Chris Wright says ‘I don’t know’ when asked about lower cost of gas as average price soars to $4 a gallon in US
Chris Wright, the Trump administration’s energy secretary, acknowledged Sunday that it might not be until 2027 before US gas prices come back under $3 a gallon.
Asked by Jake Tapper, the CNN State of the Union host, when he thought “it’s realistic for Americans to expect the gas will go back to under $3 a gallon”, Wright replied: “I don’t know. That could happen later this year. That might not happen until next year.”
Or ever. Every time prices on anything go up, they might go back down some when whatever excuse was given to jack them up goes away but they never go back to what they initially were.
The only savings grace to these high gas prices, is if they remain high till November then democrats will sweep midterms.
Yeah maybe, but if history is correct, if they dont fix everything in 6 months voters will throw the bums back in.
In a way this good, so people won’t forget this issue before November.
One step at a time, man. It’s not exactly a guarantee that prices get back under FOUR dollars a gallon in 2026 first.
Still dead cheap.
Here in the Canary Islands (Spain) it’s 5,10 - 5,50 $, in Germany around 9,40 $ per gallon…
Much of this is taxes, though. Also to nudge people towards driving less, use public transport or buy electric vehicles.
About time to move away from oil and gas…
Compared to other developed nations, yes, but it still hits Americans very hard because cars are by no means a luxury in the vast majority of places and circumstances in America.
It’s not something you can just forego and be a few minutes late on a crowded tram or not be able to stop for coffee on the way; even in places with relatively good public transit intrastructure that aren’t the largest of the largest cities, it could be the difference between being there in 15 minutes and being there in two hours with no way back except a $30 cab ride because you miscalculated and missed the last (but still pretty early) bus by two minutes.
Some people just don’t understand how much slower the bus is. A trip from my house to my brother’s apartment downtown via a bus is a 3 hr trip with a connection at a hub and a half-mile walk.
I can jump in my car any time, and be there in 15-20 minutes.
If we can get that time down to maybe 40 minutes, then I might consider taking a bus, but until then, it just doesn’t work out.
Because we don’t fund public transit and more importantly, we don’t give them priority right of way. There is no reason a bus full of people should have to wait for a single person in their car to turn, merge, etc.
There is also scale at play. A one way 45 minute commute without traffic is far from u heard of in the US, and many of drive in one or 2 days as much as many other places will in a month in both time and sistsnce due to the reasons that you pointed out.
You‘re right. But it’s no different elsewhere. I lived in a village in Germany only 25 km (~15 miles) from a metropolitan area. There were literally 4 bus connections a day but on the other side the commute by car could add up to an hour if you had to go to the centre of that agglomeration.
I don’t think you understand: in the US, there would be zero connections to a village 15 miles outside a metro area. Some long-distance buses (Greyhounds) exist that, in a city with a bus system, may stop at the terminal, but these are normally stopping at Amtrak train stations that are few and far between along rail lines that are already exceedingly uncommon.
Four connections a day would be a godsend to most places in the US. When I gave a comparison, I was considering a commute from a suburb (i.e., directly attached to the rest of the city) to maybe halfway across a city of a few hundred thousand people.
When I said a difference of 0.25 and 2 hours, I was talking about a reasonably good transit system by US standards. You would have functionally no choice in your case; you’d have a dangerous five-hour walk into town through a rural area where people barely paying attention do 100 km/h down two-lane roads.
Better for climate change to have gas prices rise more honestly.
Perhaps, but also people will just go into more debt or cut other expenses.
Gas costing $50 at the pump will aid renewables advocacy immensely.
Or it means a lot more people will be unemployed. The Enforcer Class wants more people to beat within an inch of death.
by then $3 will be worth $1
And they will stay above that if he has anything to do with it.
So never.
I hope trump and the Republican party learns just how much the median US voter cares about gas prices.
Didn’t Trump say he kidnapped the president of Venezuela to bring down oil prices?
Sure, but a good chunk will suddenly stop caring because Daddy told them to 😔
hmm yes “short term pain long term gain” and somesuch. Oh, and “you need to be a team player”.
Don’t forget to stop buying Avocado toast, or Starbucks!
Mostly I’ve heard that we were on the brink of being nuked by the weapons we obliterated a few months ago
Ah yes. If Iran has nukes, then they will be used within the hour to kill us all. Confirmed by vacuous truth.
Once they manage to sell their pickup trucks. Never seen so many on the market XD
The used EV market here has just vanished. There’s almost nothing for sale and prices are almost at new car levels for decade old EVs.
There’s been so much inflation that $3/gallon would be really cheap, even for gasoline in the US, by the standards of the last 20 years or so. A very arbitrary number to get stuck on.
US Average Gasoline Price Adjusted for Inflation
$4/gallon just isn’t that high, not much out of line with the last ~15 years.
I think higher fuel prices could be the impetus for quite a lot of alternative energy, alternative transport, and electrification investment. I think if you believe that free markets work, you’d really have to agree.
They try to keep gas tacked to minimum wage in the US on purpose
If the poors can’t drive to work the machine grinds to a halt.
Why would they? The Strait is still closed right now, is it not?
Oil just jumped 7% in the past hour.
Typical gaslighting, everyone knows that it will never come back down, because they want everyone to take it up the rump for Trump by paying out their nose for everything.
This is still relatively cheap compared to other developed nations.
A really rough way for Americans to understand these prices is to take the liters/$ price and multiply it by 4. So my friend in Greece who pays 2,22 a liter is actually paying close to $8 a gallon.
More accurate would be 3.73 or about, but 4 is good enough.
And the gas cos will be so proud of their record profits.
