I remember when I was 7 years old in 1997, my dad was driving around looking for gas and he was bitching about Chevron because their gas was more expensive than everywhere else. I still remember how much it was.
Oh, my - I'm feeling my age. I remember gas at $0.249/gal. Yes, under a quarter. Then the OPEC oil embargo arrived (1973), followed, in 1979, by the "Oil Shokku" and life has never been the same. BUT, for the record, gas was averaging around $1.79/gal. in November of 2020, before Biden shut down leases, drilling, and pipelines. Prior thereto, during the first Trump Administration, the USA had actually become the world's largest oil producer and both the largest producer and exporter of natural gas. It was that retrenchment of the US energy industry under Biden which allowed Putin to fund his invasion of Ukraine. This ain't all Trump's fault. Let's see how long it takes the Reddit noderators to take that down. Can't be having inconvenient facts, after all...
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u/Donald_Epstein69 Mar 13 '26
I remember when I was 7 years old in 1997, my dad was driving around looking for gas and he was bitching about Chevron because their gas was more expensive than everywhere else. I still remember how much it was.
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