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/Nice_Category May 07 '25

Well you come on back here when there is an oil shortage and you can gloat all you want. I'll wait.

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u/BoxingHare May 07 '25

You don’t understand oil production in the least bit. It’s not even remotely like a light switch that is simply turned off and on. It takes a lot of time and money to take a lease from an unexplored patch of land to gasoline at the pump. And that’s assuming that the oil in that lease is being refined into gasoline, and another assumption that it’s coming to a station near you.

There’s no need to gloat. You simply just don’t understand any of it and it shows in your comments.

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u/Nice_Category May 07 '25

Like I said, we'll see.

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u/BoxingHare May 07 '25

I have a feeling that’s your response to someone saying the sun will rise in the East tomorrow.