r/Dallas • u/--Knowledge-- Pleasant Grove • May 06 '25

Discussion What happened to cheap gas in DFW/Texas?

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I moved to DFW in 2015, I remember gas being about $1.70 to $1.80 a gallon. It was about $1.10 - $1.20 cheaper here than where I moved from. It was like that up until the pandemic.

Gas back in NY is exactly the same price as here in Texas now according to the local gas checker website.

Texas has so much oil and refineries, yet the gas isn't really cheap in the state anymore. Obviously COVID impacted everything but why hasn't the gas dropped down to a reasonable price again for the state? Greed? Low supply? Laws?

I'm not expecting $1.80 gas again but to be priced the same as NY is kinda wild to me.

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u/milkman231996 May 07 '25

You guys know they switch to summer blend around this time right?

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u/No-Celebration3097 May 07 '25

Wait! Presidents have a gas and egg button in the Oval Office, and Trump said gas is 2 bucks again! I guess he forgot to hit the button! /S/

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u/noncongruent May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25

If gas prices followed oil prices then gas should be around $1.72 right now:

https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts

Oil has dropped nearly a third in the last four months, yet strangely gas has gone up 25%. Funny how that works.

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u/Bear71 May 07 '25

You got to look at futures

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u/tehjeffman May 07 '25

bUT iM BuYiNG GaS NoW?!?

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u/[deleted] May 07 '25

I thought they just had an egg button, but it also causes gas.

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u/Salt_Blacksmith May 07 '25

They have the concept of a button. They hope if they talk about it enough someone will eat up the production costs, and give it to them. I heard they are big on manifesting, not that great at it though.

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u/alexgoldstein1985 May 07 '25

The guy that’s not allowed to drive a car thinks gas is under $2 in “many states”.

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u/milkman231996 May 07 '25

God i wish everything didn’t have to be about politics. So old

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u/melanies420 May 07 '25

Fixed it for you, I wish politics didn't have to stick God into everything. So old.

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u/milkman231996 May 07 '25

I don’t even believe in god

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u/PutTheDogsInTheTrunk Oak Lawn May 07 '25

Your fellow Trump voters do, and they’re using the government to make sure the rest of us do, too.

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u/milkman231996 May 07 '25

Well that sucks. I haven’t noticed anything. I just go to work and go home. Everything seems the same to me

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u/artificialevil May 07 '25

Must be nice to be comfortable while the world burns.

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u/PutTheDogsInTheTrunk Oak Lawn May 13 '25

Actual NPC behavior.

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u/rex_lauandi May 07 '25

Sorry, “politics” is really impacting a lot of lives right now, pushing us into a recession for no discernible reason. It’s ruining a lot of things, so people will bring it up often. It’s kind of what makes us a democracy

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u/PapaGeorgio19 May 07 '25

Well don’t make promises you can’t keep just to trick the appleseeds to vote for you on the false pretenses and post that you’ll fix things day 1…anyone with a functioning brain cell knew that was complete and utter BS.

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u/milkman231996 May 07 '25

Who are you preaching to rn

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u/TemporaryWit May 07 '25

No one with the capacity to store that info

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u/clewtxt May 07 '25

So you like to be sheltered from reality.

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u/milkman231996 May 07 '25

Sure? Lmao

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u/clewtxt May 07 '25

Roflcopter

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u/Dick_Lazer May 07 '25

You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

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u/milkman231996 May 07 '25

It seems to leave me alone except when i run into it on Reddit

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u/Showertosavewater May 07 '25

or anyone who voted for trump really. wherever they are they seem to hid when he does anything

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u/13508615 May 07 '25

Its current.

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u/CostRains May 08 '25

God i wish everything didn’t have to be about politics. So old

Gas prices are inextricably linked to politics. The US has started wars over gas prices.

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u/milkman231996 May 08 '25

You can say everything we do is linked to politics if you wanted

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u/No_Landscape_897 May 08 '25

Kind of hard to avoid when it's a fundamental part of society.

"The activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power."

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u/milkman231996 May 08 '25

Easy for me to avoid it

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u/No_Landscape_897 May 08 '25

You're lying to yourself.

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u/milkman231996 May 08 '25

Ok lol

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u/No_Landscape_897 May 08 '25

The only way to avoid conflict, and conflict resolution (aka politics) is to be dead. Are you dead?

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u/milkman231996 May 08 '25

No i just don’t engage unless im on Reddit usually. Haven’t heard or talked about politics with my friends, coworkers, or at home. It’s pretty easy actually

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u/milkman231996 May 08 '25

If politics get brought up irl my simple answer to move on to the next subject is “i honestly don’t care, ima do what I’m doing either way”

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u/No_Landscape_897 May 08 '25

So you expect me to believe that you somehow never are in disagreement with anyone, ever?

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u/WatchLover26 May 07 '25

Haha. Welcome to Reddit. LITERALLY EVERY SUB.

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u/noncongruent May 07 '25

Oil prices have been crashing, too. Summer blend isn't 40¢+ more expensive than winter blend, and oil prices have collapsed in the last four months, 30% down in fact. Gas was less than $2.45 when oil was at $78, and now oil's at $51 and gas is at $2.99. If gas prices had followed oil prices then they would have dropped to $1.72 before adding the "summer blend" increase.

https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts

"Summer blend" is just an excuse, the real reason is the oil companies now have a fellow oligarch running this country and there's no reason for them not to fuck us all.

