I don’t know exactly why but Washington state gas is crazy high. Normal is $4.50 since ~ 2019. How come we can’t get cheap gas? Doesn’t matter now. Soon you’ll have $5 gas and we’ll have $7 gas. I want to see us go full Europe…$10 gas!
If gas gets expensive maybe it will make Americans reconsider how much their lives are revolving around cars and help push for more green alternatives and better urban planning.
You can’t reconsider having to walk 3 Miles uphill in freezing rain to get milk and water. In other places you can indeed ride a bike to various places.
Washington, similar to Cali, has a lot more gas tax built into our prices which is why they’re higher than most states. I think like .55/gal is taxes alone.
That’s true yes, but potentially even more impactful is that the Pacific coast of the USA is essentially independent of the rest of the country’s petroleum production and distribution. The Sierras and Cascades historically made overland distribution difficult and expensive, and maritime distribution from elsewhere in the country is also difficult because of geography (gotta do Panama canal or a long haul around South America). Because of these realities, petroleum extraction, refining and distribution in the west developed seperately and even today operate mostly independently - while technical solutions are now plausible, regulatory issues and moneyed interests that prefer the status quo continue to prevent development.
I don’t know exactly why but Washington state gas is crazy high. Normal is $4.50 since ~ 2019. How come we can’t get cheap gas? Doesn’t matter now. Soon you’ll have $5 gas and we’ll have $7 gas. I want to see us go full Europe…$10 gas!
If gas gets expensive maybe it will make Americans reconsider how much their lives are revolving around cars and help push for more green alternatives and better urban planning.
You can’t reconsider having to walk 3 Miles uphill in freezing rain to get milk and water. In other places you can indeed ride a bike to various places.
Washington, similar to Cali, has a lot more gas tax built into our prices which is why they’re higher than most states. I think like .55/gal is taxes alone.
That’s true yes, but potentially even more impactful is that the Pacific coast of the USA is essentially independent of the rest of the country’s petroleum production and distribution. The Sierras and Cascades historically made overland distribution difficult and expensive, and maritime distribution from elsewhere in the country is also difficult because of geography (gotta do Panama canal or a long haul around South America). Because of these realities, petroleum extraction, refining and distribution in the west developed seperately and even today operate mostly independently - while technical solutions are now plausible, regulatory issues and moneyed interests that prefer the status quo continue to prevent development.
Thanks for the additional info!