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LA gas prices up 14 cents in 4 days

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Four days ago, I posted a picture of the prices at the Shell station at the corner of Fairfax and Beverly in Los Angeles–one of the cheapest places to get gas in the Hollywood area.  Then, a gallon of regular was $3.93.  Here’s a picture of the same sign taken four days later:

Up 14 cents in just 4 days. No wonder the AP is reporting that “Gasoline prices have never been higher this time of the year“:

At $3.53 a gallon, prices are already up 25 cents since Jan. 1. And experts say they could reach a record $4.25 a gallon by late April.

Since they’re already approaching that level in LA this week, seems that it’ll cost us more than $5 to buy a gallon of gas come Memorial Day. And then some.

UPDATE: For several reasons, Steven Hayward finds “curious” a New York Times story suggesting that rising gasoline prices may present a political problem for Obama:

First, Obama, like all right-thinking greenies, want gasoline prices to be higher, though, to be sure, they want high prices brought about by a government tax rather than the marketplace.  High gas prices are no fun if it means more profits for private oil companies.  Obama admitted this directly when asked about high gas prices in 2008, when he said he didn’t have a problem with them, only that he “would have preferred a gradual adjustment.”  Well, prices have crept up gradually since they collapsed back to about $2 a gallon in 2008.  So what’s his problem?

Read the whole thing for his analysis of how gas prices relate to presidential approval.

Comments

  1. If the Republicans are smart they will not let this Keystone Pipeline issue go away for one second between now and the election. Every dollar spent between now and the election for people on gas should be a reminder that this president will put politics and favors before the wallet of the average American or their finding a job.

  2. The Republicans should hammer Obama constantly all Fall before the general election about how he prefers the Canadians sell their pipeline oil to the Chinese rather than the American gasoline refiners…while we have to import refinery oil from Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelans.