Tag: gas prices

Enjoy the Modest Dip in Gas Prices While It Lasts

Commentary “We’ve been working really hard to bring the price down,” a COVID-stricken President Joe Biden claimed regarding gasoline prices in a virtual meeting with some of his energy and economic aides on Friday. It begs the question: how hard did he and his team work to bring the price of gas up over his…


Buttigieg Wants to Mandate Electric Vehicles. He’s Wrong

Commentary Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, considered the most likely Democratic candidate for president in 2024 after Joe Biden in the latest Washington Post ranking, says the solution to high gas prices is getting “most Americans” to switch to electric vehicles—willingly or not. Buttigieg is issuing federal regulations to force states to limit the use of…


Capitol Report (July 19): CCP Purchasing US Agriculture ‘Alarming’; Bannon Trial Begins

As inflation rages on, senators are advancing a bill hoping to lower costs on things like cars, computers, and more. They say it’s aimed at reducing our dependence on China and Taiwan for semiconductor chips. China has its eyes set on U.S. agricultural land. Although the amount they have been acquiring might not appear to…


Average US Gas Prices Could Reach $3.99 per Gallon by mid-August: Analysts

The average price of gasoline in the United States fell for the fifth consecutive week, tumbling 15.8 cents to $4.51 per gallon on July 18, according to GasBuddy. GasBuddy gathered data from more than 11 million individual price reports that covered over 150,000 gas stations across the nation. The report said the national average price per…


Average US Gas Prices Could Drop to $3.99 per Gallon by mid-August: Analysts

The average price of gasoline in the United States fell for the fifth consecutive week, tumbling 15.8 cents to $4.51 per gallon on July 18, according to GasBuddy. GasBuddy gathered data from more than 11 million individual price reports covering more than 150,000 gas stations across the nation. The report said the national average price per…


Biden’s Poorly Timed Visit to the Middle East

Commentary In 1988, five years after calling the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” President Ronald Reagan visited Moscow where he addressed an audience of students from Moscow State University. At the heart of his speech, Reagan promoted the virtues and success of liberty and his vision that tyranny would ultimately be defeated (recall his other…


High Inflation Figure Masks Even Higher Cost Hikes of Necessities

The June inflation figure of 9.1 percent, up half a percentage point from last month and the highest since 1981, doesn’t tell half the story of how expensive life has become for Americans. The overall figure hides the fact that not all prices have risen uniformly and that products that have become especially expensive also…


The Real Cost of Inflation for Most Americans

The June inflation figure of 9.1 percent, up half a percentage point from last month and the highest since 1981, doesn’t tell half the story of how expensive life has become for Americans. The overall figure hides the fact that not all prices have risen uniformly and that products that have become especially expensive also…


Gasoline Prices Fall For 26th Straight Day

Gasoline prices continued their decline on Sunday, easing some of the burdens on American citizens who have been grappling with rising gas prices for the past several months. “Average US #gasprices have now declined for the 26th straight day and are nearly 36c/gal lower than 26 days ago,” oil and refined products analyst Patrick De…


Biden’s ‘Hardline Stance’ Against Oil and Gas Driving Price Hikes: VP of Texas Public Policy Foundation

With recent polls showing that high gas prices are of primary concern to consumers and many experts forecasting gas prices going much higher in the near future, Chuck DeVore, vice president at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, said the Biden administration’s stance on fossil fuels isn’t helping. “We don’t have a lot of rigs out…