Oil prices dropping like a turd in a toilet.

Looks like you the lack of reported new bird flu outbreaks is likely the reason.

Or, with this administration of total liars and criminals, it is more likely that the FDA is lying its arse off about the sudden disappearance of bird flu and that they are green lighting the sale of eggs from infected farms.

Egg prices are rapidly falling so far in March

 

No, this is.

It's due to falling demand. But I get it, you were dropped on your head as a child.

Thus, I won't blow your mind and mention how this is actually bad for domestic production. . . Oops!

 

Title is a lie... Turds dont drop down toilets under Trump. He famously clogged so many toilets he doesnt stay at the White House anymore.

 

The bird-flu outbreak caused the egg prices to rise. Once the flu is contained and the flocks are replaced the egg prices will drop, unless we have fired those USDA employees responsible for monitoring and controlling another bird-flu outbreak.

 

People were predicting a recession in 2023 and 2024. We may be in a recession now and it may have started last year.

Historically the US Has recessions every 4-6 years on average

 

Presidents have little to no control over gas prices, so the answer to your question about a liberal president lowering gas prices is the same for conservative presidents, which is there aren’t any.

 

And always under a Republican president lowering gas.

 

Predicting a recession and suffering a recession are two different things and the one's predicting recession last two years were right wing hopefuls. Most non-partisan people reported the US economy as the strongest in the world in 2023 and 2024 and noted the goldilocks level of performance. No longer as the stock market crashes and GDP plummets ONLY in the US. Europe stocks are up like 8% this year. Asia doing well mostly too.

European stocks steady after US markets plunge

Donald Trump makes Chinese stocks (somewhat) great again | Reuters

 

I would actually prefer higher prices on gasoline, but I would like that to occur through higher gas taxes, not increased consumption. The federal gas taxes have not been adjusted for inflation since 1992. The cost to build and maintain the roads certainly has gone up since then. We should be paying an extra $0.20 a gallon or so just because of that (basically, we are freeloaders, telling our grandchildren to pay for road maintenance). Higher gas taxes decreases usage of gasoline. People were driving MUCH less (and at lower speeds) in 2008 when gas prices hit $4.90 a gallon. They started buying more fuel-efficient vehicles. When the gas prices came down, we returned to being a gas guzzling country, buying larger trucks and SUV's, and faster sports cars. I don't want to prohibit people from doing those things, but they should at least pay the price to maintain the roads. Oil will run out at some point, and if we are still dependent on it for transportation, civilization will devolve into a Mad Max-type world. Assuming that science will bail us out when the fuel runs out is just idiotic, and it's contributing to all the destruction of Global Warming (sea level rise, coastal cities becoming uninhabitable, stronger hurricanes, extended droughts, unpredictable floods, etc.). People would be persuaded to think more about how fuel-efficient their vehicles should be vs. how important it is to have the biggest truck on the block.

We should ramp up gas taxes gradually, and do it in conjunction with gradual increases to the federal minimum wage (which has not increased since 2007). I would increase it by $0.03/gal every quarter, while raising minimum wage by $0.25 - $0.50/hr every year. The working poor would get another $500-$1000/yr in wages, while paying out $50-$100/yr in additional fuel taxes. Making changes gradually will not affect the economy.

 

“We’re looking very strongly at sinks and showers, and other elements of bathrooms”.

 

In addition to lack of inflation-indexing, another “problem” with EV adoption is they don’t pay gas taxes at all! Despite them typical being also much heavier to comparable ICE vehicles, causing more wear and tear on roads per mile driven.

Gas taxes probably don’t make much sense anymore, and will make even less sense as EV adoption grows, distorting the true costs even more. Might as well come up with a mileage x vehicle weight formula and have the states do it at time of vehicle registration. Such a shift should be mostly neutral for those who drive ICE vehicles a typical mileage, and it will make sure EV mileage is also captured for road repairs. There no doubt this shift needs to happen, but I also have no doubt Republicans would deploy misinformation around vehicle registration should certain states want to collect it that method as a lump sum instead of burying it in a “per gallon” cost. “LoOk hOw ExPeNsIvE tHeM LiBrULs mAdE mUh VeHiCLe rEgIsTrAtIoN”.

 

That is a somewhat sensible policy on the surface to put EV’s more on par with gasoline (as far as road “usage” taxes), but unlike gasoline most EV charging happens at home so it fails to capture most EV miles if the charging occurred at home.

Don’t get me wrong, if we want to encourage EV adoption maybe it’s even a good idea to have this small perk of ownership. Maybe get rid of all these mileage taxes period. But then roads would have to be funded in other ways…

 

Spring break for most this week, hence higher demand

 

Actually the price of gas at the pump tends to increase at this time of the year by a factor unrelated to demand. Refineries change the formulation of gasoline from winter formulation to the more expensive summer formulation combined with refineries temporarily shutting down while the change is in process.
Seasonal Gas Prices Explained

 

How does Oklahoma generate revenues from EVs for road maintenance?

 

I pay an extra fee every year for my EV. I think it only goes to the state though.

 

Yes except they haven’t switched over to the summer blend yet…it’s still winter