Gas here might cost an arm and a leg ...
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... but at least I got a BOOB in return. (Sorry, I know.)
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@RiceRocketeer ehh it's less than $6, sounds like cheap gas to me in these times! Yesterday I saw a gas station that showed €2,45 per litre which converting to freedom units is somewhere around $10 per gallon. That's insane, no wonder these Europeans don't like driving much. At around $6.10 per gallon of 91 that I paid last week at home, it was over $70 for a tank versus the usual $50 over the past year.
I took a train halfway across the country and thought it was kinda pricey at €17 euros each way but certainly far cheaper than driving would have been! And what would have normally been about an hour of driving or an hour on the slower, cheaper train took just 25 minutes each way.
'01 Mazda Miata, '06 Subaru STi, '22 Salsa Timberjack, '17 Schwinn Fastback
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@Wrong-Wheel-Drive True, but the Europeans have topless beaches, so at least they get more 8008 to compensate.
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@Wrong-Wheel-Drive wrote:
I took a train halfway across the country and thought it was kinda pricey at €17 euros each way but certainly far cheaper than driving would have been! And what would have normally been about an hour of driving or an hour on the slower, cheaper train took just 25 minutes each way.
One method for changing our approach to transportation is to make it too expensive to use personal transportation like automobiles. Various proposals have been put forward, from increasing the price of parking, to increasing the cost of registration/taxes, to increasing the price of fuel. I think it will be the oil and gas companies that drive us toward the last option. Given the ready availability of communication technologies allowing so many people to work from home, increasing the cost of fuel is just another incentive to stay home. The oil and gas companies are just shooting themselves in the foot.
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@BicycleBuck only issue in much of the US is lack of alternatives to driving. It just negatively impacts the poor to make driving more expensive.
'01 Mazda Miata, '06 Subaru STi, '22 Salsa Timberjack, '17 Schwinn Fastback
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@Wrong-Wheel-Drive said in Gas here might cost an arm and a leg ...:
@BicycleBuck only issue in much of the US is lack of alternatives to driving. It just negatively impacts the poor to make driving more expensive.
Exactly. And this is why most of those proposals have failed. The people who are proposing them don't really understand how transportation in most of the US is accomplished. They think that everyone should move into urban areas where mass transit works. They forget that someone has to grow the food and someone has to provide basic services to the people who grow the food and that most natural resource extraction happens in rural areas and the people who do that need basic services and on and on....
Making it worse is complete ignorance regarding the plight of the working poor. They are the most vulnerable to even small increases in transportation costs.
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@RiceRocketeer
We have an old school go-in-to-pay gas station right around the corner with (3) 87 octane pumps and one diesel pump. Always the cheapest gas anywhere... I can't remember the last time I filled up anywhere else. Filled up yesterday.
I sometimes wonder if they're cutting it with water... Maybe I should call that complaint hotline.
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@FourMalibus Well the last time it got inspected was September of 2020 so it is due to get inspected but that is ridiculously cheap right now for Michigan.
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@Vondon302 I'm sure the pumps and gas are fine. It's always been 20-40 cents cheaper then anywhere else for over a year. I talked to a guy who talked to the owner and basically, the station is kind of in the middle of nowhere and it's a small general store, so when they used to be higher priced than other people (being an independent shop) no one would go out of their way to go there, so his store wasn't doing well either. So he decided to massively lower his prices and he says business is booming because now people do go out of their way to go there, and since you have to go in to pay, the general store is doing much better. He's making way more money now than he was before reducing the prices.
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@FourMalibus I love when economics work that way. Its fascinating how loss leaders function and if you can figure out how to only buy loss leaders, you can get great deals. It's why I never buy soda from restaurants, shit is like 400% profit.
'01 Mazda Miata, '06 Subaru STi, '22 Salsa Timberjack, '17 Schwinn Fastback
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@FourMalibus I'd go out of my way for that price too. Best non Costco is 4.01 and I was in Ann Arbor yesterday and 4.30 seemed normal in town.
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I totally understand buying only loss leaders, but I do try to help the guy out. I do buy most of my beer there and a few other odds and ends now and then. I'm sure I still come out ahead even if the beer is slightly more than the grocery store. I want him to make it because the store is within walking distance and it's fun to take the nieces and nephews there for ice cream in the summer, and a good place to pick something up in a hurry. The next closest spot to get a few things is like a 3-4 mile drive. -
@RiceRocketeer said in Gas here might cost an arm and a leg ...:
... but at least I got a BOOB in return.
One good boob deserves another! or something like that