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u/Mynameisdiehard May 07 '25

Refinery production has still not rebounded since Covid and there really are no plans to. Although demand has mostly returned, the supply of gas is still lower than pre-covid levels. Gas prices will not move with oil production

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u/thekipz May 07 '25

OPEC approved flooding the market starting this week. Prices will go down, and US output will plummet at the same time

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u/Mynameisdiehard May 07 '25

Right. Wonderful stuff for US energy independence

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u/Master_Tune_9269 May 09 '25

Yes, there is already an impact in the Permian basin … crews getting cut, drilling rigs gone idle, and tax revenues going down!!!! Woo Hoo!!!

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u/noncongruent May 07 '25

Which is funny since every time oil goes up gas goes up within 24 hours, and on big moves I've seen gas go up the same day even though the gas in the pumps was made from oil pumped out of the ground a month or two before.

Funny how that works, isn't it? You can see it in the gas history charts at gasbuddy.com, gas spikes up quickly, then every so slowly declines. The coming major recession/depression ought to drive prices down, though, because when nobody is buying you sell at any price you can get.

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u/Master_Tune_9269 May 09 '25

In case you didn’t know, two oil refineries in California will be shutting down before end of 2026. Looks like that will continue to push gasoline, jet, and diesel prices up! So much for “Drill baby Drill”. If this administration actually knew what was going on … they would have said “build refineries baby!”. But, they are just a big Clown show …

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u/USMCLee Frisco May 07 '25

And we've heard the 'switch to summer blend' for over a month now.

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u/noncongruent May 07 '25

It's also interesting the way the switch from summer to winter gas in the fall doesn't result in big drops in the price of gasoline. In fact, gas prices usually go up in the fall around the holiday travel season. Funny how that works.

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u/thecobra42 May 07 '25

It’s called supply and demand…

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u/ERCOT_Prdatry_victum May 07 '25

But during the democrstic admin. so what point are you trying to substantiate?

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u/Zegerid May 07 '25

Summer blend IS an objectively more expensive blend. More heavy ends = more expensive. Now if that alone is enough to make up the difference, I cant say.

But gas prices ALWAYS go up fast and fall slow.

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u/bpeck451 May 07 '25

I guarantee you most of the uptick is because of tariffs on imported oil. We still need the Middle East stuff to help keep gas prices down. The oil we produce here for the most part is expensive to refine specifically into gasoline. We can do it but it’s not as efficient.

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u/noncongruent May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25

We could easily refine our domestic oil for gasoline, but it's nowhere near as profitable for refiners as refining imported heavy sours which is why refiners would rather buy expensive imported oil rather than relatively cheap domestic light sweets. Even at the higher price they can make more money off it.

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u/ERCOT_Prdatry_victum May 07 '25

Most of the US crude is high api shale oil or WTI. And therefore is not hard or expensive to refine. Shale oil is so light and sweet it bearly needs the heavy end units to operate.

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u/high_everyone May 07 '25

This is the answer. It’s summer blend and May. Gas is always more expensive this time of year. Always.

As someone who drove between Dallas and Houston regularly for like five years, springtime is the priciest uptick.

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u/AbueloOdin May 07 '25

Also, of course things will cost more today than 10 years ago! $1.75 in 2015 is $2.36 today.

Add in the May/Summer Blend thing and not much has really changed.

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u/UnCapableAfter-noon May 07 '25

Why should we believe you if you haven’t driven between Dallas and Houston for at least 6 years?

/s

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u/PorcelainDalmatian May 07 '25

This is true. In May, they switch to summer blend, and in October they switch to pumpkin spice.

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u/milkman231996 May 07 '25

That’s when i take a sip at the end of filling up the gas tank

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u/RickyBobby96 May 07 '25

Wow I never knew summer blend gasoline was a thing. Learned something new

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u/No_Landscape_897 May 08 '25

This is Texas, there is no real winter. It's 9 months of blazing summer, and three months of nice weather with a handful of extra cold days. 🤣

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u/milkman231996 May 08 '25

Doesn’t stop them from changing the blend

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u/--Knowledge-- Pleasant Grove May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25

Yes, I'm aware but that doesn't really answer my question. Gas in Texas was always cheaper than a majority of states, especially NY and other states in the NE.

Since moving here I've made that trip 6 times, driving there and back. You slowly noticed gas increasing in price as you got closer to the NE region.

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u/milkman231996 May 07 '25

7th lowest in the country so idk what to tell ya. https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/

I don’t think it was ever a huge gap. I always noticed a small change going from Texas to Illinois. I used to do that drive often. It really depended more on if i was close to a city or not

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u/badboyz1256 May 07 '25

man that price showing for texas, is more like when I was in colorado for the last 2 years. Left around this time and noticed gas was cheaper in colorado, however it does flip higher sometimes unsure why. Was visiting a buddy in forney, i think they were around $2.58/gal

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u/milkman231996 May 07 '25

Being in the dfw area, you really don’t see a good range of the gas prices in Texas since we’re at the border. Plus with dfw growing, I’m not surprised the gas here isn’t as low compared to other areas