30¢ gas price hike in Kansas City area yesterday.

The old switch from winter blend to summer blend is likely to blame. The old wise tale.
According to our local cooperative the recent completion of a section of Canadian oil pipeline to the ocean will permanently raise midwestern fuel prices,

About a week after its completion prices jumped 50 cents and although bouncing around have stayed elevated .

The myth of companies building infrastructure to help consumers remains firmly a myth.

The typical and atypical reasons are mostly listed here,


Canada getting more of its oil exported isn’t helping prices though and combined with an unprecedented number of failed refineries and the switch to summer gas isn’t helping either.

If your tired of seeing the wild gas price flucuations...... buy an EV

Buy a good PHEV and you can hedge your bets either way
 
Even at $3.29 a gallon that is still considerably better than what we pay in most of Canada. Here in Southern Ontario the typical price is about $1.50 per liter.
 
Even at $3.29 a gallon that is still considerably better than what we pay in most of Canada. Here in Southern Ontario the typical price is about $1.50 per liter.
Canada and California would be a better comparison, portions of CA have been bouncing around $6/gallon since September which is similar to Canada.
 
It's election year, it always drop a fraction of what it went up. Pic from EIA.

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BP’s Whiting refinery suffered a power outage due to a transformer issue at the beginning of February and wasn’t till last week they started bringing the plant back online with “early March” being their target for 100%.
 
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