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Coming To A Gas Station Near You?
This is neither from the near (or distant) future, nor from a movie starring Will Smith in which he fights vampire zombies (at least not yet). It's from the here and now, Calabasas, CA to be precise. And it may be coming to a gas pump near you in the immediate future.
and from San Francisco... the fill 'er up is getting a little pricey...
h/t JR
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Fuck yeah. Soon we will be like India ...little scooters with baskets of junk and bicycles with little carts everywhere.
This year I am asking Santa Claus for a printing press
so I don't have to worry about trifflin' shit like this.
Maybe I should buy a bicycle... The only downside is getting caught in thunderstorms (happen all the time here), and I only live two miles from work.
Polyester dries real fast.
Cant wait for $200 fill-ups in the Raptor.
Inflation pressures are seen as largely transient.
- Dr. Benjamin Bernanke
He said it, so it must be true. Now go back to sleep, Muppitchez.
People will stay asleep until they cannot awaken.
The EIA is calling black sludge coming out of the ground crude oil. Not all crude is created equal and older refineries cannot deal with this shit.
It's Not Oil. There is bullshit going on end to end across the conceptual spectrum about all sorts of things. It is AMAZING how quickly outright lying became palatable to the guy doing it.
Propane is not crude. Butane is not crude. Venezuelan sludge is not crude that can be refined anywhere but a few refineries.
There Is Not Enough Oil Coming Out Of The Ground. The population rises every day. Oil total does not.
Most won't survive the events leading to "fair dividing up of what there is".
Yet the question still remains, are yeast smarter than humans?
I commute to work on a bicycle.
Right now, early Saturday morning, am getting ready for the weekly ride to restock the fruit/veggie stock.
I run almost all my local errands via bike.
Truck rarely gets used.
The more gas prices rise, the less often I will drive.
Who's with me on this...???
I broke down and bought a Prius earlier this year. I paid $23,200 for it. Gets 53-54 MPG for my mostly urban driving. I expect it to last me 10-12 years. Fuck 'em I decided, I'm taking gas out of my budget as a big expense. Used to drive a Yukon, damn nice vehicle but after govt take over of GM refuse to drive their shit anymore.
if you expect a modern auto to last that long, you sir, are a dreamer, or willing to throw good money after bad into auto repairs
i suggest you start saving up for your replacement battery now.
neighbor has two of those turd wagons in the family. both needed a battery in a little over four years. the big make it go vroom battery. 4+grand worth of battery.
my hybrid battery lasted 10 years and was replaced for free due to a charging algorithm problem
Its now 12 years old and doing just fine with 120k miles on it...
Not sure how smooth traffic is at your urban driving,
but I just helped my girlfriend get a 12 year old Corolla, needed investment just $4000 (with 70,000 miles and salvage title but well repaired).
She now gets 35+ mpg at mostly freeway, good enough for her 20,000 annual commuter miles.
Still keeps her BMW X5 4.8 though <roll eyes>
Im' down with that
In regards to self-population control in a confined environment - people are about as proactive as yeast. It's about 11:59:58. . .
The population/oil bubble is the greatest bubble of all time.
"Polyester dries real fast."
Those conical straw hats shed water pretty well too.
If you're that kind of coward, you might need a better bicycle...
Apart from the facts that rain-soaked brakes can be "less than effective", and car-esconced commuters are, shall we say, "less than concerned" with the plight of wet cyclists, lightning can, and has, killed many cyclists. I've had a couple of "near misses" during thunderstorms that "popped up" as they do, and the realisation that you're the tallest object for km around can certainly "add a spring to your step" in terms of pedalling performance!
There's nothing cowardly about taking sensible precautions. You only get a single chance.
Relax, you are insulated. Rubber tyres.
Lightining will travel kilometers towards the earth, to be stopped by an inch of rubber.
Here in Seattle, most serious folks ride with disc brakes. I've got a set of cable-actuated Avids on my drop-bar 29er and they barely notice the rain. They work substantially better than the hydro Maguras rim brakes I used to run. If you run flat bars, hydro discs would probably be an even better option.
Yup luv my bike's disc brakes, water is
not a problem.
or a better chamois
Wow, $8K for a bicycle. My first thought was "kidnapping and ransom magnet".
