More people on the road than ever? Not a chance. More people working from home than ever, yes.
Look around and find how many jobs are now remote or at least partially remote. Traffic is maybe 60% of what it was. Maybe. It may be that the people that are required to drive for a living have to be on the road more than before, but not that more people are driving than ever.
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Crazy thought. . . If I can work remotely, maybe I'll travel the country (driving more) and work from anywhere with an internet connection!
Several things at play here and I'll try to touch on most of them.
#1. Back when the Saudis decided to cut oil price and pump max amounts they did it in order to hurt everyone that invested in the shale oil boom. They did a hell of a job. They made fracking in ND a losing proposition overnight (for drilling new wells) many publicly traded companies got caught and loss their pants as they were pouring cash into developing more wells. Those that survived the fallout saw their share holders demand profits be shared back and not poured into increased production. This carried forward, was reinforced by the pandemic and is ongoing. Most expansion of capacity is occuring in smaller, privately held companies. This slowed production.
2. Our refining capacity sucks. . . And over the course of COVID some smaller refineries went under, further reducing capacity. Couple that with the ungodly amount of red tape required to build a new refinery and big oil is happy to sell at a higher price to maintain profits vs increasing capacity to obtain those profits.
3. Supply chain and workforce limitations are harming refineries just as much as anywhere else!
4. We forced an artificial recession destroying demand and shutting down refineries and oil production making gas artificially low priced, then we handed out cash like a drunken sailor at at topless bar and filled up checking accounts of people that didn't "need" the money. . . Then bam we turned the economy back on and said go have fun! Demand jumped way faster than supply could handle and fuel prices shot up!
All this to say any president would have seen a huge jump in gas prices for all of the above reasons.
Now throw on top of that an anti fossil fuel agenda, canceling a pipeline, boycotting Russian oil, so on and so forth and it's really not hard to see a $5 national average in the near future!
So to be accurate, it's no "ALL" Bidens fault. He just decided instead of a plane ride we were gonna take a rocket ship to the moon!!!