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Have you noticed that gas prices generally just sit there at the same price for YEARS at a time. They take various excuses (like this one) and do their 5-10 year bump. We'll be talking about gas being JUST $6 in 2030 and then the next crisis will bring it to $12 and it will, stay there for many years.


>Have you noticed that gas prices generally just sit there at the same price for YEARS at a time. They take various excuses (like this one) and do their 5-10 year bump.

This simply is not true. For example, gas was generally cheaper in the stretch from 2015-2021 than it was from 2011-2014[1].

[1] - [https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=e...]


Gas prices always shoot up on the news but very, very slowly come back down when that reason goes away. I've never seen a gas price drop on news.




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