Volt, DoChen. Nicely watertight. So far, one year, 20.5 gallons, mostly burned on purpose for winter heat (electric heat is wasteful). 182 mpg for me so far. Luxurious, quick, agile, fun.
Luxurious, quick, agile, fun.
You forgot gay.
+1.....Laugh of the day!
Probably got a big ass OBAMABIDEN2012 sticker on it.
Sticker or no sticker, it's still the most expensive vagina repellent you can buy.
... it has a specially designed cup holder for your testicles
And if they got anything like the performance advertised (they don't) the gas would go bad in the tank.
The other fucked up thing is Gubbermint Motors has picked the dumbest looking, gayest, cross-eyed pitch "common folks" to "rave" about their Chevy Dolts on TEE VEE.
From that gay nasel-voiced goat-tee sporting fag, to the cross eyed bimbo blonde - all seemingly in "love" and garage-fucking their rides.
Wait...those ARE the only people actually owning them....stupid gay guys and dumb-looking cross eyed people.
Focus group tested, paid for by taxpayers and entirely correct: normal folks don't buy DaDolt. Sell to gays and Obummer ladies.
Focus group tested, paid for by taxpayers and entirely correct: normal folks don't buy DaDolt. Sell to gays and Obummer ladies.
Focus group tested, paid for by taxpayers and entirely correct: normal folks don't buy DaDolt. Sell to gays and Obummer ladies.
You can get a Prius for half the $$.
Lease a New 2013 Chevrolet Volt for $299/month, for 36 months 36,000 miles. Save $100/mo in gas, this makes the lease effectively $199/mo. That kind of money is a steal for a car with the features and ride quality that a Volt has.
GM the manufacturer can take the available $7,500 federal tax credit for themselves.
TrueCar.com, a vehicle pricing and data provider, said Wednesday.
"I'm utterly surprised people are not lining up to get one at that price," Toprak said. "The annual fuel savings alone make this car very appealing."
Sorry...I like shit that works, and lasts. I'll keep my 2000 Subaru with a $0/mo payment, liability insurance only, and no fire extinguisher as standard equipment.
Purple K is worth it in any car. It may ruin the finish if ever used, but that a small price. The user has more snuffing power with less weight & volume (and long term fuel expense).
Seriously. My vehicles (which are both paid for) are cheaper to run than that Volt lease per month - including insurance AND gas. And after I'm done commuting in my Honda for about $20/wk, I can load up the Cummins pickup with 3k lbs of shit in the back and still tow 10k more lbs if I need to and be able drive more for 500 mi on a single tank of diesel.
and the $10k worth of electric upgrades required for just about any house built before 1990 makes the $100 saved a month just about useless.
My house would need a new breaker box, and new lines run from the street. Pretty much would need to rewire the entire basement. You can't have the high voltage line near the water heater or furnace. Even if it weren't against code, I don't think I'd risk putting a rapid charger anywhere close to a gas line.
I guess I could unplug the dryer and run a heavy duty extension cord from the basement, but that still charges the Volt in 8 hours. Sorry hun, can't dry the clothes at night, car is charging. I guess charging for a couple hours would still get you about 15 miles, and then you are stuck with the almost 30mpg range extender, in optimal conditions, 20 mpg is actually closer to the mark in real driving conditions.
Of course since it is a lease, you don't have an asset worth anything when you are done, not that the resale value will be great anyway. God, how much is GM taking as a writedown on depreciation to get the Volt lease to $299 a month? You could take the $12k+ you spent on the Volt lease and buy a two year old Kia that gets 35mpg. Or you can lease a new 40mpg Hyundai Sonata for $99 a month with $2k down and be way ahead of the game. $100 saved in gas for three years plus the Volt, is still far more expensive.
It doesn't matter. There is virtualy no situation where the Volt comes out on top. Perhaps if you live in silicon valley and your tech firm has a fast charger installed at work, and you live five miles away. That can't be everyone though. Besides, just the savings in living expenses in the middle of the country alone can make $10 a gallon gas a value.
Surely a fire extinguisher strapped to the hood reduces aerodynamic efficiency.
