Gas issue not a problem for my family

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Eddie18 (80 posts)

Gas issue not a problem for my family

One of our cars is a 2025 Subaru EV Soltera. No gas, no oil, etc Range of 240 miles.

The other vehicle is a 2025 Jeep Wrangler 4XE plug-in hybrid. We fill it with gas when we hit half a tank as the work commute uses EV power and no gas. We have filled it 3 times in the last year and use gas on occasion to keep fuel fresh.

While gas is not a problem, the gas coming out of the GOP political vehicle is annoying.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221125109

New DUmmie virtue signaling they have a new EV...

[SVPete]

EVs and hybrids are an energy $$ and pollution shell game.

Meanwhile, here in Silicon Valley, gas prices are still lower than the LIEden peak that DU-folk did not see being a problem. Unlike DU-folk, if the prices at the stations I've been using for years do top the LIEden peak, I won't keep quiet about it. I won't lie, even by omission.

[Airwolf]

Yeah, those EV vehicles are nice until it is time to replace the battery. Between the cost of a new one and then the resultant ecological problem with getting rid of them I think that whatever they save will in the long run be erased later on.

[ADsOutburst]

Our local pulbic transit has some electric buses in their fleet. This past winter, I was talking to someone who told me a bunch of them weren't working. I don't know whether that had to do with winter weather, but if true, it's annoying as hell.

[SVPete]

Our local pulbic transit has some electric buses in their fleet. This past winter, I was talking to someone who told me a bunch of them weren't working. I don't know whether that had to do with winter weather, but if true, it's annoying as hell.

Batteries don't "like" colder and hotter weather. Temperature extremes, like winter and summer in much of the US mess with battery charge capacity (= vehicle range per charge). Even ignoring the few that have self-incinerated, EV buses are not performing well.

[Ralph Wiggum]

No time to copy & paste the responses, but they're all over the map and worth one's time to peruse. They alternate between praising him/her/it, an occasional bash for being able to afford new cars, sanctimonious questioning everyone's "carbon footprint", and all sorts of topics.

I'll give that a 3.5 on the bong scale.

[SVPete]

No time to copy & paste the responses, but they're all over the map and worth one's time to peruse. They alternate between praising him/her/it, an occasional bash for being able to afford new cars, sanctimonious questioning everyone's "carbon footprint", and all sorts of topics.
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The OP reeks of the smugness of the pre-1995 line from lovers of Deciduous Fruit Computers, "Get a Mac." The OP is basically, "I got something new that is better than most of you have."

[DLR Pyro]

unless the DUmmy's electric utility company is 100% solar, hydro electric, wind or nuclear, he is just fooling himself that he is saving the planet and not dependent on fossil fuels

My F-150 uses both regular gas as well as E-85.  I have been using the E-85 for a few weeks now as it is $2.99 a gallon while regular gas in So Cal is around $5.50 a gallon.

[fatboy]

Rising energy costs are not a problem for me and my family either. Why? Because we live below our means, save for our future and plan for the ups and downs of the economic cycle. As far as fuel prices are concerned, the difference between the Biden cost run up, it was caused by bad and unnecessary politics. This current run up has a real chance of ending, once and for all, a political machine that has at its core, a policy to destabilize and take hostage the world economy and make our lives measurably more dangerous. If at the end this action, that threat is eliminated or greatly reduced, it will be worth paying more for energy short term. But either way, those of us that plan for changes in the economy have the advantage of not being disturbed by every economic hiccup and actually plan ways for us to benefit.