Hey America, you will pay $ONE BILLION$ more for your gas this labor day than you did last year!

[spanone]

Traveling for Memorial Day weekend? It's going to cost you.

Regular gas is predicted to cost $2.95 per gallon this holiday weekend, an almost 50 cent jump from this time last year, according to data from AAA. Drivers will end up paying $1 billion more for gas, reports GasBuddy.com.

In the past two weeks alone, gas has jumped at least 12 cents per gallon, sending motorists on a course to pay the highest Memorial Day prices since 2014.

Political clashes and basic economics have worked together to drive up prices, AAA spokeswoman Jeanette Casselano told NBC News.

"High global demand and shrinking global supply," said Casselano, along with "pending U.S. sanctions against Iran and Venezuela as well as OPEC cuts, and record U.S. oil production, are influencing higher crude oil prices in the market."

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/gas-will-cost-drivers-1-billion-more-memorial-day-weekend-n877181

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. At least half of those hardest hit by this will REFUSE to acknowledge why it happened

And that is why we cant fix this.

[bornfree17]

2. It seems

To happen every year at this time. How would we fix this? No sarcasm

[spanone]

4. it's not the same as every year if we're paying a BILLION more than last year.

[bornfree17]

8. I'm sure what you are saying

is true, but I did do a little research to compare 2014 and 2018 since I keep reading that prices were not this high since 2014

In 2014 the median income was $51,939. and on memorial weekend national average gas price was $2.49 per gallon

in 2018 the median income is 58,829.00 this weekend the average gas price is 2.96 per gallon

I've been alive too long, it's just one big circle

We have been down this road before and we will survive it. All those driving gas guzzlers will probably trade in their cars/SUVs for smaller cars then gas will go down enough for it to be the new normal and SUVs will become popular again and on and on we go

[Nonhlanhla]

3. Paid more at the pump this morning

I have not paid over $30 for a tank for my Honda in quite some time - this morning it was $31 to fill. It's been creeping up from the low $20's to there, and I guess it will creep up some more. It's the effect of higher gas prices on consumer goods that concerns me the most.

[dalton99a]

5. Great news for Putin and the Saudis

[Squinch]

6. The idiot republican president's plan for his best buddy Putin is working.

[gratuitous]

7. At least now we know what to spend that fabulous tax cut on

While you proles gas up to get to your underpaid job, the wealthy will be vacationing on the Riviera with their tax cut money.

[Achilleaze]

9. Thanks a diaperload, republicans. This is on you.

[NickB79]

10. This is the fault of US drivers as much as anyone else

Everyone goes out and starts buying trucks and SUV's again and can't figure out why gas prices are climbing. We're too goddamn stupid to figure out this conservation-for-future-generations thing, I guess.

Fuck it, I just got a nice used Prius despite all the guys at the factory laughing at me for it. They can eat a dick filling their trucks up for $100/tank while I drop $30 every 2-3 weeks.

[maveric]

11. It's approaching $4.00 a gallon in San Diego.

I’m staying home this weekend.

[Blue_Tires]

12. At least Trump folks in flyover country got to stick it to those Wall Street elitists, amirite??

Interesting how their "economic anxieties" aren't being affected by the pump prices...

[roamer65]

13. It should be $4/gallon...or $1/liter.

Small price to pay for fermented dinosaur shit.

The Ghawar oil fields in Saudi Arabia were basically a big dinosaur litter box.