Price Check in the Gas and Diesel Aisle...

Keeping my spare cans full, about once a month. $100 this trip.
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Properly timing that move is going to require a big brass pair. Looks like we've got the right man for the job.
$75 is my target. I’m of the impression that no amount of manufacturing can make up for several hundred million people per day NOT filling up fuel tanks.

Demand destruction happened. The only people who will be surprised about the coming depression will be the news and joe biden.
 
Drove to Dallas from Montana 3 weeks ago gas was 4.29 here lowest I paid 3.05 on the way.
Gas buddy helped a lot there were times we would go an extra 30 miles and save .20 cents a gallon...Diesel was 4.99 here lowest I seen was 4.49
Diesel is holding it's price up due to the onset of cold weather and people using home heating oil which is diesel.
 
An interesting position the ECB took:

The European Central Bank will not give short-term financing to European energy firms struggling through the energy crisis, sky-high prices, and margin calls on the derivatives markets, ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Friday.
“As far as the ECB is concerned, and the national central banks of the Eurosystem, of course we stand ready to provide liquidity to banks, not to energy utility firms,” Lagarde said at a news conference in Prague today, as carried by Bloomberg.
“In this current, very volatile environment, it’s important that fiscal measures be put in place to provide liquidity to solvent energy-market participants, in particular utility firms,” the ECB chief added.


 
Pay attention when the Traders back away... The Perfect Storm.

Institutional traders are selling their fuel positions at the fastest rate since early March as a slowdown looms over much of the world. This is the latest sign that worry about the world's immediate economic future is deepening as Europe faces a very real recession and the Fed risks stagflation in its fight with inflation.

 
Paid $2.999 for regular unleaded today outside of Knoxville, TN. Still cost me $50 on a half a tank. Discount card price shown. First time I've seen it this "cheap" in a long time.
 
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I’m betting it will go below $80 to help him save face.
I'm betting he won't refill it within the next 12 months. Winter is coming and the demand for heating oil will be greater this year than in previous years. I have friends who are hedging their bets by having a stock of fire wood, wood pellets, propane, heating oil, electric heaters and solar systems. They also have a standby (multi-fuel) generator.

The next time you pass your local county jail / regional prison..... Observe how much reserve fuel they have to run a generator.

Staying warm with a full belly is high on my list of priorities.
 
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Despite a solid job market in the U.S. and still a high level of economic activity, the financial markets – as seen in equity futures – point to higher chances of a major decline in the economic cycle, or a recession, over the next six months, Reuters’s senior market analyst John Kemp notes.
 
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No refunds

To be fair, if the engine in your $140k luxury gasoline powered car goes boom and needs replaced 10 years later, it isn't going to be cheap.

But yes, that is something that has to be considered when getting an electric vehicle, the batteries (at least any now on offer) will degrade and most designs don't offer easy swaps and even if they do, the batteries themselves are a very large part of the cost of the vehicle.

The battery technology today is hugely better than it was 10 years ago and it's kind of a well known thing that electric cars in the 10 to 15 years ago range are probably going to have iffy batteries. I suspect in another 10 years the batteries available then will be significantly better than the batteries today.

So if you are getting an all electric car, get the longest factory warranty you can and plan to trade it in at the end of the warranty.
 

California seeks to ban sales of diesel big rig trucks in bold bid to cut pollution​

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CA doubling down on stupid
"require that, by 2035, medium- and heavy-duty trucks entering ports and railyards must be zero emission and that state and local government fleets be so by 2027."
 
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