{"id":36243,"date":"2024-08-25T09:51:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T13:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=36243"},"modified":"2024-08-25T10:09:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T14:09:55","slug":"could-gas-prices-be-heading-for-3-per-gallon-some-experts-think-so-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=36243","title":{"rendered":"Could gas prices be heading for $3 per gallon? Some experts think so : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/urlhttp3A2F2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com2F5f2Fe92F0b5c07df4ecd9a81393999a09a932Fgettyimages-2157178123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"202\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Pump prices having been falling all summer, and as Labor Day approaches, they&#8217;re 47 cents lower than this time last year. Some analysts see $3 gasoline in our future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/08\/23\/nx-s1-5082422\/gas-prices-lower-pump-summer\">Could gas prices be heading for $3 per gallon? Some experts think so : NPR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Despite the devastating effects of Katrina and Rita on oil supplies, those storms were seen as outliers. Typically, late-season storms have less impact on fuel prices, according to Tom Kloza, the global head of energy analysis for the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS). That\u2019s because every year, around August, the industry transitions&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/living.acg.aaa.com\/auto\/what-to-know-about-gasoline-blends-summer-vs-winter#:~:text=Winter%2Dblend%20gas%20has%20a,evaporation%20when%20outside%20temperatures%20rise.\">from a summer blend to a winter blend<\/a>&nbsp;of gasoline. The winter blend, which evaporates at lower temperatures, is less expensive to produce. And that switch occurs just as the summer driving season is waning.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Kloza points to several factors to explain the change: Remote work means fewer commuters. There are an estimated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edmunds.com\/electric-car\/articles\/how-many-electric-cars-in-us.html\">3.3 million electric vehicles<\/a>&nbsp;on U.S. roads, more than twice as many as in 2021. More EVs have helped keep demand for gasoline in check, although Kloza notes that the effect is relatively modest, with every million EVs sold reducing demand by about 22,000 barrels a day. And Kloza also notes the gradually aging U.S. population \u2014 older Americans, he says, \u201ctend to drive a lot less.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; 2024-08-25 &#8211; Sunday <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>earlier I wrote this about TFG&#8217;s solution for inflation, housing, etc. is to &#8220;Drill Baby Drill&#8221; and expand extraction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>tfg&#8217;s suggestion that economy can be fixed by &#8220;drill baby drill&#8221; and &#8220;make usa biggest energy producer&#8221; ignores the fact that usa is currnrlt biggest producer of opil in the world. and is the strongest economy in the world<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; 2024-08-25 &#8211; Sunday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>something about this is important:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/chart-usa-total-automobiles-2024-08-25_10-06-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/chart-usa-total-automobiles-2024-08-25_10-06-04-1024x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36249\" width=\"621\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/chart-usa-total-automobiles-2024-08-25_10-06-04-1024x368.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/chart-usa-total-automobiles-2024-08-25_10-06-04-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/chart-usa-total-automobiles-2024-08-25_10-06-04-768x276.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/chart-usa-total-automobiles-2024-08-25_10-06-04-750x269.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/chart-usa-total-automobiles-2024-08-25_10-06-04-675x242.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/chart-usa-total-automobiles-2024-08-25_10-06-04.jpg 1030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>so 3.3 ev \/ 283 total is ~1.1%, so not near the 5% so-called tipping point i read elsewhere. ???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pump prices having been falling all summer, and as Labor Day approaches,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[18,753,33,57],"class_list":["post-36243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-economics","tag-gas","tag-oil","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36250,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36243\/revisions\/36250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}