Wile E. knows all about aerodynamic efficiency, huh?
Got to know them facts when falling great distances regularly! ;-)
I'd rather ask him for a bank, so I don't ever have to worry about paying myself again. That, and break the law constantly, start wars with countries that don't have central banks, make sure my candidate for president always wins, and never worry about losing my job forever.
and how is oil UNDER $120? Oh yeah uh election...
Do an image search on "vietnam scooter burden" at Google.
Regards,
Cooter
I was thinking more like Bartertown with gyrocopters and guys named Blaster but I guess scooters would be acceptable. Btw, I like your commentary Dr. E. Keep up the good work.
I hope it never gets as bad as Barter town.
Thank you for the kind compliment, I appreciate it. I am very grateful that I found the Hedge. There are so many brilliant people who post in the commentary that I learn as much from them as I do from Tyler and the articles. It is sometimes very humbling to be a part of the discussion.
NO kidding, and I still wonder why is there a gas situation going on?
The ubiquitous Honda Cub 50 - literally the World's most popular motorbike! The "bike" component is repairable by any Blacksmith / Cycle repairer, whils the "engine" component is repairable byany garden machinery / lawnmower dealership.
Owned one of these for years in the UK -by far the best and cheapest way to commute in London!
Just filled up both cars and extra 5 gallon container. Still $3.95 in Midwest. Godspeed all.
If you don't have locking gas caps you better get one!
Helps keep mosquitoes out of your empty tank
That won't help in the UK people have been drilling holes into the gas tanks.
Mostly they are plastic nowadays. So drilling does not even create any sparks.
Gee, whodathunk it? ;-)
That is a seriously shitty crim right there.
YOW! More than $1.80 than I paid today ("Super+")
Gasoline in S FL is generally more expensive than the national average.
It must be terrible living in California now. It looks like the smart ones are leaving. Good luck, such a beautiful state ruined by statists.
Diesel is Six Bucks in CA
Crazifornia exodus: People fleeing dense cities, regulations
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS FLEE DEMOCRAT-RUN CALIFORNIA
CA is for suckers. Move to Texas. Made the move 10 years ago, never looked back.
+10 years
Moved from CA to OK ten years ago.
Why do so many millions of Californians flee that state out of disgust for any number of reasons --- and then try their damnedest to re-create it wherever they end up? I wonder if those still living in California, or former Californians who have left it, realize the extent of the resentment and loathing so many in neighboring states have for them.
When do we get the Meanwhile, in California post?
Meanwhile in California, the statists have already publicly stated (double entendre) that it has nothing to do with no fucking refinery capacity shortage (the last being built in the US in the late 60's) the additional blending requirements, the absence of any pipelines running east/west not that the environmental shit had anything to do with it, not that California taxing oil coming out of the ground helps, nor any other idiocy here...
But.... they have said it was all Bush's fault, clean renewables woulda taken care of this shit, everybody should be forced to own a Volt, greedy oil companies, specualtors, Republicans, Tea Party, RACISM
And the food in California tastes worse than Lady Gaga's re-fried testicles.
But... we do get to golf all year round in temperate zones manifesting themselves far far away from the shit holes of San Fran and LA. So just leave us in peace.
Meanwhile elsewhere, everybody should prepare... for CA does lead the way.
Unfortunately, with respect to the human shit...
Having the ability to own a viable electric car (EV-1?) might be helpful for Californians about now. Electric cars existed 100 years ago, but the technology never advanced.
Oh never mind, it's just a pipe dream. Electric cars? Can you imagine? Why not flying cars? Or Jetpacks?
Tesla, Leaf, I think Ford finally came out with a pure electric, but the sales leader vs time in market - Volt. The one everyone else has to catch up with in versatility. No wonder BMW and VIA hired off their design team.
Dude. Toyota has been building the Prius hybrid since 2000.
Yep Ford "borrowed" about $4billion from the Federal Government at around 2% interest to build an electric Focus.
Or at least that is what we are supposed to believe.
Been about $350 million every month from the Federal Financing Bank advanced vehicles loan program. Sometimes a lot more, sometimes a little less. I think one month last year Ford borrowed $650 million.
