ShowerThoughts

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 🤷‍♂️

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.

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.

It goes up and down it'll come back down at some point when the recession gets worse lol.

Sorry, can't do.
I don't own anything with a gas tank to fill up.

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.

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.