Eldritch
is insensitive
I am not mad at this thing so far.
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Gas Prices
- Thread starter byke
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Well....secretly....between you and I....I'm not either. Secretly....I love the idea of ten dollar gas and beyond, well beyond. It will cause us to eat ourselves and this would please me. For now though, I will play my mass-aligned role of outrage.
Eldritch
is insensitive
I mean, not likely, not really, but it will hurt inflation. Horse farmers got fucked up when ICE took over, but the world trundled on. EV's will be the standard in another 25 years and ICE will be for weirdos into collectibles that are down to pay the $30 a gallon, but for the next decade or so, we really haven't figured out jet fuel, and that is a problem.
I priced out one of those things and have it kitted up like a real car and not a stripped EV lego toy. It was more like $35k, but that is pretty competitive with all the other new cars on the block, so it seems to fit right in if they are built worth a damn.
And that's fine for the long run, but what you're talking about is incredibly incremental. Electric cars have been around for nearly 200 years. Aside from the handful of failed attempts prior to tesla, nothing stuck. And since tesla, EV's made up something like 5-7% of all new cars sold before the credits in 2022, and now they're back to the same after the credits expired. One thing I've noticed after living for a while is, absolutely nothing happens anywhere near as fast as anyone thinks it's going to. Nowhere near. No. Where. If ever.
Anyway, our current issues could have been very easily avoided.....veeeeeery easily, and it's not incremental at all. Zero percent of this is incremental decay of a waning tech, whereas farmers/ICE was exactly that. Gas is nearly 2x in a very short period due to the whimsical ego of one person doing something that nobody wants. That's an aspect which puts a little fire in people's bellies. When the folks with nothing to lose can no longer feed themselves, they will turn to crime and take from the people that can feed themselves. Mmmmm completely unnecessary and easily avoidable class warfare is deliciously awesome. Maybe we'll find out just how tough those hairgel bmw mma guys are.
Also, the base BYD Seagull is $8k. It's 75hp and maxes out at 80mph. Range is 190mi. Those modern versions of the 1979 civic are exactly what we should be mass producing, but culturally, americans are more of a thick forehead hummer type of people.
Sharxfan
Well-known member
I learned my lesson early and only use non-ethanol in my small engine stuff like weedeaters and they like had to replace too many carbs before I learned it though. Now they all last forever.