Gas prices on May 19, 2022 at BP, located 31-05 Queens Blvd. (Photo by Michael Dorgan, Queens Post)
May 19, 2022 By Michael Dorgan
The average price for a gallon of regular gas broke the $5 mark in Queens today—for the first time ever.
The pain at the pump for Queens drivers was evident this morning at the BP station on Queens Boulevard in Long Island City where it was $5.03 for a gallon of regular gas.
“It’s a lot of money. It costs me $70 to fill my tank and I use regular,” said Chris Paredes, who lives in Brooklyn. “It hurts but what can I do, it’s getting hard out here.”
The average price for regular gas in New York City is now $5.02 a gallon—an all-time high–according to AAA. The average in Queens is $5.02 a gallon, Staten Island $4.99, the Bronx $4.98, Brooklyn $5.01 and Manhattan $5.35.
The cost of premium and diesel is even more brutal across New York City, with the average for premium being $5.56 a gallon and $6.77 for diesel.
Prices in New York City (source: AAA)
Gas prices for a gallon of regular surpassed $4 in every state for the first time Tuesday, according to AAA. The price of a gallon of regular averaged $4.91 across New York State today, higher than the national average of $4.59.
But analysts are saying that the average prices across the nation could surpass $6 per gallon.
“With expectations of strong driving demand … U.S. retail prices could surge by August to a $6.20/gal national average,” wrote Natasha Kaneva, head of commodities research at JPMorgan, in a report released to investors Tuesday.
For drivers in Queens this does not bode well—particularly for Uber drivers.
Michael Heralall, an Uber driver who lives in South Richmond Hill, said the surge in gas prices is making it tough for him to make a living.
“It makes me feel like I don’t want to go to work,” Heralall said at the BP station in Long Island City this morning. “It’s very, very expensive—before I used to pay $2.69, now I pay more than $5 — it’s a lot of money.”
“I’m filling up gas and I haven’t got a ride yet,” said Heralall, who regularly transports passengers to and from J.F.K. Airport.
The price of crude oil is about $110 a barrel, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine among the contributors to the spike.
“The high cost of oil, the key ingredient in gasoline, is driving these high pump prices,” said a AAA spokesperson on Monday.
Oner Dikmen, an Uber SUV driver, who drove into the BP station this morning said: “It’s killing us…. I’m spending $110-$120 to fill my car and before it was $75.”
“I’m spending $160 more a week so that means I have to work at least two or three hours more per day, which means I’m going to have to sacrifice the time I have at home.”
“That’s $500 a month so that’s not easy money to make, its making it hard to survive.”
Dikmen said he has switched from super unleaded to regular to tackle the price hike.
“The quality of the gas is going to affect the long-term maintenance of the car, engine transmission, everything.’
“I have to take [that risk] because I have to make money.”
Gas prices at Mobil, located at 40-40 Crescent St. (Photo by Michael Dorgan, Queens Post)
Speedway Gas station on Hillside Avenue in Queens Village taken on May 19, 2022 (Photo: Queens Post)
BP Gas station on Hillside Avenue in Queens Village taken on May 19, 2022 (Photo: Queens Post)
Mobil Gas station on Hillside Avenue in Queens Village taken on May 19, 2022 (Photo: Queens Post)
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Typical Woke Liberal Democratic Socialist method If you do not agree with them call them names or Racists.. I never said Biden controlled gas markets all over the world .Biden did not have to cut the Keystone CL pipeline from Canada or suspend oil and gas drilling leases tonmake us energy independent until green infrastructure was in place. Biden made us dependentnon O.P.E.C
again as we used to. Mot the brst way to go Socialist Joe. What gpod will electric vats be when it will cost a fortune to charge them.? Thete were riots in Europe over energy procrs for going green when mot ready. We do not want that hete do we?
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Here you go playing the straight-out-of-central-casing right-wing boomer nut-job. You go running your mouth about something you heard on Fox News, get called out for being wrong and then go play the victim about how you got called a name. All with God-awful spelling by the way. The rest of us can manage to throw a post together with minimal typos. What makes you so incompetent at doing the same?
Also, spoiler alert, your Keystone pipe dream wouldn’t guarantee we’d be in a better spot than we are. The Canadian tar sands oil that would be pumped through it are absolute garbage that would most likely be exported.
Gas prices are slightly elevated globally. Not to the percentage increase we are experiencing in the U.S. And on a very separate note, things like baby formula and other food essentials are in very short supply in the U.S. So much so that Europe is shipping us metric tons of formula because sleepy Joe has no other solution….like making it domestically as we always have. Do your research before you speak.
Spoken like a true pissed-off-white-trash conservative who has zero clue how energy markets work. Gas prices are up all over the world; does that mean Biden single-handedly controls fuel prices worldwide?
Gas prices are slightly elevated globally. Not to the percentage increase we are experiencing in the U.S. And on a very separate note, things like baby formula and other food essentials are in very short supply in the U.S. So much so that Europe is shipping us metric tons of formula because sleepy Joe has no other solution….like making it domestically as we always have. Do your research before you speak.
“Slightly” my ass. Gas in the UK is up 13.8% since February 14th. That’s up less than the US, but that’s hardly slightly. Do your research before you speak.
Also, why are you bringing baby formula into a conversation about gas prices? Are you suggesting that babies should drink gas instead of formula?
ThankSocialist Joe Biden and his war on fossil fuels. Even before Putin invaded Ukraine gas was going up. Our Electric bills will be going up 11-12 % acvording to con ed . Bidens green new dral means hundreds of millions innnew infrastructure needed theu said.
It’s too bad gas is now over $5 a gallon…but at least we don’t have mean tweets!!!
Wait are you talking about the twice impeached ex President that incited a violent attack on the Capitol?