Probably 40 states have an average price below the national average.

Cali and Alaska pull national average up and there is no way for a gulf coast or midwest sate to offset that.

Easy to disproportionally have higher prices, not easy to have disproportionally lower prices to offset an average.

I live in a non cheap state (NJ) where we can't even pump our own gas, and today I paid $5.06 for Diesel at the Speedway less than 2 miles from EWR. Yesterday I filled the wife's car for like $4.24 (87 octane)

CA, HI and AK skew the prices horribly. Median price would be better. HI and AK have logistics issues getting fuel there (shipping costs are nuts). CA is self inflicted.

Common yankee misconception. It’s global transactions we live or die on these days. Diesel floats world markets. I may live in mommy’s basement. My checkbook reads in bank notes. Money never keeps pace with future value under the bed.

Whatever. There’s different ways to argue this. The very simple point is the cost of filling up has risen substantially as a direct result of our Presidents unilateral actions.

Pentagon estimates at least 6 months to claim the Strait of Hormuz from mines. ZERO chance oil is in the $70s in June or July. ZERO CHANCE. Oil and it's Refined Products will remain higher for the foreseeable future

Oil hits $150 this summer. $200 possibly by year end

Oil has been marching steadily higher since the war began. The world is only just now beginning to experience the consequences of shutting down the straight. It takes weeks for tankers to cross the ocean. The real question that needs to be answered is; when do prices reverse course? If the straight opens today, it’s months to get ships back into position & we don’t have a ton of information about how much infrastructure has been destroyed or damaged or how long repairs will take. Not sure on what planet oil prices will be $70 by July.

Well, those prices are basically about the same as here in AK, we are a few cents higher...but not by many. We have several refineries in-state.

How dare you bring rationality and facts into this discussion!

pretty profound response.. I’m proven wrong so “whatever”

finally someone makes a real prediction.. I’ll hold ya to it.. Just to be clear, you say furloughs or no furloughs? That was an original prediction.

mine is “in the $70’s, not $70.” All it’s going to take is some SoH announcement that will have an immediate 15% drop, again, just like last month. Ships are already heading to our Gulf of America ports. When the SoH is fully functional that will just add to the return of oil to markets. Between both locations, the rebound will be quick.