It goes up and down it'll come back down at some point when the recession gets worse lol.
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Collapsing the economy would do that
I could replace my 2 seater with a motorcycle and go through like 2 gallons a years.
I just can't take my stepdaughter to school on it. As it stands, I go through 2 or 3 tanks a year on the car I have.
But for God sake, don't buy a slightly smaller more fuel efficient vehicle.
You morons go through this every 4-5 years and as soon as gas prices go back down you're back to the V8 Cayoneros.
Okay you get a smaller car and your going to wait to buy gas when it's more expensive?
You didn't address a single thing I said
What is there to address??
"gas went up for a couple weeks and i think that means it will go up forever"
Great post where do i even begin
Best way to predict future treads is to look at past ones. Plus you can look at the Trump's war and how that's going. Gas is gonna be going up for weeks to come
Sure probably will for a few weeks, until it goes back down and nobody knows when. Could even go down while the war continues because the economy crashes and demand craters, which is somethin economists are actively studying. It's quite possible the high oil prices cause a recession that lowers the price of gas sooner than we would expect.
Or it pleataues for months and people wish they got gas now aka follow my advice. Plus everyone keeps saying the economy will crash and it technically has in the way they described, but economy ends up correcting itself and mitigating the crash so it's not as bad as they claim it would be.
Trump's Tarrifs fuck things up and hurt the economy just not cause a serious recession
I mean i need to buy gas once a week, i guess yeah if you only get gas every few months then yes you're right fill it up now.
Based on past trends, I predict oil price will go either up or down in the future.
That has to be another countries gas prices simple because j instead of y and the numbers on the left don't reflect USD prices unless it's a price per barrel
It's the price of crude oil on the global market.
Gas price directly depends on it, barring government intervention and taxation.
Speak for yourself. My car is 10 years old. And its an i4 turbo.
I don't follow this logic. How long does your tank last. You will always need to fill the tank in the future. Going electric is the only thing people can do to mitigate the gas prices.
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If everyone does that, the shortage hits harder as more is going unused, being hoarded. So the price goes up more.
Drive less. Consume less. Reduce demand, not increase it.
Consume less? That's unAmerican. You mean get two more credit cards maxed out.
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Instead of playing the game of maximizing the cost, reduce the usage. That will have a much larger effect than trying to gain a few cents as prices increase over time.
My dad was born in 1943 and would tell us a story about the corner gas station where the price had always been a fixed 29 cents a gallon since he could remember. At some point, as a kid, he noticed when it went up to 30 cents and realized it would never go back down. What caused the increase, who knows, but it's funny to plug in 28-30 cents into an inflation calculator and find it's the same as $4.00 in today's dollars.
You know what was different, though? Wages. While we do need to use less oil for lots of reasons, including cost, resources, and environment, that isn't why gas prices are a problem.
Nobody is out there driving for fun man, not anymore and in this economy. There's not much we can do to drive less because we already only drive when we have to. Yes we drive a lot but we have to go to work, we have to go to the doctor we have to go to groceries. Honestly im sick of driving nothing better than a sunday when i dont have to get in yhe car but the reality is i have to drive almost every day unless i want to go live in my car.
It's absolutely a Catch-22. The whole system is designed to need a private transportation source, and how do you undo that? A working public transportation system for more than just select urban areas, places designed for foot and small vehicle traffic, and local centers for basic needs, so you don't have to go tens of miles or more for them. We all want this, I don't doubt, but how do you change enough of what exists to make a difference?
how do you undo that?
Well me how do I undo that? I move to a different country lol, that's my long term goal
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This seems to happen every four years. Someone starts a war in the Middle East, and gas prices go up. People have a short memory. Gas prices will go back down, probably after the midterms if sanity returns. And then everyone will run out and buy a new gas guzzling SUV again.
Meanwhile, used EVs are very competitively priced. 🤷♂️
Can only do so much with one tank, though. IDK how smart it would be to keep a tank or barrel of fuel in your garage ...
I've considered similar with food, but most of the food I eat is either perishable or has low value per volume, and I have limited storage space. I did stock up on cheese, though.
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But then you're keeping your tank full, which is extra weight, which requires more fuel burn. To properly optimize, you should be calculating your exact fuel burn to get to your next destination and only put that much into your vehicle to avoid the extra weight. Lose all of the extra shit too, you only really need the steering wheel, gas, brakes, lights, engine, a couple of mirrors, the driver's seat, and a window to be street legal.
Now that's more reason to get jerry cans/storage tanks for the garage. Ironically the optimal amount would be close to empty tank in terms of fuel efficiency.
Running your tank below half constantly isn't always the best idea though as your fuel pump needs to be sitting in the fuel to cool itself. If the tank is run close to empty it isn't in the fuel bath anymore, it sits above it.
Sorry, can't do.
I don't own anything with a gas tank to fill up.
Yeah I really regret a couple weeks ago I didn't fill up when the prices were at $6.10, which was ridiculously high already. I kept waiting for prices to go down but my tank was nearing empty, now the prices are nearly $8/gallon. I had to fill up. 😭
It cost $115 to fill my tank 6/10.
I wish I could fill up that cheap, here in Germany it is over 2,4€ per liter, which is $10 per gallon.
I guess I'll bike more.
well if your gonna use your entire tank in the next month id fill up today. i cant determine how valuable your destinations are.
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