• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The price per barrel includes almost all those expenses, so inflation should be reflected there.

    The rest is offset by a gas tax that’s deflationary. The federal tax of 18.4 cents per gallon hasn’t changed since 1993.

    The price at the pump should be correlated much more strongly with the price of a barrel than with inflation, and the price per barrel was similar or higher during the Bush administration.

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      1 year ago

      The price per barrel includes almost all those expenses, so inflation should be reflected there.

      Right, which means that the inflation adjusted price of oil today is significantly lower than it was in 2008.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, but the price at the pump isn’t reflective of the current price of oil, which is the whole point of what I’m saying. The price of oil hasn’t kept up with inflation while the price at the pump has outpaced inflation.

        There’s some fuckery there.