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“If Donny has to die, then let him die.”
Wouldn’t concern many.
Concern, no. Encouraged, by billions.
If they rise, they rise. Just makes solar an even more fucking obvious choice.
110% my next car will be an EV.
That’s really funny. My electricity prices have basically tripled over the past two or three years and my use hasn’t changed.
With the push towards AI data centers that seem to have coats pushed to the average homeowner, I do not think an EV will be the most cost effective option, at least in “car” form.
Maybe an electric bike or scooter would be more cost effective
Hybrid vehicles are still an option.
I bought a used 2014 Chevy Volt 3 weeks ago and am averaging 250 mpg since owning it, it’s got a lifetime 140 mpg average.
I live 13 miles from work so essentially not using gasoline. So stoked.
The higher the price of gas is, the more hybrids make sense.
Even if gas prices were low, I’d still want to buy a hybrid because prices don’t always stay low.
I feel you… I went full electric and despite having solar I’m at about 300€ monthly. And that’s on top of the cost of solar and the production I get from the panels. The less we take on the grid the more expensive it is. Now we pay to inject our production when we don’t auto consume it. So all in all it’s always about paying more.
But at least we are not fucking up the air anymore which was the initial idea.
I need a vehicle powered by spite. It’s my most common fuel, why can’t my car take it too?
Pretty sure that would be my bike
I know the prices vary by state and municipality but even with a 300% increase you might still save money overall with reduced maintenance and cost-per-mile. Filling up my tank with gas is ~$42 right now and with an equivalent EV it would cost ~$12 to fully charge (if it was 0-100%).
While my current use case for a car would not allow me to purchase an electric vehicle, my future case would. However, I am planning to wait for solid state vehicles. I don’t like how prone to thermal runaway lithium batteries are in their current state. That, and I don’t like the trend towards bigger and heavier vehicles.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy to own a large diesel truck for when I need a truck, but it feels like such a waste as a daily personal commuter vehicle. Most of the time, it’s literally me and my spouse. Sometimes we have groceries, sometimes luggage. It’s such a waste of space and energy to be transporting an extra 3000 lbs around
I’m going to a mostly off-grid solar system, with grid power only as an emergency backup.
I’d like to hear more about this.
Simply setting up an off-grid solar system with inverter and batteries connected to the primary side of an automatic transfer switch. With the grid power connected to the ‘reserve’ side on that automatic switch. Whenever battery power is available, the whole house will run on that, when/if the batteries run out, it will automatically switch to grid power. And automatically switch back to battery power when it’s available again.
(My power company is not very friendly toward grid-tie solar systems. So fuck 'em. I’ll go mostly off-grid and only use them for backup power.)
How much do you have to pay for the ability to have a backup, or are you lucky enough to be charged more or less nothing if the batteries don’t go out?
What do you mean by not friendly towards grid tie? Do they charge you more for having solar (supposedly some places in California may have this)? Did they tell you you can’t sell solar power back?
How much do you have to pay for the ability to have a backup, or are you lucky enough to be charged more or less nothing if the batteries don’t go out?
$10/mo service charge just for being connected. Might eventually replace it with a backup generator, but for now, $10/mo is a fair bit cheaper than buying, maintaining, and refueling a generator big enough to run the whole house.
What do you mean by not friendly towards grid tie? Do they charge you more for having solar (supposedly some places in California may have this)? Did they tell you you can’t sell solar power back?
A) You have to apply for permission to have a grid-tie system (with $100 application fee), and that application can be arbitrarily denied if they decide they don’t want any more grid-tie houses in this area. No way to tell if they’d approve it or not; either way, they’re keeping the fee.
B) Part of that application is permits and inspection, and there’s no way my house is passing an electrical system inspection. It was originally built in 1910 and has been added onto and modified many times by many owners since. Some circuits are completely dead, absolutely none of the breakers on my four service panels are labeled … it’s a nightmare. Getting all of it up to modern electrical code would probably involve just ripping out every inch of wiring in the house and redoing it from scratch.
C) They never let me ‘sell’ solar power back. They’ll never pay me cash for it under any circumstance. They give a 1:1 ‘energy credit’ which can be applied toward future power bills and that credit arbitrarily expires and resets to zero once a year, no matter how much you’ve built up. Not a great deal.
