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John Pritchett: Pumped Up

The average price of unleaded gas in Hawaii is fast approaching $5 a gallon. AAA attributed the jump to the conflict in Ukraine, but there are other factors, too.

By John Pritchett

March 13, 2022 · 1 min read

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John Pritchett

John Pritchett is an award-winning cartoonist. He has created artwork in Hawaii for decades, including 20 years at the Honolulu Weekly. See his portfolio on the web at: pritchettcartoons.com. Opinions are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Civil Beat’s views.

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About the Author

John Pritchett

John Pritchett is an award-winning cartoonist. He has created artwork in Hawaii for decades, including 20 years at the Honolulu Weekly. See his portfolio on the web at: pritchettcartoons.com. Opinions are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Civil Beat’s views.

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I have complete and total faith in our local and national leadership to come up with appropriate solutions that will help everyday working people who are already struggling under the combined weight of so many unfortunate coincidences.

Intelligentsia · 2 months ago

by burning "dirty" oil, i think we come out with the same amount of green house gasses. distilling heavy oil yields less higher volatile distillates and distillates the burn less completely. even with an electric vehicle, the electric energy is generated by burning the "dirty" distillates. maybe not same-same but more "dirty"?

dork · 2 months ago

The background should have had pipeline pieces that were both being dismantled and already being trucked away labeled Keystone. On day one, our prez decided to stop being energy independent and now the pipeline has been chopped up and bought. No relief there, even if we wanted.Be aware folks of these excuses about the "permits". Look more into it and you will see that if you just follow the monies, the democrat party is experiencing windfalls. Nobody reports on it.

Ranger_MC · 2 months ago

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