Holy shit that electric Focus has to be one hell of a car!!!!!
I bet most of the electric cars in Los Angeles are driven less than 75 miles per week. Probably just back and forth to Trader Joes or Whole Foods. They are like iPhones- a fashion accessory to help the owner think that they are cool, despite the fact that there are more economical alternatives.
Meanwhile (a couple yards away) in Nevada the avg price is $3.85 per gallon, so scratch the refining capacity and the lack of pipelines arguments. If Gov. Moonbeam had any balls or brains he would simply suspend the idiotic regulations by fiat, and they could truck non-PRC approved gas into the state and still sell it for a lot less than is currently being extracted from the muppets. In fact, big bad oil could financially rape the meat puppets of the PRC with out of state gas and they would be screaming thank you sir, can I get some more.
Doesn't matter. I fill up my car at the new hopium station. My gas tank is still empty, but I just know it's gonna be full someday, somehow.
Hopium never lets you down.. Best inert gas Evaaaaaa
Good.
Californians are happier than pigs in shit.
Your state's regulations on energy put you there. It's your fault, CA citizens, that a gas refinery hasn't been built since the 70's because some penguin got lung cancer.
Get on your big government provided Huffy bikes and STFU you tree hugging liberal freaks. This is what you ASKED for.
I knew that Penguin. Smoked two packs a day and had a temper when he drank. Hell of a swimmer though.
Would've been a mayor of Gotham City if it weren't for f*ing Batman!
Julia, this is ZH, no asterisks needed. In fact, you are required to curse...I mean you are fucking required to curse.
A Penguin fucked Batman?
How else would you explain the existence of Barney Frank?
Butt he's not from California!
+100
DAMMIT!!! There goes another keyboard.
"A Penguin fucked Batman?"
In a Wesley Willis song no doubt.
+100 SNAPS
The vultures, the vultures ate my dead ass up!
@HD
My fucking apologies.
You are now one of us.
Expect a Flowers By Irene truck to be parked across the street from you from now on.
Yeah, if you're outside at night and suddenly get this strange sensation that you need to hide your heat signature, trust your instincts.
If you insulate your walls and ceiling with mylar blankets, there's no need for a tinfoil hat.
Always a classy dresser too.
Funny
Almost every product you purchase has a small disclaimer,
The state of california has determined that this product may cause cancer
True.
Is on boxes of Fleet enemas in CA.
(Why the fuck do I know about this shit?)
And ironically, in car culture capital California, gasoline is about to become the enema of the state
Everything in CA causes cancer, this is true.
Except when Al Gore cruises in on his global cooling jet. A jet plane that only expels rainbows as exhaust as he is picked up in SUVs that run on lucky charms and magic.
They're magically delicious.
CA may cause cancer to the US
Hmmm, now it makes sense why abbreviation for cancer is CA.
California has determined that the act of living may result in cancer
I didn't vote for this shit...but you are right.
Gotta keep that nine-tenths of a cent on the end of it, though!
Why the FUCK do they still pull that bullshit? Where else in the USA is ANYTHING priced to the tenth of a cent?
Hookers, drugs, and other illegal stuff not regulated in this country that don't need a stinkin 9/10 at the end of it.
I'm cool with gas at $5.69, but $5.69.9 ... that's where I draw the line.
It's like the 90% point on NutbagYahoo's 'bomb' cartoon.
(Plutonium Be Upon Him)
because it sounds cheaper than rounding it up, like buying a car for 9,999.99
Earl Schieb, any car any color, $29.99
I'll take Chevy Volt in "Gobstopper Blue" for 200, Earl. I mean Alex.
ou've been away for a while. I think they were up to $499.99 before they went out of business a couple of years back...
The other prisioners wouldn't let me watch anything other than Jimmy the Door Opener, which they'd convinced the warden was a kid's program.
Last commercial I saw for him was $119.95...back in the 90's. Inflation.
At least Cal Worthington is still at it.
You know, that is apparently the perceived "wisdom" of marketing experts and advertisers, but I say it is pure bullshit.
Are you really telling me that you do NOT instantly convert a price such as $69.99 into $70 in your head as soon as you see it? Just like so much else in our sheepish society today, what "everyone" knows to be true is once again a ball of crap.