Fucking selfish evil piece of shit human being. There is absolutely no regard for the welfare of others.
Wasn’t he elected precisely because of things like gas prices?
If he was PM here in UK he would be facing calls to resign. This would be seen as abandoning the electorate or breaking a manifesto pledge.
In normal countries if a budget can’t be decided on, the government collapses and an election is held. In the US, they have indefinite 6 month extensions where they end up not paying government employees every 6 months for a month. The whole country is broken.
Christ, if anyone in the public sector went a month without pay over here the unions would be rioting in the streets. It just wouldn’t happen.
Come to think of it, regardless of whether a budget passes or not, I suspect the government would still be legally bound to pay wages. I don’t know for sure though cos I can’t remember it ever happening.
It’s “illegal” for public unions to strike here.
Reagan famously fired all air traffic control workers because they went on strike.
Learned about that from John Oliver. How the hell the unions have just quietly sat on that for 40 years as if they didn’t get their legs knocked from under there is beyond me.
In parliamentary democracies, it defaults to the status quo. Basically last year’s budget, plus that changes that it entailed. Taxes are still coming in, so there is no reason to stop money from going to places it needs to go and the difference between balance is called a deficit. Belgium could not form a government for 1-2 years rcently and ran through this scenario.
Its amazing that not only did the US never plan for this scenario but they’ve never changed it since. How do you convince someone to work for you when they might only get paid for 10 months a year?
And that downtime won’t be good for productivity either.
For parliamentary democracies the budget is the big point of contention. Most votes of no confidence happen because a failed budget proposal.
If he was PM here in UK he would be facing calls to resign.
Real, I remember the day before Truss left, I overheard some man on the bus saying on the phone how she and the entire party should be “strung up in the streets”.
UK isn’t as quick to tolerate that sort of shit lol. They may drag their feet at times, but when they decide you’re gone, you’re gone.
It’s crazy how much the American populace is willing to put up with.
No, that’s fake news. What he said — he said you hear me ? He said he was gonna lower the price of eggs. And he did, it’s tremendous, the eggs… They’re cheaper than ever before. And they’re huge, huge eggs you wouldn’t believe it. I saw an egg… hear me, an egg that was so big it made Xi Jinpin afraid. Bigger than Greenland, and it was a cheap egg, a proud American egg. But now people don’t want cheap eggs, they want cheap gaz. Because that’s what woke Biden told em to want. /s
And they’re huge, huge eggs you wouldn’t believe it.
The likes we’ve never seen before… And probably won’t again… 😅
I think you mean Iceland*
Why the fuck should they! Fuckn asshole!
Tbh, I’m not so concerned about myself. But the effect of higher gas prices tends to be very regressive. People who have less means often have to drive less fuel-efficient vehicles and have longer commutes due to housing costs. Additionally, this is going to affect the cost of other things (e.g. food).
People who are already stressed financially are going to really feel the squeeze.
That’s not a bug, but a feature. It means more money flows from poor Americans – often POC or immigrants, who Trump despises – to his already filthy rich friends in the oil biz.
It’s pretty great that they’re already in full hubris mode cos that usually kills the facade really quick for normies
Those grapes are sure sour.
Trump to the world: “Fuck you all, no one is stopping me from doing anything so I will keep getting more extreme until we find a breaking point.”
its fine-- when he dies we sue his estate and Jared Kushner and take back everything he took with interest, and we toss his criminal enterprise kids in jail.
Extra stupid because, even if he doesn’t care about the retail price of gasoline for normal people, gas prices drive inflation by increasing the cost to produce basically everything.
His friends + Russian Hitler are raking it in, good enough for American Hitler?
Too many hitlers these days smh
Somebody should do something about that.
“Drain the Swamp”, “Anti-elite”, “America First”, “Fighting for Main Street, not Wall Street”.
So where are all the “I did that” stickers on the gas pumps with his face?
I’ve seen a couple.
I bought a pack of googly eyes to add to the ones I see, but haven’t seen any recently.
Ive seen one of JD Vance with a tiny head ala the Super Mario Bros movie Koopa but no Trump ones (in person) yet.
