Gas Prices Are Going to Go Up

And the tundra is that...

You're such a conformist. When was the last time you carried anything?

Me personally, last weekend when I bought pine needles for the vegetable garden. The Wife uses it every Thursday to pick up food from local grocery stores for for a food bank. Every time I or the Wife goes to TN for farm business (about once or twice every other month), it hauls scrap metal for recycling, fallen trees and limbs to burn piles, and lesser vehicles that have gotten stuck in the mud. Once we move to the farm, hopefully the end of this year or the beginning of the next, We'll be using it a lot more.

Conform damnit.

Steve wants into that shower SO fucking bad.

Interesting article on the EV mileage issue. Nothing earth shattering, but does provide some context about where things are heading when it comes to EV mileage.

I think you're looking at it wrong.

95% of the miles put on cars is commuting less than 30 miles and running errands.

At night and at work they sit for hours.

This fits the profile perfectly for cheap EVs.

Don't buy a car to address the 5%. Instead use an alternative when needed.

Unless you're a traveling salesperson.

I'm happy having one car for fits all. I'm old and set in my ways. I'm sure a lot of people who own electrics are doing exactly that.

Interestingly, I did this exact same math while shopping for my next car.

I was tempted by the Corolla Cross, largely because I occasionally get stuck in my driveway in the winter when I misjudge how much snow I can just roll over, and partly because I do occasionally want to haul big things.

Then I realized that for the extra $1,000 a year it would have cost over the Corolla sedan, I can both pay somebody to snowblow my driveway every time it snows and rent a larger vehicle on the rare occasions that I need one.

Just go to one of the hole in the wall, off brand gas stations further down El Camino and Marconi. You'll save like 20 cents per gallon and only have like a 25% chance of being stabbed. My wife swears by them.

As someone who doesn't drive, let me just say that I'm thrilled how high fuel prices will speed up the transition to renewables.

It was less than $4 here the other day. No idea if it spiked. We fill up about once a month.

There's talk and pressure for a gas stimulus, California's governor is proposing $400 per vehicle, maximum of two vehicles. Other proposals would work out $100 per month, with and extra $100 per child, with a max of $300 per month, for any month where the gas price exceeds a national average over $4 per month.

Fucking hell. Maybe they should walk.

Let us not give money to the oil companies. There is no new technology going to be produced by them that will cure our addiction to oil. Do not give any stimulus to oil at all. If you are going to do something to help dump all that money into hydrogen. Hydrogen is my preferred choice, but if not that do electric car infrastructure. The oil companies are gouging, and paying for more gas is only more wealth distribution towards them. Make more mass transit. Make more ability to work from home. Do anything but pay the higher prices through government funds. They are already getting subsidies.

They have record profits. I am saying use emergency powers to cap prices and stop the gouging. The oil companies can give some back from their decades of record breaking profits. Maybe the oil companies could go to Putin and tell him to knock his shit off.