10-11-2021, 04:45 AM | #101 |
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Maybe they should wait on all their 'banning' until the alternatives are fully developed, in use, and accessible/affordable for all. I don't know how much electric a mower would use to do my place the whole season, but it takes about 2.5 gallons of gas. Doesn't seem like a significant amount to be concerned with. How much fuel is spent shipping products from China in a year? We didn't used to do that at all.
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10-11-2021, 05:40 AM | #102 |
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I had an electric mower once. I got sick of pulling the cord 50 times on my old POS gas mower to get it to start. I thought it would be nice to just flip a switch and go.
Nope. It would trip the breaker constantly and I always had to watch to make sure that I didn't run over the cord. It was worse than the old one. I did have better luck with an electric weed eater. My gas weed eater would never start back up if you shut it off. I don't do yard work anymore.
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Wish I would have bought electric instead. When I was a kid, my dad got an electric mower. Told me to be careful you don't run over the cord. I didn't. He did.
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10-11-2021, 03:19 PM | #104 | |
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I really don't do yard work. I have a gardner. It looks like hard work. No thanks. I used to do a lot of yard work. But that was just to get out of the house and away from my ex wife.
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10-11-2021, 04:41 PM | #105 |
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Mowing the grass ain't all its cut out to be...LOL!
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10-11-2021, 05:14 PM | #106 |
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Non ethanol regular was $309.9 just now and I paid $329.9 for non ethanol 91 octane.
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10-11-2021, 05:22 PM | #107 | |
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The tax on gas here in central Ohio is $0.58, IIRC the percentage that goes to the Feds is less than half.
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10-11-2021, 05:27 PM | #108 |
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Fill-up
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Then they will disallow the use of them later.
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10-11-2021, 07:50 PM | #110 |
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I drove my truck to get the vital fluids circulated last week. I put in $50, and got just over 10 gallons. $4.83 a gallon.
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10-11-2021, 08:20 PM | #111 |
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3.19 reg 3.99 non ethonal hightest
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10-11-2021, 09:35 PM | #112 |
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Forget about Joy at the pump Boys and girls…
$127.00 to fill my company truck today…
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10-12-2021, 05:22 AM | #113 |
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The cost never changes for me at the pump. It always costs $75. What I've noticed is I don't seem to go as far now
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10-16-2021, 11:58 AM | #114 |
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I saw mention on tv of the small motors ban in Cali the other day and they gave a "statistic" that was so unreal it's nuts. They said using a gas powered leaf blower 30 minutes produced the same amount of emissions as driving a small car 3800 miles or something like that. I don't know.
Were they smokin when they came up with that or what? Oh, reg gas $2.84 here today.
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10-16-2021, 02:00 PM | #115 |
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I live in Northern Ca. Yesterday 10/15/21 I filled my truck with Premium at the local Chevron
$5.05. 12 gal $60. Good thing I’m retired and don’t drive that much anymore
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10-16-2021, 03:05 PM | #116 |
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Filled my DD yesterday $3.09 Gallon in Knoxville up a $1.00 a gallon this year ,
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10-16-2021, 07:47 PM | #117 |
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7 days later reg 3:39 non ethonal 4.19.
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10-16-2021, 08:08 PM | #118 |
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Big average here now.
$2.89 to $3.20.
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10-17-2021, 02:41 AM | #119 |
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$5.01 here today. And my Jeep gets lousy mileage for a 6 cylinder.
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10-17-2021, 06:05 AM | #120 | |
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I've seen $309.9 all week at a variety of stations that I wouldn't have thought offered the same price. I wondered if the El Cheapo place I use would be any cheaper. It was $289.9 the week before. I bought gas Thursday and forgot to cheap the price
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10-17-2021, 09:03 AM | #121 |
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I found it very hard to believe too so I did a quick google and found this info. This is what I got a glimpse of the other day.
I know this is heading away from the cost of gas today topic but it is related. [Distilling the above results, the four-stroke Ryobi leaf blower kicked out 6.8 times more NOx, 13.5 times more CO and more than 36 times more NMHC than the Raptor. The two-stroke leaf blower was worse still, generating 23 times the CO and nearly 300 times more NMHC than the crew cab pickup. Let's put that in perspective. To equal the hydrocarbon emissions of about a half-hour of yard work with this two-stroke leaf blower, you'd have to drive a Raptor for 3,887 miles, or the distance from Northern Texas to Anchorage, Alaska. Clearly, engine displacement plays little part in the concentrations of these pollutants. Consider that the Fiat 500 produced more than double the NOx and more than three times the hydrocarbons of the truck. A close look at the vehicles' underhood emissions labels sheds further light — the Fiat 500 is classed as LEV-II, whereas the Raptor in California trim is ULEV-II. The Raptor's emissions control equipment is simply more capable. It's only in the production of carbon dioxide (CO2) — not yet directly regulated by EPA or CARB — where the Raptor is the higher emitter.] Here is the complete comparison report. It appears those little off road engines are nasty little dudes. https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/...af-blower.html
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10-17-2021, 09:30 AM | #122 |
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Cars have catalytic converters. Small engines do not. IMPO the comparison falls under the fear mongering umbrella to support their narrative...and is, therefore, void.
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10-17-2021, 10:17 AM | #124 |
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It's going for $3.25 to 3.59 here in Southern Mi...
42% higher than a year ago across the board they say.
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10-18-2021, 07:27 PM | #125 |
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Just did $4.45 per gallon.
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