vtsnowedin wrote:I paid $2.23 a gallon today on the Vermont New Hampshire border down about $0.50 from where it was three weeks ago. The little guy that still has a job to commute to is getting a break.
Tanada wrote:South Toledo today paid $1.179/gallon. Lowest I have seen since the big price crash winter 2008-09!
Newfie wrote:Could not find a better thread than here.
Look at the gas price from yesterday.
What the hell does that say about where we are?
Newfie wrote:What the hell does that say about where we are?
AdamB wrote:more than a little irrelevant to Joe?
mousepad wrote:AdamB wrote:more than a little irrelevant to Joe?
As long as gas prices are low all is well for you in the world?
mousepad wrote:Man, you're a simpleton.
vtsnowedin wrote:Even if you are an EV owner charging your EV off your own solar panels the price of gas and diesel will effect your personnel economy for decades to come.
vtsnowedin wrote:Every job opportunity, every profit margin, every product you need and buy will have it's value determined by the price and availability of fossil fuels.
vtsnowedin wrote: While you can choose to be an early adopter the entire economy is fossil fuel dependent and can only covert at the rate that EVs and electric machinery are built to replace ICE powered units. Perhaps in twenty years the price of gas will not matter to the average person but in the meantime it will really matter to you and everybody else.
vtsnowedin wrote:While the peak oil scare moved a few people away from fossil fuels and started the advance of alternatives including EVs those are still a small fraction of our economy.
vtsnowedin wrote: During the scare high prices did depress the economy and when "high prices cured high prices" the economy gained back what was lost.
vtsnowedin wrote: As to me being old school I have laid down my $100 for a cyber truck so am not exactly a Luddite.
AdamB wrote:I coughed up $25G 5 years ago or more now. 135K on it now. Doesn't sound to me like you've got much skin in the game. I'm now playing a rear guard action against the wife and her raging Tesla desire, and trying to talk the daughter in her new found professional wealth to not go for the MustangE without a dedicated charging port at her apartment complex.
vtsnowedin wrote: I came across an old calculator languishing in a junk draw the other day. It is a Texas instruments TI-30Xa which was quite the unit in it's day. It came on and still does more math then I remember how to do.
vtsnowedin wrote: At present the nearest Tesla super charge station is eighteen miles away and I don't think that was there six months ago.
I do not mind not being first in line.
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