Average U.S. retail gasoline prices crossed $3 a gallon for the first time since November on Monday as the conflict in the Middle East worsened, setting up a key test of public approval of President Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran, analysts said.
Tehran’s retaliation in response to U.S. and Israeli strikes has disrupted global oil supply, as it hit production facilities in neighboring countries and ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a key global trade route. Oil prices have surged, with Brent crude rising more than 5% to nearly $77 per barrel, and fuel prices moving up in tandem with the feedstock costs.
Keep in mind that in some countries, fuel is 3 dollars per litre.
“We did that!” - Trump and Kegsbreath
Yup, it jumped from. $2.90 to $3.50 near me today. I knew this would happen, glad I filled up yesterday.
Bitch, I haven’t seen $3 gas in a decade.
Hello California
Oh, bohoo. Those American gas guzzler riders would probably have a nervous breakdown at a European fuel station.
We have too many damned US-style “trucks” here in Australia now.
Our fuel prices have just crossed the equivalent of $5 USD/gallon ($1.90 AUD/litre); it will be interesting watching people squirm at the petrol pumps when the price inevitably increases another 50% or so.
We are currently at €1.85-1.90 here. The Dutch got it worse, IIRC they are at €2.60+ per litre.
Really hoping it gets up to $10 a gallon. Fuck all the SUV owners and the AI companies.
Uh, do you realize that with costs like that EVERYTHING will get more expensive? Every single good you buy anywhere has fuel costs baked into their price.
Yup. But its not a flat increase, some things travel further others more efficiently. Like where I live it might affect banana costs more than apple costs.
It disproportionately impacts lower cost goods. If it costs an extra 10 cents to ship a banana, that’s like a 20% increase in banana cost vs a 0.01% increase to ship an iphone the same distance. So another tax on the poor.
It is fun to watch them tear up at the filling station.
I filled up my hatchback for like $25 a week ago, and the f250 next to me spent $65. It’s going to get hilarious soon.
That pavement princess is gonna start costing the amount of a real princess.
Hmm.
I own a 2015 Hyundai Sonata (base model) which is a sedan, not an SUV. The gas tank capacity is 18 gallons.
I also own a 2025 Subaru Forester (Premium model), which is an SUV and has a gas tank capacity of approximately 17 gallons.
Difference is roughly the same between a sedan and an SUV and both use 87 octane.
A Suburban has a 30 gallon tank, a Ford F-150 has an almost 40 gallon tank. They ain’t talking about your crossover.
My point is they specifically called out SUVs and only SUVs. You are making my point right here that the issue isn’t SUVs but likely size and efficiency of the vehicle. I just thought calling out only SUVs was a weird broad criticism.
Sick flex, Tommy Two Cars
Average tank size for a sedan is like 12 gallons, btw. Imagine that, your experience isn’t representative of the whole. How mind blowing is that
I have three cars, this guy ain’t shit
Well I have 7 vehicles and 2 of them even mostly work today!
oh yeah well i have a bicycle AND i can ride it with no handlebars
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I see. So I’m an asshole for pointing out nuances?
Average size for American sedans is 12-18 gallons. That’s a range, but I do loooooove that you presented the low end as fact. Claps for you!
You’re disingenuously equating your full-size sedan and your crossover’s gas tanks and using that single piece of anecdotal (and completely unrelated) evidence to incorrectly imply that the drivers of sedans are going to suffer just as much as the dumbasses that still drive gas guzzlers.
Subcompact and compact cars generally have 8-10 gallon tanks, midsize cars generally have 10-14 gallon tanks, full size cars generally have 14-18 gallon tanks. The middle of that range is actually 13 gallons, so I was off a gallon. My b.
I like how you limited your data specifically to American sedans to fit your narrative though, despite neither of your cars being American, and despite American sedans not being even close to the top choice for sedan drivers, not even in America.
I’m saying person I responded to made a blanket statement about people owning a broad category of car. I pointed out that there are nuances and taking on particular broad group isn’t probably the right take. Using broad strokes is bad.
