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.”
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.