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  Maybe it holds some true in US, but in Poland there are some "corrections" after spikes but never to levels from before. So gasoline prices for the last 20 is constant    rise with these small corrections mentioned earlier. Same goes for electricity and gas. That's why I'm so negative about it
context: Wasn't it supposed to be most expensive in winter when supplies are scarce? >
  
  It's been a milder winter (Spain is at around 7 degrees above the norm), countries prepared for the winter before it hit and consumption was reduced to preserve gas reserves.  
  So yes; all of that was correctly predicted and therefore measures were taken to stop the worst possible outcome, plus we've been lucky so far in having warmer temperatures.  
  It's a bit like preparing for a big storm, and when it hits it doesn't feel as bad precisely because you're prepared for it. If you don't do anything and just wait for it outside then of course it would be a lot worse >
  
  People are weird about prevention.
  Same thing happened with Y2K. Hundreds of hours of work, work and work... got rewarded with snide comments and jokes when the greatest succes possible happened:
  Nothing, because the problems... got fixed preemptively. >
  
  2038* is gonna be a whole another story >
  
  You mean 2038 >
  
  What is supposed to happen in 2038? >
  
  The 32-bit integer limit for keeping time will be reached and, if I'm not mistaken, time on most 32-bit systems will show the time as 1970-01-01. It's why many systems are slowly beginning to push for mandatory 64-bit upgrades now.
  Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this but I think I got the general idea right. >
  
  The 2038 problem will actually overflow to be displayed as 1901-12-13, since this particular overflow is for a signed 32-bit number (stores numbers between -2^31 and 2^31 - 1 ), and won't overflow to 0.
  Unsigned 32 bit time won't overflow until year 2106), but any modern programs should be using 64 bit time, which can handle billions of years. >
  
  As a time traveller from the apocalypse-ridden times of 2107, I can assure you that the complete switch to 64bit took longer than expected. >
  
  As a time traveler from the utopian 300,000,000,000AD era, where the only problem is that you guys decided to switch to 64-bit, I can assure you that you should be going for 128-bit, which can handle trillions of years >
  
  Pre-Russian invasion would be a better headline >
  
  Pretty much every war starts with an invasion. >
  
  I think they just meant before the full Feb invasion. Technically the actual war has been happening since 2014 >
  
  Thanks Brandon! >
  
  Wait, where did all those stickers go at the gas pumps??? >
  
  It's about natural gas, not petrol. >
  
  I don't understand why Americans call it gas. It's a liquid >
  
  Short for gasoline >
  
  Well that makes sense >
  
  Where are those ads from Russia again that we will freeze to dead and eating our own dogs? >
  
  The price is so low because everyone in Europe froze to death already, so there's no one to buy the gas >
  
  Can confirm. Am frozen dead >
  
  Same. Completely frozen and dead here at 10 degrees Celsius. If only we listened to Gazprom’s commercial :( >
  
  Aaaaaaand I strongly suspect all the profiteering shady energy companies will still rake in record profits. Disgusting. >
  
  Well of course they will, especially now, as any price drops will gradually start next year if at all. Core human needs like food/water/electricity/heating need to be more closely regulated by the government to ensure consumers aren't getting completely fucked, unless they want a recession. >
  
  Funny how price increases get passed along to the customer with lightning speed but price decreases take absolute ages to get through, if they ever do. Funny how that works. >
  
  Funny how my gas rate is still much higher then it was this time last year >
  
  Not really that surprising. Your supplier would have hedged its exposure to market volatility by buying gas futures well in advance, so your rate reflects a mixture of year-ahead, quarter-ahead, month-ahead etc prices. Obviously, a lot of those futures would have been priced significantly higher than today's spot price. It will take a long time of sustained fall in prices for this to be reflected in consumer pricing. >
  
  Yeah, but it will never go down even if gas price will remain low. >
  
  people keep saying this, but throughout my life I have continually seen both gas at the pump and natural gas become cheaper over time after spikes.  Now I am an American which certainly has more access to natural gas (which has been super cheap for us for a long time), yet after spikes it always goes lower.  In many cases lower than before.  It just doesn't happen as quickly as people would like while increases seem to happen overnight.  The overnight changes are really the greedy part because they will be on cheaper contracts but know prices are spiking so they up their prices to consumers right away.  The lowering of prices take time because many will be taking a loss on their contracts if they change right away so it takes time for it to happen.