I’m not really sure what your stake is in being angry with your replies. If that isn’t your intent, that’s how it is coming across.
I used American SUVs because I was trying to talk about American buyers since this seemed to be aimed at the USA with the mention of gallons (yeah, other counties use it, but come on…we know it was meant towards the USA). Yes, I misused what I was trying to say.
It didn’t come off as nuance to me. Seemed more like you were providing an “um actually” semantic-wordplay type response, like you were striving for technically correct instead of just understanding the (pretty clear) implicit meaning in the comment you were replying to.
huh, my car has an 8 gallon tank. the standard isn’t tank size, it’s that you can drive it 400 miles
gas has been incredibly cheap and I think this is one thing that has kept us going over the last year. 8 bucks a gallon would be where it would be to be close to where we were post 9/11.
In what location? In the US, directly after 9/11, has was pegged at .99/gallon because Bush made some kind of deal with oil execs. But they did raise it eventually. Not to 8/gallon though. Unless you’re speaking of Europe?
no it went over 4 which would be well in excess of 8 nowadays
Close, but not quite. Still impressive that a mere 25 years almost halves your money’s value though.
If you had $10,000 cash in your mattress you would have less than $6000 now.
Always try to remind people similar things. Had my first job in highschool during the 2006/7 inflation. Making 8.25/hr when gas was 4.25+ after cash discount.
When it was around $4/gallon recently I told people to just fuck right off, since I was making at least 3x what I was 18/20 years ago. Still a bit ass since “18/20 years ago” makes me a mid-age adult now. Got them bigger bills. At least gas prices have slowed down.
that being said gas is easier to reduce usage of than electricity or natural gas or rent, mortgage, food, etc. Bike communiting exploded when gas went over 4 in my area and that was a summer and the real crazy part is it kept up pretty good that winter.
Yeah part of it is I treat the official as being short on inflation as from my experience the things that matter to the everyday folks. like is heavy on cars, electronics, and appliances and such and lighter on food and energy and housing and such. I think 8 is low and in my area it went over 4.
Are you thinking of Katrina? Granted, I wasn’t old enough to drive when 9/11 happened, but I don’t recall gas prices spiking. But they sure as hell did after Katrina.
Not like on the date of 9/11 but in the aftermath actions years later. Im talking basically about the aughts but I can’t recall waht year it went over 4 and it was over for awhile.
Gas prices hit $5 a gallon after the Iraq War.
Price of fuel in the USA always shocks me. Closer to $8 a gallon here in the uk.
I haven’t seen gas under $3 since Biden was around
That’s crazy, I live in Colorado and haven’t paid over $3 for years. About a month ago it was $2.15 for regular at the gas station I go to
Welcome to California suckers!
Actually I’m still paying nearly $5, but everyone is catching up.
I suspect we will continue outrunning them though.
That’s $1.08/L CAD. Think about that Canadians. They are complaining because their gas went up to $1.08/L 😆😅. Fuckers have no idea how good they have it. And kinda puts a spotlight on how things are here in Canada…4th largest oil producer in the world 🙄
Yeah, but you guys pay more because it includes taxes which go towards things like health care. We pay way more when you take into account what we don’t get.
You might pay more, which I doubt, but at least you have a functioning healthcare system. We pay crazy level taxes for “free” healthcare where people constantly die waiting in emergency rooms 🙄. They say Canada is a “rich” country. They are wrong. The Canadian government is rich from soaking Canadians dry with taxes upon taxes!!
US has gas taxes pay for roads.
Canada pays for roads through other taxes so that even people who don’t use them pay.
Canada sends our oil to the US and then buys it back. That makes up a lot of the difference.
What’s always funny is that pipeline interruptions don’t really affect supply for many weeks. This is just panic pricing.
And as always, prices go up instantly but takes months to drop back down.
Nice bit of sunshine today where I live, so I’ll charge our EV with surplus power from our solar panels. 🤣
I welcome high gas prices
