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Well, Biden did blow up a pipe line that supplied Russian gas to Europe. He also did nothing to improve the horrible situation in Venezuela that Trump started. He actually just doubled down on it.

Not on the level of what Trump has done. But every US president is consistently working to ensure US oligarchs have control of the oil supply. And that doesn't always mean literally stealing oil. It's more about control.

Sometimes that brings domestic gas prices down. Sometimes it makes them go up. Sometimes that means blowing up pipelines. Sometimes that means kidnapping a countries elected leader.

The president WANTS domestic gas prices to be low. It helps their approval ratings and party elections. But, the president is subject to the wishes of the oil and war oligarchs. And they are fucking thirsty right now.

*war in Ukraine

You guys life in a tech dystopia with a utopian future sticker plastered in front.

Well gas prices were definitely lower on February 26th before that asshole started a war with Iran.

Right, under $5/gallon? Braggart.

That's looks like ~1.30-1.50 more a gallon to me.

In Canada, The United States, and Mexico, the advertised octane rating is the average of the RON and the MON, called the Anti-Knock Index (AKI). It is often written on pumps as (R+M)/2. AKI is also sometimes called PON (Pump Octane Number).

Because of the 8 to 12 octane number difference between RON and MON noted above, the AKI shown in Canada and the United States is 4 to 6 octane numbers lower than elsewhere in the world for the same fuel.

There's a table in the wiki article that shows the equivalence of different systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating

There's two primary ways to measure octane. RON and MON. Most countries pick one- specifically RON. The US and Canada average the two, for some reason.

Yes. USA, Canada and Mexico use a different rating. You need to add about 5 to get the same number on the more common RON scale.

Also rare for the president to be a convicted felon. Yet this monster found a way.

It's almost like El Taco heard about people trying to explain that the president wasn't actually capable of affecting gas prices and went "hold my ~~beer~~ McD's".

I think it's 15% Ethanol. That particular tank was empty.

See comment by Random Stickman, different standard systems give different octane numbers for the same fuel. Edit: according to the Wikipedia chart, the RON of that "Regular Unleaded" would be 91-92. That 87 on the pump is the RON minus the MON, divided by 2 to give the AKI.

The RON of US Premium is 96-98, is that closer to your European number?

Here's the explanatory link they posted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating

As for prices, I live in California where Regular is currently $6.50 near me. Some of the difference from OP's prices is state and local taxes that go towards things that benefit me, some is because our gas has to be formulated to reduce smog. Which also benefits me.