My understanding is that it was originally devised early in retail by vendors so that a purchaser wanting his one cent change would force the sales clerks to use the cash register and record the sale, preventing the clerk from pocketing the cash. Some marketer probably took credit once the sheer gullibility of the average consumer began to sink in.
Which is why the credit card was invented, because it became too hard for the common clerk to figure out how to make change for a $9.99 item when the customer handed them a $10 bill.
*by the way you are correct.
Your a loser!! Thats why your still living w/ mommie and daddie...
No, your daddy left a long time ago, with his "friend" --- the downlow just wasn't doing it for him any more. And while your mommy's STDs tend to encourage me to keep her at arm's length, she does make a Hell of a good meatloaf, so I let her stay around.
All you -9'er's r still w/ your parents, banging on a keyboard, in the bedroom u grew-up in. See how mad AkAk is! Your a fuck-up, Akak. Your anger proves it along w/ the four that think your so kool w/ your comment. Get a life, dud!
All you -9'er's r still w/ your parents, banging on a keyboard, in the bedroom u grew-up in. See how mad AkAk is! Your a fuck-up, Akak. Your anger proves it along w/ the four that think your so kool w/ your comment. Get a life, dud!
Did you seriously go through the process of creating a ZH profile and wait for the turn-around time for approval for the sole purpose of making that comment?
Tyler really needs to go back to captcha.
I never knew that AKAK was a dud.I hate duds...
Oh fuck! To kool for words!
Apparently, you are "to kool" for an education, either.
It's always sad to find a raging methhead here --- they're usually more attracted to making comments on Yahoo or Twitter.
I have worked as a seller in a retail store and I can tell you this from experience: The .99 make a difference in people mind.
When they ask me the price and I say 59.99$ instead of 60$, you can see they stop listening after i say 59. Their brain just cut out the rest as useless details. But they still stay with the feeling that it is leess than 60$.
Not everyone is like that, but I can tell you there is enough of them to justify the trick.
It's funny as hell when I say "so it's $60," and they look at me like "how did he find out?"
The Crazy advertising researchers have proved that the sheeple brain DOES respond that 9.99 IS a more appealing deal than 10 bucks. Baaaa... somehow my brain goes in to caveman mode every single time i see titites. OMG look at those... I cant help myself!!!
the $.99.9 cent store wher the disclaimer states all prices will be rounded up to the nearest cent at the register.
Well if you get 10 gallons that's an extra penney. Penney saved is a penney not to give a shit about.
HEy loser,
Is'nt kinda a drag living w/ your parents, Your a complete loser! I now it must feel good to blame the world by pounding on the keyboard blaming. Have a nice life. asshole...
San guy
if you want to insult people and not look like grade school drop out stop using contractions. They confuse some people who say'your' when they mean 'you're'.
Another self-appointed English teacher. Do you shit ice cream? Or perhaps a poker chip up your ass. How much underwater r u big shot?
I finally figured it out. Your a true believer! In yourself. Do u get up in the morning and kiss the fuck'in mirror? U really take yourself seriously, don,t yea. I fact, your (thought you had me,huh) you're (happy now,asshole) fuck'in ego is so big, u don't use pencils w/ erasers because you don't make any mistakes . That figures since you shit ice cream.............. ps your, you're, u is, a jerk!........................Damm that was fun..........
Because Americans are, by and large, a mass of innumerate buffoons who can't multiply or divide by 9 as easily as 10.
Meanwhile in southern AZ I paid $3.49 $2.20 less and only a couple hundred miles away.
Long PSX. They are probably arbitraging the fuck out of this.
Helluva week:
Gas shortages beginning
Carriers and big deck amphibious warships amassing in the ME
Bank virus (Gauss) talk increasing
I"m sure I missed a few.
Yea, everything's normal; in the pipe five by five. Nothing to see move along.
Rumor has it the Iran invasion plan (document) was floating around the internet back in 2001 (probably pre 9/11)
PNAC <-- search
California is the future.
More regulations which allow higher prices.
Higher prices to bleed the middle class and enrich the elites.
