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10-04-22 23:10 #10485
Posts: 1604Pesky Details?
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
https://news.yahoo.com/explainer-why...170130453.html
"(Reuters) - After a tumultuous year, USA Gasoline prices have been steadily falling from peaks reached in June due to high demand and tight global refining supply. But in some regions, the average price is beginning to rise again, prompting concern from the Biden administration.
Although 60% of USA States saw gasoline prices fall week on week, the national average gas price increased by about 7 cents per gallon in the same period, according to data from the American Automotive Association.
Last week top White House officials met with oil executives to discuss Hurricane Ian and low gasoline inventories as President Joe Biden warned the industry not to price-gouge consumers.
Why are gasoline prices rising in some regions?
Gasoline prices have recently been affected by regional refinery outages in the west coast and the Midwest.
Refinery maintenance often takes place in the fall when demand drops after the summer driving season. This fall, however, other refineries had to shut units without warning due to infrastructure problems.
Three refineries in Washington state and California have had planned maintenance while another had an unplanned outage in September, according to Refinitiv data and refining sources.
Overall, USA Oil refiners are expected to have about 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of capacity offline for the week ending Oct. 7, decreasing available refining capacity by 288,000 bpd, research company IIR Energy said on Monday.
In the Midwest, BP-Cenovus' Toledo refinery is still offline after a fatal explosion shut the plant late last month. On the East Coast, Irving Oil's Canadian refinery had maintenance this fall, according to refining sources.
Gulf Coast refineries are also undergoing maintenance this fall, including Marathon's Galveston Bay, Motiva's Port Arthur refinery, and Pemex Deer Park.
Where are gasoline prices rising and where are they falling?
Gasoline price spikes are most pronounced on the West Coast.
Average retail gasoline prices rose the most in California, rising 10% week on week to $6. 382 per gallon, and Alaska, rising by 11% to $5.34, according to AAA.
Prices have also increased by 11 cents in Ohio and 18 cents in Illinois due in part to the Ohio refinery fire.
Fuel prices fell the most in Florida, where demand was impacted by Hurricane Ian. The average price is now $3. 22, down 16 cents from a week ago. Gasoline prices also fell week on week in other states including Missouri, Nebraska, New York, and South Dakota.
What other factors are affecting fuel prices?
Tight refining supply has caused the gap between wholesale gasoline futures and retail prices to remain wide this year. It currently sits at about $1.30 a gallon, compared with an average of 88 cents over the past five years."
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10-04-22 21:08 #10484
Posts: 690It's called smog
Did Anybody here bitching about gasoline formulations and "pesky regulations" live in So Cal in the 60's-70's?
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10-04-22 20:27 #10483
Posts: 5452Raise the minimum wage and increase the Labor Force Participation Rate
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
So any vague suggestion that it was "down" under Obama or due to anything Obama had done is total BS. He is the one under whose presidency the dramatic downward plunge trajectory came to a halt and reversed course!
Second, the only notable increase in the rate from where it had increased under Obama began around June 2019. Then, of course, that 8 month uptick came to an abrupt halt in February 2020 when Trump's disastrous economic and stewardship decisions from 2018 and all through 2020 came crashing down with a vengeance.
Labor Force Participation Rate Chart
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
I have posted screen shots of the above interactive Labor Force Participation Rate chart at the various points I just referenced; at Max showing the dramatic plunge throughout Reagan wannabe Repub GW Bush's presidency, at 10 years showing when it halted its downward plunge trajectory and reversed course under Obama and the June 2019 to February 2020 uptick before Trump's Pandemic crashed it. Although the screenshots are not necessarily in that order.
So what happened in 2019 to cause that 8 month notable uptick in the Labor Force Participation Rate under Trump before his crash? Could it have had anything whatsoever to do with his Tax Cuts and Jobs Act? In all likelihood, not very much. Why would tax cuts for corporations that they used to buy back their own company stocks inspire anyone to re-enter the Labor Force? Why would any tax cuts for anyone inspire unemployed holdouts to re-entering the Labor Force?
Reagan wannabe Repub GW Bush famously cut taxes a whole bunch, at least twice, and as you can see on that chart, Americans fled the Labor Force in droves!
I submit there was a far more logical reason for a notable uptick in American workers re-entering the Labor Force in 2019 and that trend would probably have continued doing so had Trump's Pandemic not derailed the entire USA economy as well as others around the world.
