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| Above, the Durango train gets ready to leave the station. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Unless gasoline prices make a drastic drop, it appears that any vacation road trips I'll do this summer will be relatively close to home. I was thinking of heading up to Wyoming and South Dakota.
My immediate thoughts are going up to Durango, Colorado or Monument Valley, Utah. Both are within a day's drive and won't break the bank (too much).
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| Above, Goulding's Lodge Campground near Monument Valley. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
According to the Idaho Statesman:
For anyone west of Nebraska, it’s no surprise that gasoline prices are highest in the West. Unless you’re in Wyoming, Colorado or New Mexico.
Skyrocketing crude oil prices and the deteriorating political situation in Ukraine are soon expected to send prices soaring. On Tuesday, the price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude oil sold for $92.94, a jump of $1.87 from Friday and $33.90 from a year ago. Oil rose to its highest level since 2014 after Russia sent troops to two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine.
Idaho’s price equaled the national average, but was significantly higher than the $3.40 charged in neighboring Wyoming, 5 cents more than Colorado. New Mexico had gas for $3.49, while the average price in Utah was $3.41.
GasBuddy predicts gas prices could reach $4 a gallon by this spring. That’s based on predictions for coronavirus recovery and increased demand before additional oil supplies arrive later in the year.
His Fraudulency Joe Biden is not off the hook when it comes to oil prices.
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| Above, a sticker on a Flying J gas pump. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Bryan Bashur wrote in The Hill:
The Biden administration exacerbated the inflation of gas prices by both restricting the supply of oil and pressuring banks and asset managers to divest from traditional energy projects. The result of these flawed policies is weakened purchasing power for consumers and more reliance on foreign countries to keep the United States powered.
President Biden is restricting America’s ability to produce its own oil and is instead relying on foreign countries, some of which have governments run by totalitarian regimes, to produce more oil to lower gas prices. Biden’s decision to cut off avenues for more domestic supply of oil by canceling the Keystone XL pipeline and limiting exploration on federal lands and waters gives the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) significant leverage over American energy consumption.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) hit the nail on the head by stating that, “begging the Saudis to increase production while the White House ties one hand behind the backs of American energy companies is pathetic and embarrassing.”
As my motorhome's gas tank has a capacity of 55 gallons, vacationing closer to home seems to be the more prudent thing to do.
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