{"id":1375445,"date":"2022-03-14T08:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T12:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1375445"},"modified":"2022-03-14T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T12:56:05","slug":"u-s-average-gas-prices-soar-22-in-two-weeks-to-record-4-43-per-gallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-average-gas-prices-soar-22-in-two-weeks-to-record-4-43-per-gallon\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Average Gas Prices Soar 22% in Two Weeks to Record $4.43 Per Gallon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-average-gas-prices-soar-22-in-two-weeks-to-record-4-43-per-gallon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1375445&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Up, up and you pay. The average U.S. price for regular-grade gasoline at the pump soared a whopping 79 cents over the past two weeks to hit a record $4.43 per gallon on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>That exceeds by 32 cents the prior all-time high of $4.11 set in July 2008, AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gas-prices-record-high-russia-ukraine-ac7fcc350ad1f1c71db4185b99fef112\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday the new price is still some way\u00a0from the inflation-adjusted record high of about $5.24 per gallon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">The price at the pump is $1.54 higher than it was a year ago, with plenty of consumers pointing directly at President Joe Biden and his policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">Stickers depicting a smiling Biden with a pointed finger captioned \u201cI did that!\u201d are popping up at gas pumps throughout the country as pockets of working-class Americans continue to feel the economic strain, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/03\/13\/i-did-that-biden-stickers-plastered-on-gas-pumps-throughout-country\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20207300\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/I-Did-That-Biden-Sticker.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>\u201cI Did That\u201d Biden sticker is being seen at more gas stations. (Screenshot\/My Mizzi\/Twitter)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20210138\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239176478.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20210138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239176478-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A gasoline pump sits at an Exxon gas station in Washington, DC, on March 13, 2022. U.S. consumer prices saw their biggest annual increase in more than 40 years last month, rising 7.9 percent compared to February 2021 as inflation continues to batter the economy. (STEFANI REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">Lundberg forecast\u00a0gas prices are likely to remain high\u00a0in the short term as crude oil costs soar amid global supply concerns following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">Diesel prices have also seen an increase, with the price up $1.18 in recent weeks, averaging $5.20 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The White House is desperate to pin the blame for high U.S. gas prices squarely Russian President\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Vladimir Putin<\/span>\u00a0while ignoring the all-around effect of Bidenflation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Biden administration has delivered the worst inflation that Americans have seen in 40 years, far outpacing higher wages as more and more critics are noting:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\">Jack Knudsen \/ Breitbart News<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis is a Putin spike at the gas pump, not one prompted by our sanctions,\u201d White House press secretary\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/jen-psaki\" data-nid=\"528833\">Jen Psaki<\/a><\/span>\u00a0claimed last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">Nationwide, the highest average price for regular-grade gas is in the San Francisco Bay Area, at $5.79 per gallon. The lowest average is in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at $3.80 per gallon, AP outlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">According to the survey, the average price of diesel also spiked, up $1.18 over two weeks, to $5.20 a gallon. Diesel costs $2.11 more than it did one year ago.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up, up and you pay. The average U.S. price for regular-grade gasoline at the pump soared a whopping 79 cents over the past two weeks to hit a record $4.43<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}