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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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fill up on gas every chance you get because gas prices will only go up. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by solidheron@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works

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backstory is that i try to fill up my tank more when gas prices are at a low and less as prices go up to make my long term average cost per gallon lower.

now given current events, and empirical reality, gas has only been going up and will continue to go up. we could assume different curves(only constraint being that price per gallon goes up as time goes forward), but if you buy your gas now you will spend less money then you have if you bought it tomorrow, day after, or week down the road. my estimate is that it will be month minimum before it gets cheaper.

now that I have put this out there into the world you should fill up asap, I already filled up before making this post and other people will come up with this idea independently of me.

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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. Sort of a catch22.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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. I dont have enough hands to rebuild a transportation system lol

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago

interesting, but you could argue that refining wasn't as advanced and there wasn't as many refineries as there are now so supply was low. that would confirm that gasoline deflated at some point for america.

but it would by cool to advocate for walkable cities