Why is Gas so Expensive?

Oil from the Middle East ships on tankers that take 90 days to travel to the U.S. It goes through a port of entry and is shipped to a refinery where it's stored for refining into gasoline. After it's refined, it's stored for shipping to gas stations. Counting the time it took from the original sale to get to the port of exit in the Middle East, the price at the pump is for oil that was bought about four months ago. Oil pumped in the U.S. can skip the 90 days of shipping, but that oil still takes time to pump, ship and refine.

Another way to put it is that there's a disconnect between the cost at the pump and the cost of the oil used to make that gas. A change in the price of oil has no affect on the price of gas already at the pump today. That oil is months away from being sold as gas. Is the public being gouged? Yes. Does the government care? No. Is this a coordinated plan between the Biden administration and oil companies? That's a good question. See: campaign contributions. Is the Biden administration allowing the gouging as a backdoor green energy policy? Undoubtedly.

The price of oil today is $120.70. The price of oil four months ago that is gasoline at the pumps today was $89.88. Why is gas so expensive?

Book Stuff

I got some work done toward the B'vellah War series. It wasn't anything to brag about. I found an error in book 1. Marion notices some dark stains on a sasquatch that he thinks are blood. In reality, he would automatically recognize blood by its colors. Ugh.

Fiverr Side Gig

I'm still working on getting that off the ground. As mentioned before, I don't have all the equipment I need. An $8 part arrived yesterday. I did some testing. It looks like I have enough to get by for now. If I can put some work into this weekend, next week could be when I finally get started. Once things are going is when I'll have more details.

Have a great weekend.