Think of how much money Americans would save if every day was election day!

Sorry, gotta ask, which election? I'm not seeing it. Prices are 35 cents lower than November 2022 and six cents lower than November 2020.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=emm_epmr_pte_nus_dpg&f=m

Sorry Abby, maybe it's just here in Colorado. Before the 2022 mid-term gas dropped from $4.20 (the sign is still up at a gas station that went out of business in August 2022), down to $2.85 in October 2022 (from my business receipts in that month) and we are back to $4.00 gas as of 2/11/2023. Maybe it was just a normal fluctuation in gas prices that had nothing to do with selling off from the petroleum reserves and buying an election, or at least the appearance of an election. Of course I should believe government numbers, not my own eyes or bank accounts. Why would the government lie about anything? Asking for a friend.

Gotcha, yes the states fluctuate wildly and I was looking at the national averages.

I'm in Colorado too (I don't remember if we've discussed that before) and the way I see it we had a double whammy. First, Polis had a new "fee" (can't call it a tax because of Tabor) all set to be implemented last spring. He held off implementing it out of the goodness of his heart when gas was already at a record price. (Or, he knew that the optics would have been terrible for a governor trying to get reelected.) So, that fee is now in place.

Then, in January the Suncor refinery in Denver shut down after supposed damage from the cold weather. (I've lived here over 25 years and we've had cold weather before.) Supposedly they now have one of six sections open, so it'll be a while before we see prices drop in Colorado.

I think we have spoken about being from Colorado (I grew up near Sterling and have lived on the Western Slope most of my life), I admit I've forgotten. I worked 35 years in oil and gas, and I agree, this cold thing at Suncor makes no sense. There is so much manipulation and deception going on that it seems like nothing can be trusted, especailly if there is government involvement. All of our supply chain disruptions are from the government, not reality. After state and federal government killed my oilfield career (Western Colorado sits on the 3rd largest natural gas province in the North America after the Marcellus in PA and the Gulf of Mexico- I thnk 7th largest in the world), I finished my "working life" driving truck over the road. Truckers saw the manipulation during COVD and we universally smelled the rat. Remember the "essential worker" farce? I was "essential" and all of our loads to "essential" food facilities continued, except for loads from the government proclaimed "non-essential" can and container industry. Cambell Soup could make all the soup they normally made, except they had no cans to put it in.
Several decades ago I was heavily involved in economic development and local government. Foster Farms gave us extensive presentations on why they wanted to locate chicken farms in Western Colorado and why they wanted to be widely distributed through out the region. (I grew up on a farm and knew about disease, contagion and prevention so this was all scientifically sound) The intent was to have isolated flocks in the event that a disease outbreak would occur in their more intensive regions like California and Arkansas. Each facility was "hermetically sealed" from the others to prevent any spread of disease between each of their local facilities in Colorado, and were designed specifically to produce replacement stock in the event of a problem geographically elsewhere. Last year the USDA claimed to have found 1 chicken with Asian Bird Flu. Highly unlikely because these birds are completely isolated from the rest of the world, as they were from each other's facilities. The USDA ordered the destruction of every chicken in Western Colorado to prevent the spread of the disease, the very thing these facilities were designed to prevent. The public numbers are lies Foster Farms destroyed 250,000 chickens, even healthy ones could not be processed for food. Egg shortage, my ass.