Denver7’s Allie Jennerjahn reports that gas prices are still climbing, with Colorado drivers trying to stretch their budgets at the pump. According to the story, AAA put the national average at $4.46 per gallon, while Colorado’s regular gas average sat at $4.44 per gallon, just 44 cents below the state’s highest recorded average. Premium was sitting at $5.20 per gallon.
The article features drivers doing what regular people always do when Washington, markets, and world events start raiding the family budget: getting creative, hunting for rewards points, cutting trips where they can, and hoping the next fill-up does not require a co-signer. One driver talked about using King Soopers rewards to knock 50 cents or a dollar off per gallon. Delivery drivers, meanwhile, are getting hammered so hard that DoorDash extended a 10% gas cash-back program through the end of next month.
The Bullet Point Brief
- Colorado’s average regular gas price is $4.44 per gallon, which is only 44 cents below the highest recorded state average. That is not a pump price. That is a hostage note with unleaded attached.
- Premium gas is averaging $5.20 per gallon. Anyone driving a vehicle that requires premium is now basically operating a small refinery with cupholders.
- Drivers are hunting for discounts, rewards points, and strategic fill-ups. Nothing says “thriving economy” like planning your errands around a grocery-store fuel coupon.
- Delivery drivers are especially exposed because they cannot simply stop driving. DoorDash extending a gas relief program tells you all you need to know: the side hustle now needs its own bailout.
- The story is about gas prices, but the real story is what fuel does to everything else. Groceries move by truck. Contractors drive to job sites. Parents commute. Small businesses deliver. Gas prices do not stay at the pump. They ride shotgun through the entire economy.
My Bottom Line
Here is the bottom line: I did not vote for this.
A lot of normal Coloradans voted for Trump because they believed he would lower prices and keep us out of foreign entanglements. That was the deal. Lower the temperature. Lower the costs. Stop lighting money on fire overseas. Quit making the working family pay for geopolitical chest-thumping and policy chaos they did not ask for.
Instead, the normie Coloradan is getting squeezed again. Gas prices hit directly when you fill the tank. Then they hit indirectly when everything that moves by truck gets more expensive. Food, parts, services, construction, deliveries, commuting, small business costs, all of it. Fuel is not some isolated line item. It is the bloodstream of the economy.
And if our skirmish in Iran is helping drive this mess, then somebody in Washington owes the American people a straight answer. Not a speech. Not a slogan. Not another round of cable-news tough-guy theater. A straight answer. Why are families in Colorado paying more to get to work, get groceries, and run their lives?
I did not vote for this. And the question now is how long the people who did vote for the man will tolerate it. They expected cheaper prices and fewer foreign entanglements. Right now, they are getting the old Washington special: expensive gas, international drama, and a lecture about why they should be patient. Patience gets pretty thin when the pump clicks past $70.
Source: Denver 7
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