specifically to see the Rangers.

My mom died a year ago June. My brother and I have spent the last 9 months liquidating her estate, which included 5 houses. We have the final house under contract and closing in 2 weeks, so my brother said as a gift to both of us, let's go to MSG and see a Rangers game, which he's never done. So the 2 of us are heading up 15th of April to catch the 12;30 afternoon game against the Red Wings on the 16th and have a generally wild weekend in the Apple. Last time he was in New York was 1971 and he was 6 years old. I told him it's changed just a tad

 

Expect it to be $5 before you start your journey.

My trip with the kids is hanging precariously by a thread, my fuel budget has been doubled since I made the plan.

 

We're talking about cancelling a trip out west due to fuel prices too. . It's putting a real world squeeze on an already overly tight portion of the population.

 

Time to start using spec fuel in car.

 

We heading to AZ in April again, maybe we won't get the Hemi V8 this time.

 

It'll be interesting when someone does a post-mortem of this, and finds out that the US supply was barely effected but prices jumped another $3/gal and all oil companies recorded record profits.

I think I saw a quote earlier this week that said US imports from Russia was less 1%, but haven't validated it.

 

Commodities traders are the driving force. There is no shortage at this time.

 

From the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers:

https://www.afpm.org/sites/default/...S. Imports of Oil & Petroleum from Russia.pdf

 

Of course no post-mortem that disproves your hare-brained idea would be believed, so who cares?

 

On just petroleum and other products it was 8% of overall imports in 2021.

For crude oil only, it was just over 3% of total imports.

Lots of data here:
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_mbbl_a.htm

If you factor in what US produces on it's own and keeps in-Country, I'd wager Russia's share of the American Energy Pie is indeed probably close to 1-3%.

 

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