{"id":420028,"date":"2022-03-23T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pricey-gas-blame-your-state-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T00:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T21:00:01","slug":"pricey-gas-blame-your-state-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pricey-gas-blame-your-state-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Pricey gas? Blame your state and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af6898958859\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af6898958859\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pricey-gas-blame-your-state-and-other-commentary\/#%E2%80%9CPricey_gas_Blame_your_state_and_other_commentary%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Pricey gas? Blame your state and other commentary&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pricey-gas-blame-your-state-and-other-commentary\/#Energy_beat_Pricey_Gas_Blame_Your_State\" >Energy beat: Pricey Gas? Blame Your State<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pricey-gas-blame-your-state-and-other-commentary\/#From_the_left_Sad_Freakout_v_Free_Speech\" >From the left: Sad Freakout v. Free Speech<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pricey-gas-blame-your-state-and-other-commentary\/#Conservative_US_Elites_Wont_Let_COVID_Go\" >Conservative: US Elites Won\u2019t Let COVID Go<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pricey-gas-blame-your-state-and-other-commentary\/#Historian_Team_Joes_Cynical_Optimism\" >Historian: Team Joe\u2019s Cynical Optimism<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pricey-gas-blame-your-state-and-other-commentary\/#Democrat_Biden_Must_Face_Down_Putin\" >Democrat: Biden Must Face Down Putin<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CPricey_gas_Blame_your_state_and_other_commentary%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Pricey gas? Blame your state and other commentary&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/California_Gas_Prices-e1647981965479.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Energy_beat_Pricey_Gas_Blame_Your_State\"><\/span><strong>Energy beat: Pricey Gas? Blame Your State<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Gas prices across US states vary by as much as $2 a gallon, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/gas-prices-higher-in-democratic-leaning-states\">reports Steve Malanga at City Journal<\/a>, with state taxes and regulations playing \u201ca significant role\u201d in determining the \u201cburden consumers face.\u201d The highest prices are mainly \u201cin high-tax, heavily regulated Democratic states\u201d: California\u2019s at the top, at $5.78 a gallon, followed by Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Illinois, Connecticut and New York. \u201cAt the bottom sits Kansas, at $3.81 per gallon, followed by Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and Iowa.\u201d The costs affect a state\u2019s \u201ccompetitiveness,\u201d but for \u201cthe average consumer, it\u2019s becoming a question of how much pain he can bear.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_the_left_Sad_Freakout_v_Free_Speech\"><\/span><strong>From the left: Sad Freakout v. Free Speech<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A New York Times editorial on free speech has plunged \u201cpundits, academics and politicians . . . into a days-long freakout,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/worlds-dullest-editorial-launches?s=r\">notes TK News\u2019 Matt Taibbi<\/a>. The Times\u2019 text is totally \u201cmeh,\u201d yet many on the left find it \u201cmonstrous\u201d to compare \u201cRepublicans banning speech by law\u201d and Dems doing it via \u201cbackroom deals with unaccountable tech monopolies.\u201d The complainers think \u201cthe correct message [must be] hammered out everywhere . . . in all caps by mental superiors.\u201d Yet the Times editorial \u201cdrives two miles an hour down the middle of the middle of the middle of the road,\u201d so \u201cif this is anybody\u2019s idea of a taboo, we really have lost it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservative_US_Elites_Wont_Let_COVID_Go\"><\/span><strong>Conservative: US Elites Won\u2019t Let COVID Go<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/03\/most-americans-are-moving-on-from-covid-progressive-elites-arent\/\">National Review\u2019s Nate Hochman flags<\/a> \u201cthe drastic shift in public opinion on COVID-19 precautions\u201d: In an Axios poll, 64% \u201cfavor federal, state and local governments lifting all COVID-19 restrictions, up 20 percentage points since early February,\u201d with Democrats showing \u201cthe largest shift in views toward the pandemic\u201d as only 17% still see COVID-19 as a \u201csevere health risk.\u201d But young, college-educated progressives are \u201cthe most COVID-hawkish demographic in America,\u201d believing COVID \u201cpresents a great risk to their health,\u201d and mask mandates \u201cshould continue for the foreseeable future.\u201d They just don\u2019t see that \u201cthings are rapidly moving in the opposite direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Historian_Team_Joes_Cynical_Optimism\"><\/span><strong>Historian: Team Joe\u2019s Cynical Optimism<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It seems Team Biden \u201cintends to keep this war going,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2022-03-22\/niall-ferguson-putin-and-biden-misunderstand-history-in-ukraine-war\">warns Bloomberg Opinion\u2019s Niall Ferguson<\/a>: Keep supplying Ukraine with weapons in hopes it can provoke regime change in Russia and deter Chinese aggression. This \u201ccombines cynicism and optimism.\u201d The cynicism: \u201cTo allow the carnage in Ukraine to continue; to sit back and watch the heroic Ukrainians \u2018bleed Russia dry\u2019; to think of the conflict as a mere sub-plot in Cold War II, a struggle in which China is our real opponent.\u201d The optimism: To assume \u201cthat allowing the war to keep going will necessarily undermine Putin\u2019s position; and that his humiliation in turn will serve as a deterrent to China.\u201d Yet \u201cprolonging the war runs the risk not just\u201d of vast Ukrainian suffering, \u201cbut also of handing Putin something that he can plausibly present at home as victory.\u201d Coming days well may see Russian victories in the east and in the south. In short, \u201cthe Biden administration is making a colossal mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Democrat_Biden_Must_Face_Down_Putin\"><\/span><strong>Democrat: Biden Must Face Down Putin<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Although Americans \u201care wary of actions that could lead to a war with Russia,\u201d President Biden and NATO allies must do more to help Ukrainians push back Vladimir Putin, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/599106-bidens-ukraine-policy-must-evolve-defending-freedom-requires-risks\">argues Mark Penn at The Hill<\/a>. \u201cThe killing of civilians is escalating rather than receding,\u201d so \u201cwithout actual military or diplomatic intervention, the end here can only be an even greater loss of life and a crushing of the Ukrainian people.\u201d Washington \u201cshould honor all requests\u201d by Kyiv \u201cfor military assistance on its land and in its skies.\u201d Biden and other Western leaders need \u201cto put the fear in Putin that no tyrant will be allowed to unleash unchecked aggression and pay only with his MasterCard,\u201d despite his nuclear threats. \u201cPreserving freedom is a risky business, but it is a risk worth taking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Blame Your State Gas prices across US states vary by as much as $2 a gallon, reports Steve Malanga at City Journal, with state taxes and regulations playing \u201ca significant role\u201d in determining the \u201cburden consumers face.\u201d The highest prices are mainly \u201cin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":420029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/California_Gas_Prices-e1647981965479.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[127057,1545,43,70616,73816,100568,991,4356,126128,73234],"class_list":["post-420028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-22-22","tag-coronavirus","tag-editorial","tag-fast-takes","tag-free-speech","tag-gas-prices","tag-joe-biden","tag-nato","tag-ukraine-war","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}