Below is the 2023 forecast for fuel prices.
Highlights from GasBuddy’s 2023 Fuel Outlook:
The national average price of gas could cool early in the year as demand remains seasonally weak, followed by a rise that starts in late winter, bringing prices to the $4 per gallon range in time for summer. Barring unexpected challenges, prices in 2023 should return to normal seasonal fluctuations, rising in the spring, and dropping after Labor Day into the fall.
Though most major U.S. cities will see prices top around $4 per gallon, areas of California like San Francisco and Los Angeles could again experience near $7 gas prices in the summer of 2023 if refineries struggle under mandates of unique formulations of gasoline.
Americans will spend an estimated $470.8 billion on gasoline in 2023, down $55 billion from 2022. The estimated yearly household spend on gasoline will also fall by $277 to $2,471.
“2023 is not going to be a cakewalk for motorists. It could be expensive,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. “The national average could reach $4 per gallon as early as May – and that’s something that could last through much of the summer driving season. Curveballs are coming from every direction. Extreme amounts of volatility remain possible but should become slightly more muted in the year ahead. I don’t think we’ve ever seen such an amount of volatility as we saw this year, and that will be a trend that likely continues to lead to wider uncertainty over fuel prices going into 2023.”
The highest gasoline prices are forecast to be seen in June, with an estimated peak of up to $4.19 per gallon on average. Diesel prices are forecast to average $4.12 in 2023, beginning the year at their highest level and then rebounding as high as $4.30 per gallon in June.
My Brother's take on this:
I always get confused when wipers start having conniptions over climate change and citing that this was the hottest/coldest day in history expecting the rest of the sane world to flog itself with the same fervor as they do! I get it that summer is hot and winter is cold, but here are some facts:
The coldest temperature recorded in the contiguous U.S. is 70 degrees below zero, measured at Rogers Pass, Montana, on Jan. 20, 1954. It is no surprise that the hottest temperatures in the U.S. have been recorded in the Desert Southwest. The highest temperature recorded in California, 134 degrees, is also the current hottest air temperature on record on Earth and was measured in Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913.
How is it possible that these temperatures were noted so long before climate change became an issue? The United States was still using lead in gasoline when these data were recorded, and all the so-called fixes to our fuels, which have made them the cleanest on the planet, are now unacceptable while the rest of the planet pollutes. How can you tell it's a fraud? Well, simply put, using food (corn) for fuel is accepted, while so many people are starving around the world, and is considered the righteous thing to do, as long as the right people are making money!
So what does this mean? Well, it means that wipes like the Climate Czar John "The Tiger Of Vietnam" Kerry, "China Joe" Biden and all the little minions in full collaboration to make this happen are lying rat-bastards. First, they perverted the education system to dumb the children down so they would be obedient drones, then they fed them nonsense, hatred, and immorality. Second, they brainwashed the drones into believing the end of humankind is at hand because of climate change. Finally, they stopped fooling around and simply started demanding obedience and tolerance so they could cash in on the fool's errand folly they perpetuated and sold to the fools they created. It has all been a giant scam, a swindle of the people they expect to pay for and live with while they (the elites) continue with business as usual. They do the same thing with our military: They create wars so they can cash in on the materials used in the war, and like climate change (which they never surrender a thing for), they never fight the wars they create.
100% agree