Agreed, and usually with some political bent, i.e. whenever gas prices go up it's because of whoever the president is at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
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Agreed, and usually with some political bent, i.e. whenever gas prices go up it's because of whoever the president is at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
The marginal utility value of each tank goes down with additional tanks in your inventory. Keeping 1 under the grill and 4 n the shed (adequately ventilated) no problem with nasty looking but certified 100% functional ones..Quote:
Originally Posted by BCMtnHound
If it was just one always in use, I'd always replace it with a brand new one after 10 years..
I just did the math... I have 5 and unless there is a long term power failure to run the genny they just get cycled through the grill.. I go through one about every 6 months.. so at 5 in inventory, they sit in the shed for 2.5 years not used at all until their turn. Ya, not going to replace brand new for 4 of them to sit in the shed for 3 years unused until their turn.. But good to go if power goes out for a couple days..
Brilliant play to get Putin to invade Ukraine to jack up oil prices.
Was it Specter or Dr. Evil behind all this? Law of unintended consequences; Americans decide that maybe it really is time to start to transition away from fossil fuels cause its cheaper. Nothing more complicated than that.
I just did the math for my skiing five days per week
Outback
384 miles per week
At 29mpg I burn 13.24 gal
Price has gone up $0.60 per gal in Central OR since Putin began thIs debacle, about half of which occurred between 0700 and 1430 PST last Friday
Extra cost = $8 per week.
I’ll stop drinking.
Small price to pay if it changes this
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^^^^ Agree 100% with the fuck them just suck it up and be more thrifty here... But as for the maths... we haven't stopped importing any Russian gas or oil yet.. According to this Forbes article, Russian gas is 20% of all imports..
It's probably going up at least another dollar if/when se stop buying it and supply goes down 20%..
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrobe...h=e481ec8aae81
I'm gonna ride my bike a LOT and keep working from home a lot even though the office actually opened this week.. If I don't need to transport anything big and it's not pouring down rain I'm riding the bike instead of driving the car..
Yup ^^ its cheaper to just buy a brand new 20lb-er so i just take it out to leroy at that redneck gas station for a refill and maybe visit the telkwa mall, AKA the garbage dumpQuote:
Originally Posted by BCMtnHound
my buddy johnny the quintessential dirt bag figured out that if a cylinder is out of date people don't take it home they just leave it out at the refilling outlet so the unrefillable by law cylinders will often still have propane in them so he just shakes a few of the dozens sitting out there and takes a couple home to run his BBQ
same guy would get free paint at the telkwa mall
the dirtbag lifestyle eventualy caught up with him and he died of cancer, get the scope kids
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Historical context. Psychologically, people respond when crude goes way over $100….
US is banning Russia oil, expect markets to shit their pants.
It is going to be a wild ride but fucking finally.
Nothing compared to banning refined gas.. That's 20% of all imports... Crude oil is only 3.5%.Quote:
Originally Posted by mud
As for the economics... the best way to reduce the impact and keep prices from getting WAY higher is to reduce demand and buy less gas.. Ride your bikes, take the smaller vehicles when possible, work remotely as much as possible.. That way people who have no choice but to pay at the pump get a little help from folks with more options..
Yup that’s why I posted the graph. Crude could go above $160, so I thought historical context would be useful.Quote:
Originally Posted by mud
And yes this is our WWII moment where our consumerist society can make choices that help the war effort. Fuck pootin.
As if anything can come between us consumers and their “need” for huge pedestrian killing gas guzzling rigsQuote:
Originally Posted by frorider
You keep bringing up that 20 or 21% figure but it's 20% of gas imports, and gas imports are a small fraction of US gas consumption - I haven't been able to find that number (have at it, it's not easy to find) but the DOE says the US produces "almost all" of the gas consumed in the country. So it's 20% (or 21%) of a relatively small number.Quote:
Originally Posted by SumJongGuy
Average commuter bike speed = 12-18 mph
Average car consumption = 25mpg
1.5 to 2 hours of riding to save one gallon!