And it was a trend I already previously cited here as the real reason wages increased for women, blacks, hispanics and other minorities that Trump tried to take undeserved credit for but in fact it was something he, Moscow Mitch and most Repubs did and still do adamantly oppose:
Blue states $15 minimum wage push gets a jump-start.
February 19, 2019
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...m-wage-1173156
With a national $15 minimum hourly wage still out of reach, blue states are mounting an offensive to fill the void.
New Jersey this month joined three other states in raising its hourly minimum wage to $15, Illinois is poised to follow next week, and more states are waiting in the wings.
Its all part of an effort to leverage Democratic midterm election gains to advance the so-called Fight for $15 and increase pay for some of the lowest-paid workers even if the federal government wont.
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10-04-22 19:19 #10482
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
So, when you get right down to it, it's because the California Democratic politicians cater to the greenies who want to have a smug feeling of self satisfaction and superiority from doing good things for the environment, even though they're not in any meaningful way. And they cater to the people who are sitting home on their asses and sucking off the government tit, so they don't have to commute. The workingman, who's busting his ass and paying $4,000 a year for gasoline to go to and from work, he's the minority. And he tends to vote for Republicans anyway. So f* him.
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10-04-22 17:15 #10481
Posts: 406Who controls the price?
Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
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10-04-22 12:05 #10480
Posts: 3228Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
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10-04-22 06:00 #10479
Posts: 1956Canada never disappoints
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
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10-04-22 02:30 #10478
Posts: 2579[Deleted by Admin]
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10-04-22 01:11 #10477
Posts: 1117Red States: I want my "laissez-faire" cake and eat it too.
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
But inevitably, many of these "red states" rant, pomp, bloviate and bluster about Wash. DC should "back-off" and insistently crow about wanting a "laissez-faire" fed. government, that is of course, until the proverbial "shit hits the fan".
Meaning that, when every red city, county, or state run a foul of corruption, malfeasance, debt, bankruptcy, natural disaster or an inept mishandling of a viral epidemic outbreak (and it's not a matter of if, but rather when), they'll come to the feds with proverbial "tail tucked between leg", begging for help and a handout.
(As just noted in EihTooms' recent post http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...=1#post2749548).
How many times have we seen this scenario play out, from capitalist fraudsters, to the bankster gangsters, to corporate welfare, to gov't funding of the "red states", all with "laissez-faire" hat-in-hand, when times get tough, but were more than happy to tell the feds. "go pound sand" and to "back-off" when the good-times / profits were rolling in.
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10-03-22 23:40 #10476
Posts: 1604Really?
Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
You said this: "Why is gas 80 to 100 percent higher in dem run cities?
The one thing we can count on you for is not doing any research before you bloviate. Smdh.
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10-03-22 21:39 #10475
Posts: 2579Same could be said for all the fake pollsters
Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1 [View Original Post]
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10-03-22 20:54 #10474
Posts: 1117Beaten to the "red states" punchline...
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
I was just about to report on this very same topic, w/r to PVMongers post on "red states" and you beat me to punch...WELL DONE!
Great post!
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10-03-22 17:00 #10473
Posts: 2579Here's my 2 pesos
Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1 [View Original Post]
So I'm guessing its deliberate, so that when "election" day rolls around they can "cover up" their cheating.
When something like this happens with Lula for some reason the right hand and the left hand didn't match up.
And you have a huge discrepancy.
Political 3 card Monte!
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10-03-22 15:51 #10472
Posts: 5452Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
And for that we paid $2.5+ Trillion? How many people did it effect to make that dramatic move? 150? That must have been the number of new Fact Checkers the networks had to hire in order to keep up with Trump's 30,000+ lies.
In 2012, MittWitt Romney assured America that his superior Repub economic policies would get the unemployment rate to 6% in four years if we would only put him in the WH to do it.
Obama-Biden got it below 6% in less than two years.
So it's "baloney" that the USA government is "people"? How about corporations? Are they "people" but the USA government of, by and for We, The People is not?
Weepy Boehner was the one making the Repub case that business owners were the "job creators", a position that fuels his Party's lamebrain notion that Supply-Side / Trickle-Down tax and economic policy creates more jobs than the Dems' alternative even though it never has for almost 100 years.
Yeah, I am fine with Obama's take on it that corporations and business owners couldn't build anything without the economic infrastructure built by all taxpayers, not just them, and paying customers.
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10-03-22 15:00 #10471
Posts: 1068Gas higher in dem run cities
Originally Posted by CaliGuy [View Original Post]