Month Thirteen: Oil Barons | Dad, How Did You Meet Mom?

[Sirious]

Where's my "totally going to only cost 20k electric Slate Truck" at

Oh

Original Goal: The company aimed for under $20,000 with incentives, but this has changed.

[Tymon]

I don't think current EV tech is ever going to gel with actual work trucks or the consumers who purchase them. I'm sure things will evolve over time and that will change but that time is not today.

[Tymon]

I read that that truck slashed everything to get the price down too. Doesn't have paint or any protection on the metal, no radio, no AC, nothing at all.

How many people are gonna say they'd give up all that just to have their truck not be gas? The whole point is supposed to be to make the switch seamless, if not an outright upgrade.

[Sirious]

It's very much not a work truck. Its a shit box that happens to be a truck. is electric. and isn't overprice tesla.

A KEI truck but not made in Asia.

[mallister]

Gas prices in the central valley were around $5.20 unless your stupid ass was buying from Shell. Did it go up $5 overnight?

Diesel looked painful at somewhere around $6.50 though.

[Karbuncle]

In my tiny little small town it was about 2.99 last weekish near the start of it all, and now its 3.49. Its going up a lot slower than other places but its definitely going up quick.

[Salodin]

I saw $3.99 in South Florida the other day. Diesel I've seen over $5. It won't be long before it's over $4, and once it passes that barrier I don't see why it wouldn't go all the way to $4.99 whenever they want

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[mallister]

Where is this $10 a gallon in CA coming from? Everything i can see says $5.50 or so average, with one place in the bay spiking at $7

[synistar]

Alaska and Hawaii are due to transport.

California has specific air quality laws and regulations that basically require the gas to be refined in state

And oil companies love jacking up the price when out of state refineries go down and not bringing it back to what it was prior.

Can't speak for Nevada, Arizona, or New Mexico or the other states though

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And the other thing is the California state gas tax has been finally indexed for inflation since 2020 (+ a one-time nominal increase to catch up) every July. Before that law, the gas tax was flat from 1994-2020 resulting in roads falling apart. For the most part California doesn't have toll roads. Exceptions: HoV/bridge tolls and local toll roads in certain counties like Orange.

Now I laugh that Pennsylvania has the 2nd most expensive state gas tax (CA @59.6cents vs PA @57.6 cents) and is $2 cheaper all because of the California gasoline blend. It probably switched to summer blend with this heat wave pushing prices higher because the refiners can do that.

[Salodin]

I mean, is this a psyop? We're talking like $5 gas is expected and normal, but that's horseshit. I was paying less than $2.30 not that long ago. For a moment there I wondered if it could hit $2.0 just cause of course it would under Trump cause this timeline blows

Instead we're here normizing $10 as the extreme and not what we're already paying.

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[Sirious]

Where is this $10 a gallon in CA coming from? Everything i can see says $5.50 or so average, with one place in the bay spiking at $7

It doesn't exist yet, are you ready for it to happen, was the original statement, as it's got no place to go but up, and up and up

[synistar]

And for your frame of reference, Costco gas in LA went from $4.09 on 2/23 to $4.59 on 3/6 to $5.17 today. With the California summer gas blend due out, unless Newsom delays the requirement, I won't be shocked at $6-$6.50/gal if this stupid war doesn't stop.

[mallister]

Ok that's my bad, $10 was bullshitting, it was Anoat saying it was $8 here.

It's not anywhere close to $8 a gallon average in CA. It's up about a dollar and change from what it was before, at least in the central valley.

Still awful and im sure it'll go higher.

[Byrthnoth]

Obligatory "Trump is helping EV adoption / fight climate change" take.

Nuclear war is really bad for the environment and odds are way up, though

[Melena]

And for your frame of reference, Costco gas in LA went from $4.09 on 2/23 to $4.59 on 3/6 to $5.17 today. With the California summer gas blend due out, unless Newsom delays the requirement, I won't be shocked at $6-$6.50/gal if this stupid war doesn't stop.

Out in suburbia hell for the east bay, it's pushing $7.00 for premium at shell/Chevron/Valero.

Surprisingly Costco isn't the cheapest in that area. That exon station at the top was 5.25 on credit yesterday.

Stupid fucking Acura



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[Milkster]

https://x.com/i/status/2034453527892791768

[Fiye]

I'm seeing $3.69 in central texas and lmao if we cross $4

Shit was $2.50 a month ago

[Elizara]

I'm checking a app about it and at a Chevron or two it's hit 4 bucks a gallon here in my area of GA. (No, it's not gasbuddy.)

Yipes, I'm sticking to the local Marathon for gas right now; At least that's among the cheaper options and it's still $3.54 a gallon.

[Dantrag]

https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=NC

$3.61 average in NC. Was 2.71 a month ago.

We went electric around 5 years ago or so. Luckily our provider hasn't tried to screw us over like Duke energy has.

[6souls]

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhg2bipaaa2y