Well today I saw regular unleaded gas at $5 per gallon for the first time ever

[BeneteauBum]

while on my to grocery shop where I paid 30% more for the usual weekly items. This is insane. On top of that, my medical insurance went up $90/month. While these cost may not affect the affluent very much, the rest of America has to be freaking out. The rich are getting richer while the rest of us get the finger.

Peace ☮️

[surfered]

1. $4.13 on the Texas Coast and tell me again why I have to help pay for a $1 billion ballroom..

…for a guy who dances worse than I do?

[republianmushroom]

2. Patience Grasshopper as republican will tell you

things will get better soon.

[vapor2]

3. Over $5 in "Vegas

[dickthegrouch]

4. $6.49 last week in Sunnyvale, CA

Count your blessings!

[haele]

21. Last night, I saw $8.59 for Diesel at a Chevron...

Near a Walmart anchored shopping mall that caters to office drone/working class type of families.
In an "Affordable" area of San Diego, full of 1960's built rentals and Southern California Tiki apartments that need serious refurbishment (much more work than the paint, new carpet and appliance work they typically get every new tenant)
Yeah, there's going to be a bunch of angry parents unable to take the family off roading or camping this summer

[sinkingfeeling]

5. I can recall paying 27 cents a gallon.

[popsdenver]

11. I recall

gas costing 18 cents a gallon, and diesel 12 cents a gallon when I was 12...........years later, during my late teens, it had climbed to 28 cents a gallon, and costing under three bucks to fill my VW Bug's ten gallon tank...............

[NBachers]

26. "A buck's wortha lo-test, please."

[ToxMarz]

18. I recall when gas first went above $1 per gallon, no one had pumps that could display that.

They were all mechanical number displays that only did cents and tenths of a cent. All the pumps had to have a piece of paper with the $1 taped ahead of the price per gallon.

[state of stupid]

24. Long, long ago I would walk to the station down the street and pay 25 cents for a gallon to mow the lawn.

[Submariner]

6. I remember 17 cents for Sunoco 190

there were a Gulf, Esso, Sunoco, and Texaco stations battling out gas prices on each corner of a city intersection. It was nuts.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Same Here

Yesterday morning at the large city about 20 miles from us. Right near the highway there was a shell & a BP that had regular price starting with 5.

[Prairie Gates]

8. Everything's north of $5.30 here

EVERYTHING.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. There are some stations with $5 gasoline in Houston

I paid less in the suburbs

Link to tweet

[pfitz59]

10. $5.85 for regular in my town.

Almost $7.00 for diesel. The downtown dining districts are becoming ghost towns as folks opt to stay home and save gas. The bus and rail system has seen a steep upsurge in ridership. Its 'frogs in boiling water' times. Our society is so highly dependent on cheap gas that a seismic change is inevitable. And think, 3 more years of Trump!

[popsdenver]

14. In Denver

our bus and light rail ridership is declining every year, due to mismanagement of the RTD..........
We were sold a giant load of crap about both starting 20 years ago............

The price of Gas/Diesel is hitting us from all directions, not just our personal vehicles........Every thing in this nation moves by Trucks, Trains, Airplanes, and ships...........If you think the 30% increase in groceries and other things is already creaming you, just wait for this oil situation to clobber those prices BIG TIME.......

[byronius]

12. I remember five cents a gallon --

— but of course, I grew up in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

[allegorical oracle]

13. A trucker today on MS NOW showed his fuel receipt for more than $600. nt

[popsdenver]

16. Hell,

a few weeks ago I paid 200 bucks just to fill up the tank on my diesel pickup, I need to fill it up again, and I don't even want to guess what it will cost........

[misanthrope]

15. This is why there's increased desperation on the part of the GOP

They sense that a bill could be coming due at the polls as this continues. They know Trump's policies are trash. They know his leadership is null. They know he is psychotic and vengeful and they still don't care as long as it allows them to be "special" and keeps the lower classes at bay.

[AZ8theist]

17. It's hovered around $4.79/gl here in Mesa AZ

But diesel is around $6.

That means EVERYTHING is going to cost more since it's hauled by trucks.
And since the last crude just now reached our refinerys, the price increases have just started.

Who could have guessed that a demented imbecile, who failed at every single business he ever tried, could cause so much economic havoc???

Gee, if there were a couple of smart women who could have warned us.....

[SarcasticSatyr]

19. 4.59 in Central Florida, east coast . . .

. . . .

[ToxMarz]

20. Memorial Day weekend is in two weeks

I dread to see what they will want for gas then.

[Teacher of the Year]

27. They are going to bleed us dry.... as the stockholders of Chevron, etc. make BILLIONS

The news said we paid 24 billion dollars more for gas since the war. What will hardly be covered is when stockholders of the gas companies report they MADE 24 billion dollars more this year.

And that's not counting the betting on the market.

And they do it while they orchestrate constant social upheaval so we hate each other and don't pay attention to the fact that the one percent is moving all the puppet strings and the .01 percent sits atop it all like Lucifer on his throne.

[frogstar0]

22. We keep hitting tipping points $4 $5, $100 fill up...

We react to round numbers. Here in upstate NY $4.59 so far. Each new rise makes a few more magas quit him, and a bunch of 'lessor of two evils' voters turn.

[hatrack]

23. But just remember - somewhere in central Nebraska there's a trans teen who wants to play HS basketball . . .

And now they can't.

Doesn't that make it all worthwhile?

Oh, and eggs were expensive!

[democrank]

25. Yesterday, at the closest station to my rural Vermont village, gas was $4.50

I was in rural upstate New York last week where the gas was $4.40. Many people in rural areas have to commute a considerable distance to work and for some of those people, a few extra bucks a week is hard to dig up.

[Norrrm]

28. The true price hike is actually much more according to Trump's promise.

If gas is up 40% by today's numbers, then the base would be 71.43% of today's price.
But Trump promised to cut energy prices in half so the true base would be 35.71% of today's price.
That would be a 180% price increase by Trump's earlier promise.
As if Trump's promise/word had any value.
------------------------------
For 50%, the figures would be 66 2/3 % for base, 33 1/3% for half price base.
and 200% price increase.
-------------------------
When it hits 75%, the figures would be 57.14% for base, 28.57% for half price base.
and 250% price increase.

[musette_sf]

29. $6.24 for premium

at the South San Francisco Costco, for crying out loud.

[LoisB]

30. Just paid $6/gallon in SoCal. Had to top off the tank since I keep hearing that we

"may" have about a two-week supply of gasoline left.

[Martin68]

31. $4.45 here in VA, but this is early days. Do I hear $6.00? Anyone? Six dollars?