Survival and Emergency Preparedness

Paid ....$3.99 at Costco today, everywhere else was $4.19 - $4.49. $65 to fill up the car today. I foresee 70's style gas shortages on the horizon just to put the cherry on top of this crap sundae.

Well, I have a Ram 2500 6.4L
MPG:
Highway 17
City 12.5
Towing avg 10
Towing with a headwind 8

Paying 4.20 for midgrade in Arizona now

Gas is $4.30 a gallon this morning. Diesel is $5.35 a gallon.

aerynsun wrote: ↑Wed Mar 09, 2022 10:31 pm Well, I have a Ram 2500 6.4L
MPG:
Highway 17
City 12.5
Towing avg 10
Towing with a headwind 8

Paying 4.20 for midgrade in Arizona now

I have a Chevy Equinox. I average about 26 mpg but have hit just over 34 mpg on the highway. Has an electronic meter that tells me how much I'm using constantly. So I try to drive it where I'm getting into the high 20's to extend the tank. I like the challenge. Also, a 1/2 tank is now the new empty for me. I try not to go below 1/2 a tank before filling it up.

Kinda sucks that the oil companies and car companies suppress the computer chips that would allow the same engine to get 50+ mpg.

1. I paid $5.69 last night at a cheap gas station.
2. I had business dealing with a guy who came to this country as an immigrant from eastern Europe after WW2 at a time when he owned 110 gas stations in LA (under different major oil co signage) and refinery. It knocks a hole in conspiracy theories. He made no money on gasoline sales.

He made his money on selling cigarettes, candy, sandwiches and beer.
Most people drive around on empty. The capacity of the gasoline tanks in vehicles is 4 times that of the storage capacity of all the underground tanks and refineries. When people panic and everyone goes to the pumps or on holidays, there is a distribution problem. Price setting is easy. Once a day, a station calls in the price on the station across the street.

3. I have a brother who has a phd and is a scientist. He believes that there is a conspiracy that the oil companies have tankers circle around in the ocean waiting for the price of gasoline to go up. He has no idea of the cost of have a ship sit idle in the ocean, much less tooling around.
People get fed all kinds of b.s. theories. Oh it is dangerous to have a pipeline to transport Canadian oil across the border to the US! Right?
Do you know who owns the train line that transports the same oil across the border to the US from Canada. It is thesame guy who had over 200 appointments to meet officials in the Obama White House (not to meet him, but to meet with people in the White House). The same pipeline has been transporting oil from the same northern US state down to Texas for almost a decade.

I file a farmer's income tax return. There is a WW2 gas pipe line running across my property. It is going to be replaced after 70 years. Why has it taken so long? Why no refineries been built in the US in years? Well, it is not a conspiracy between the oil companies to raise prices. Look in the mirror at the voter who did not want a refinery. My state voters wanted a gasoline tax increase last year. It got it. Now, the same people want to complain. Well, raising the price of gasoline $1 plus in a year will get more cars off the road than building the next toy train from east LA to beach to give ride on weekends. Or building new roads.

I would like to know what oil company or what car company has bought some computer chip patent and suppressed it. Most members understand the internal combustion engine. It is only so efficient. What is the difference between a pick up truck and a car? I have a car on a frame that is nearly identical to a pickup truck frame. But the mileage of the behmouth pickup truck is not a factor in calculating acceptable fleet mileage of cars churned out by a car manufacturer. When you cut through false mileage tests by car manufacturers like VW, throw in mileage by big pick up trucks, don't include electric cars that have no recharging stations, you don't get much better mileage than a Model T. When you have promises of replacing 14000 aging postal vehicles with state of the electric postal vehicles made in Detroit, don't believe it. The reality, NOW, is that they will be gasoline powered, made in South Carolina and MAY get .4 miles to the gallon better. Right now, the fleet gets about 8 miles to the gallon.

Not a thing. I work from home. I don't need to go more than a few miles a week period.

Suspect the gas prices are more due to the oil company losses from work at home than anything else. Follow the money.

Gas in around $4.20/gallon in the Detroit area

Now this is serious.
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/dori ... enflation/

aerynsun wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 9:41 am Now this is serious.
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/dori ... enflation/

I've always enjoyed Dorritos but I'll be honest, I stopped eating them when the company went woke. I don't eat any of that stuff these days.

To be fair, Biden has nothing to do with that. Companies are constantly either a) raising prices or b) reducing the amount one gets per unit sold at the same price.

Either way - you are paying more per unit. And almost everyone does it. But when you post it and make us BS about why you did it...yeah. I can eat all kinds of iother chips. That also do the same thing.