Go get em tiger!
At some point people just make a choice to be fucking idiots, don’t they? They park their fat ass in the burbs, gorge propaganda, and check the fuck out. Talk about a country where absolute morons aren’t starving to deathQuote:
Originally Posted by sirbumpsalot
So this is the part where the boomers who financed 20 years of war with millennial and genX lives and trillions of dollars in debt and nary a peep about sacrifice seriously try to tell us it’s time for national sacrifice?
(/snark)
Here ya go. Agreed it's a bigger % of a smaller %..Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
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The United States received more of its imported gasoline from Russia in 2021 than from any other country, at 21%
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrobe...h=35481e64aae8
My bike is gas powered too but gets 100+ MPG tiger...Quote:
Originally Posted by sirbumpsalot
Can anyone find what US gasoline consumption/year and how much of that is imported? That might help calm SJG and give him some perspective.
SJG-I guarantee that we do not import 20% of our yearly gasoline consumption from Russia.
i been reading the USA is not importing so much oil cuz they can frack almost everything they need now days, true or not ?
if you gots good weather for more than less of the year one of them e-bikes made from chinesium are 2-3 K and would save the end loser a lot of money
Just a couple of years ago we were taking about how RUS and OPEC were intentionally producing enough to hold crude prices at the level where it suppressed US domestic fracking, which needs what ~$90/barrel or something? So in theory, we should start to see more US production come on line.
Apparently the markets are viewing this information positively...Quote:
Originally Posted by mud
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I filled the Volvo yesterday with alcohol free regular for $5.09 a gallon, there was no Premium or mid grade, and none available from the distributor. Price for regular at most places in the morning were about $4.15 if you paid cash (10 cents more for card) , Surprisingly it was$4.50 at the reservation. By the afternoon most places had raised their prices by 15 cents. I checked the prices when I got home and it was $4.79 for regular. I have to fill the truck, it was $180 the last time, I'm not looking forward to doing it today.
F150. Uphill, snowstorm, headwinds...perfect storm for bad fuel economy. Usually closer to 18 on the highway, but that 12mpg day really hurt when I filled up across the border in Canada.Quote:
Originally Posted by MontuckyFried
" please god let there be another oil boom, I promise not to fuck it up this time "
a bumper sticker from Alberta ^^ several oil booms ago
they must have been praying, I wonder how they fuck it up this time ?
Still $3.56/g at the local Costco... guess I should prolly fill up.
Diesel this weekend in East Tennessee on 3/4/2022 was $3.99-$4.09; today, 3/8/2022, $4.39-$4.59.
Around town 15, highway 19-22 for a 2500 Silverado Duramax ZR1. I think the High Country was geared differently, as I had significantly better gas mileage.
Watching Gas Buddy app as I drive across Idaho. Stations whose prices haven’t updated since yesterday are often showing 30-40cents cheaper than now. You know they didn’t all get their bulk tanks filled in the last 24 hours so it’s just price gouging
$6.19 for regular here in truckee
$6.39 for diesel
I’ll fill my 400hp m5 e39 at any price.
It makes my smile.
If you think thats price gouging...don't even think about going inside the attached mini-mart for a bag of chips or coke!Quote:
Originally Posted by Falcon3
What about coffee?? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sirbumpsalot
It's actually a lot lower than 7% as 2020-21 was an aberration. We imported Urals over the last year to offset the lower GoM Mars that was shut in from hurricanes. From 2014 to 2020 we imported 0 barrels of Russian crude.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
all the companies put their price up at the pumps so the price is the price
the world price of coffee is pretty low right now
Who knew? Was wondering why when I offered $3.50/gal the guy refused.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Probably because you didn’t include the 9/10
Waitsfield VT about an hour ago, no guarantee it hasn't already gone up again.
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$5.40 an hour ago in SeaTac
This station isn't even bothering to put up a price
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