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Stop Saying Americans Need to Pay More for Gas to Protect Democracy
Don’t insult poorer Americans by pretending that paying more at the pump is some act of virtue
Like many Americans, I recently filled up my gas tank and soon thereafter cried out to God asking why can’t anything be cheaper in this expensive country.
Over the weekend, Patrick De Haan, who serves as head of petroleum analysis at the fuel-saving app GasBuddy, said that the national average price for gas will hit the $4 mark. “The national average of gasoline appears poised to breach the $4/gal mark today for only the second time ever,” he tweeted. So it did.
As reported, gas prices haven’t been that high since July 2008, when prices hit $4.10 per gallon during the Great Recession.
I hadn’t noticed because it was already above that from where I’m writing this, but my condolences to my fellow Americans in the struggle of filling up your tank.
The prices reflect growing concern over Russia invading Ukraine.
“This is a milestone that was hard to imagine happening so quickly, but with bipartisan support of severe sanctions on Russia, is not exactly surprising — it is the cost of choking off Russia from energy revenue,” De Haan explained in a recent…
