User:Gcastillo16/Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing

Other Factors
Another factor that contributes to gas prices is the Colonial Pipeline that was built in 1960's and was shut down in the United States in May 2021. This pipeline was 5 thousand miles long and ran from Houston, Tx to the New York Harbor. The Pipeline was capable of carrying 2-3 million barrels a day from Texas to New York. Shortly after the pipeline was shut down the gas prices rose to $3 per/gal, which hasn't been seen in the United States since 2015. In early 2021 the gas prices started rising, leading to an average of $3.09 per/gal at the end of 2021. The gas prices average for 2022 is $3.78 per/gal across the United States. Additionally, on March 31, 2022, the Biden Administration. gave the order of giving 1 million barrels of oil a day for the next 6 months from the oil reserves which hold 714 million barrels. These reserves were put into effect to ease the inflation of gas prices in the year 2022.