$7/gallon gas is coming

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They crashed because Biden won over OPEC.

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Anonymous wrote:Guess we're all just going to ignore the fact that oil prices have crashed 20-30% this week.

Trumpsters are awaiting new talking points.

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We live in a reasonably sized home less than 1 mile from my job and DH works from home. If everyone did this, oil prices wouldn’t matter so much.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in a reasonably sized home less than 1 mile from my job and DH works from home. If everyone did this, oil prices wouldn’t matter so much.

Gee, you’re so brilliant. Why didn’t everyone else think of this!

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Anonymous wrote:As a senior citizen on a livable but modest income, there is no such thing as an affordable EV -- even at $46K. If you are raising a family on the median income of just over $60K, buying an EV is a pipe dream.

Also, I live in an apartment complex of 12 buildings - over 300 apartments -- so I can't even envision a method for charging the vehicles. When I look at the apartment/condo complexes in my area and the literally thousands of residents who live in them, the mind boggles with the problem of providing charging resources. Multiply that by the number of such living centers throughout the country!

Though I long ago left Michigan, my hometown of Detroit is the perfect example of a city that (a) has no effective mass transit (and is too spread out to make that even possible); (b) has many neighborhoods with only street parking and no way to erect charging stations, and (3) would require significant upgrade of the power grid. Multiply this by many similar cities in the country and you can see that a quick turn to EVs is essentially impossible.

In the years I lived in DMV (I moved just outside of it at retirement a couple of years ago), I realized most people here have little or no idea of what life is like outside of the bubble. The arrogance that crops up in these fora is astonishing and would be hysterically funny if it weren't so tragic.

It is good to have the EV goal and time will allow a transition that will not leave people behind. If you feel such a change must be done now -- immediately! -- it cannot happen no matter how much you wish it were so.

BTW, it IS an affordability problem!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for your trip down the Road of Reality!!!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in a reasonably sized home less than 1 mile from my job and DH works from home. If everyone did this, oil prices wouldn’t matter so much.

Gee, you’re so brilliant. Why didn’t everyone else think of this!

Take it up with the goobers who live in 4000 sq foot houses hours from their work, to which they insist on driving an SUV or a truck with crap gas mileage. You Republicans are always blabbing about “personal responsibility,” so why don’t you insist people take some when it comes to egregious fuel use?

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Anonymous wrote:But you cannot buy an EV without $$,$$$.

You all seem to think the only EVs are made by your god-king Elon Musk. That’s not the case.

+1
Get yourself a Nissan Leaf for 21K after the federal rebate. https://insideevs.com/news/565883/electric-car-prices-us-20220207/

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Anonymous wrote:We live in a reasonably sized home less than 1 mile from my job and DH works from home. If everyone did this, oil prices wouldn’t matter so much.

And how much did your reasonably sized but close in home cost, PP?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in a reasonably sized home less than 1 mile from my job and DH works from home. If everyone did this, oil prices wouldn’t matter so much.

Gee, you’re so brilliant. Why didn’t everyone else think of this!

Take it up with the goobers who live in 4000 sq foot houses hours from their work, to which they insist on driving an SUV or a truck with crap gas mileage. You Republicans are always blabbing about “personal responsibility,” so why don’t you insist people take some when it comes to egregious fuel use?

So what you are saying is that the hundreds of people who work in your typical city hospital, for instance, should live within a mile of it? How about the hundreds who work in a typical Amazon warehouse? Your local mall?

Yes, there are certainly people who are "overhoused" and live far from work but you're talking about a relatively small group compared to the millions who earn average wages, live in simple houses, and are just trying to get along in life. From what I see on DCUM, you're talking about a heck of a lot of Democrats living in big homes driving big SUVs and hopping on the highways to get to work. There is no shortage of "goobers" in either party.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in a reasonably sized home less than 1 mile from my job and DH works from home. If everyone did this, oil prices wouldn’t matter so much.

Gee, you’re so brilliant. Why didn’t everyone else think of this!

Take it up with the goobers who live in 4000 sq foot houses hours from their work, to which they insist on driving an SUV or a truck with crap gas mileage. You Republicans are always blabbing about “personal responsibility,” so why don’t you insist people take some when it comes to egregious fuel use?

I’ll be sure to pass on your wisdom to my kids’ daycare teachers, so they can sell their McMansions and Suburbans right away.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in a reasonably sized home less than 1 mile from my job and DH works from home. If everyone did this, oil prices wouldn’t matter so much.

Gee, you’re so brilliant. Why didn’t everyone else think of this!

Take it up with the goobers who live in 4000 sq foot houses hours from their work, to which they insist on driving an SUV or a truck with crap gas mileage. You Republicans are always blabbing about “personal responsibility,” so why don’t you insist people take some when it comes to egregious fuel use?

So what you are saying is that the hundreds of people who work in your typical city hospital, for instance, should live within a mile of it? How about the hundreds who work in a typical Amazon warehouse? Your local mall?

Yes, there are certainly people who are "overhoused" and live far from work but you're talking about a relatively small group compared to the millions who earn average wages, live in simple houses, and are just trying to get along in life. From what I see on DCUM, you're talking about a heck of a lot of Democrats living in big homes driving big SUVs and hopping on the highways to get to work. There is no shortage of "goobers" in either party.

I didn’t say anything about the politics of these goobers. You made the assumption that I did.

Personal responsibility. Make the choices you can afford and plan ahead for when those choices will cost more.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in a reasonably sized home less than 1 mile from my job and DH works from home. If everyone did this, oil prices wouldn’t matter so much.

Gee, you’re so brilliant. Why didn’t everyone else think of this!

Take it up with the goobers who live in 4000 sq foot houses hours from their work, to which they insist on driving an SUV or a truck with crap gas mileage. You Republicans are always blabbing about “personal responsibility,” so why don’t you insist people take some when it comes to egregious fuel use?

I’ll be sure to pass on your wisdom to my kids’ daycare teachers, so they can sell their McMansions and Suburbans right away.

ALL of my kids daycare teachers take the metro to work.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in a reasonably sized home less than 1 mile from my job and DH works from home. If everyone did this, oil prices wouldn’t matter so much.

Gee, you’re so brilliant. Why didn’t everyone else think of this!

Looks like PP is buying for all! So generous!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Guess we're all just going to ignore the fact that oil prices have crashed 20-30% this week.

Trumpsters are awaiting new talking points.

Over 5 bucks per gallon when I filled up yesterday