"Shortages" to induce angst and panic, and calls for politicians to "do something".
Politicians to keep bleeding the assets of the post WWII generations and give nothing to the millenials and Always On generations while fomenting age based warfare.
"Forward" hoodies and legions of Progressive youth crushing the Constitution and the economy following in the foodsteps of Hitler, Mao, Stalin, etc.
It's actually only the middlemen who are being enriched by this, and that only lasts if they have inventory to hold out until the price drops, because if the have to restock, then their "windfall" is wiped out.
This isn't an elite-peon conflict, its a conflict between the basic laws of economics and the collective stupidity of elected leadership.
At $6.66 the prices will stabilize:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9hyjgV7o-0&feature=response_watch
This, Americans will stand for and accept.
But turn on TBS and see what Americans - both of the "red" and "blue" persuasion - won't put up with.
Greatest. Country. In. The. World.
There will only be riots and social unrest if sports games are involved.
Conan?
They are throwing away perfectly good beer. Or at least it's beer.
Fucking commodity speculative trading robot algorithims anyway. Wall street leeches. Greedy corporate petrochemical companies. First viable technology to compete head to head with these bastards, I hope will bury the bullshit jack the price for any reason motherfuckers in a grave marked " Obsolete Energy Ransom Artists " No other utility is allowed to game the shit out of their consumer market the way these leeches have been progressively allowed to do over the past few decades in particular. Fill their corporate graves with gasoline after tossing them in, and toss in a match. Vking Funeral - It's the least we can do. Live by the gas, die by the gas.
Wrap your face in cellophane and dive into a pool, preferably a pool with no water.
I already did that - it is called voting for an honest politician. You never hit bottom - there is none.
1985 Mercedes 300Ds run on peanut oil.
Wow just filled up @4.99! Woohoo, on my way to my first 5 buck gas fill up in a few days. In your face the rest of the nation, were #1. Yah Cali rules! We've even got Amazon charging us sales tax too! God I just love living here. Shit, all of you are just F'ing jealous. Now I'm going to go get drunk.
Miffed:-)
Yeah, and to just make 'em jealous, where I live in the Winter Home of the Great Satan, I pay naught for heating and cooling... Gas for hot water.... that's about it. Period.
Makes a difference from when I was East Coast, commuting in and out of the Great Shit Hole on the Island of Manhattan every day, paying a second mortgage for heating and air-conditioning.
Someone posted this on another thread on another day so I can't take credit:
"What are you doing still living in that shit hole!?!?"
I'm so drunk now so I shouldn't post but he'll what the fuck. Why do I still live here? Hmmmmm. Great question. Well I was born in San Fran in 1961. Moved to Malibu in 1970. Ojai in1973. In in1977 moved to Spokane,Wa and met mr miffed. Told him I wouldn't marry him unless he got a job in Cali. And the poor dumb schmuck did what I asked and we moved back to San Diego in 1982 and have be here ever since. Cali during those times we absolutely wonderful. This state was at the time was the envy of the nation and I have watched it spiral into the sewer for 3 decades. Don't blame me, I tried to stop it as many of my friends did as well, we were over run by the gimmies, the ivy tower acedemia, liberal power seekers and the unions. Why am i still here? Well at this point financially we cant escape yet but we are trying. Eventually when they tax us to a point where it is no longer worth living here we'll bail to the old family farm back in Washington. Cleaning calf pens would be truly preferable than shoveling the shit I do now. Let those assholes find someone else to bleed dry!
Miffed:-)
I hear you.
I lived in La Jolla when I was a kid, ~1975-1981, great place, unbeatable climate.
Sadly, the nation is on the path of California; sold out for the money grubbers and ideologues.
Aww, quit your whining, sober-up and count your blessings--it could be so much worse! You could live in Pakistan ( or Illinois). JK! Awesome post!
Your right. As I sit here on the porch with a splitting headache, watching the sun rise and the mist clearing to reveal the majestic scenery where we live, I am truly grateful for my life. Mr miffed made extra dark french roast to aid in the recovery. It is very cathartic to have a good rant at times over things you are powerless to change and then the things you cherish seem so much more vibrantly beautiful.
Miffed:-)