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Patrick says

It will be interesting to see what they do with their 3-digit signs when gas goes over $10/gallon.

Maybe they will start selling it by the liter.

They will probably tape a big plastic "1" to the left of the price, maybe covering the dollar sign

It will be a great opportunity to hang "I did that" bidet signs.

clambo says

I predict gasoline to reach $8/gallon in the near future.

I wonder what Buttpirate will say?

Democrats will insist that $8/gallon gas is fine, because that is what they pay in Europe.

B.A.C.A.H. says

There are a few, like the guy in Chicago area who attacks me, calls me out, calls me names, thinks he's inside my mind that I cannot stand the fact he likes to fly

I presume you're talking about me? I don't believe I've ever called you a name. I have and will continue to say that flying is not a luxury. It's not. It's a necessity.

You have great thoughts here, so please don't presume I dislike you. We just disagree on flying. On most my flights it's not people jet setting to luxury. They're working. Visiting family. Maybe going to the funeral for their mom or something in a tube with no leg room. Mine is mostly leisure admittedly. I live life once. I want to explore, show my kids the world and cool places. Flight allows for that.

Also you guys on the West Coast don't have to fly often because you already have beautiful weather. There's no point. So I can see where you think it's frivolous. Saturday here in March was 25º for a high. It's dark. Sometimes you need an outlet to escape for mental health and well being. I probably wouldn't fly if I lived in CA. That said, I'm not going to piss away more income taxes, property values and other various things to move to CA. Honestly as an outsider, living in CA (politics aside) is a luxury most can't afford. It's more ridiculous than flying 5-7 times a year.

socal2 says

I got a Model Y dual motor. Ordered it back in August and it arrived in January. The thing is a spaceship! The speed, acceleration, torque, regenerative breaking (especially the regen breaking!), infotainment/audio system, autopilot (didn't get FSD). Can't imagine the acceleration in the Performance model let alone the Plaid, it is already crazy fast for a mid-range model.

All American car made by a company with a non-woke CEO like Musk.

@socal2
are there things you dont like on the model Y? I am debating if I should go with the model 3 or the Y.
I watched a review video and they complained about the collision avoidance assist. Does your Y sometimes brake for no apparent reason because the cams get confused?

Patrick says

https://notthebee.com/article/buckle-up-biden-expected-to-announce-ban-on-all-russian-oil-today-sending-gas-prices-skyrocketing-even-higher?source=patrick.net

If we only buy 2-3% Russian oil… it shouldn’t affect our prices. But it’s gone through the roof. I paid 95 yesterday to fill up. Used to be 43 average with Trump. We getting fucked here with Biden

https://youtu.be/yoDJJJj1Mzo?source=patrick.net

I drive a Lexus sedan… filled up $103 today at $6/gal in the tri valley. That was a shocker.

https://notthebee.com/article/californians-are-crossing-the-border-to-mexico-to-fill-up-on-cheap-gas?source=patrick.net

Sick of paying nearly $6 for a gallon of gas?

Just head on down to Tijuana, where prices are nearly $2 cheaper per gallon.

The trip will pay for itself!

A dozen miles south [of Chula Vista], just across the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, regular gas sells for an average of $3.96 a gallon — nearly $2 less than in California.

Patrick says

Pressler does more for MAGA than the entire RNC.

Patrick says

https://notthebee.com/article/californians-are-crossing-the-border-to-mexico-to-fill-up-on-cheap-gas?source=patrick.net

Sick of paying nearly $6 for a gallon of gas?

Just head on down to Tijuana, where prices are nearly $2 cheaper per gallon.

The trip will pay for itself!

A dozen miles south [of Chula Vista], just across the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, regular gas sells for an average of $3.96 a gallon — nearly $2 less than in California.

If spending 2-4 hours in the border queue on the way back is your idea of fun.

I believe USD demand is going to throw off lots of traders due to the fact it will take a massive # of USDs to unwrap the leverage that exist in
commodity shorts, metals and oil particularly. Due to a lack of non-discretionary dollars for the time being metals and crypto go sideways with more
odds of going down some while leverage that was used to short is slowly being pulled out and becomes dry powder to in time reinvest long provoking big
moves to the upside. Both gold and btc have very strong floors gold 1840+/- and btc 40k+/- which imo have tall odds of price being tested in those areas . The same for
oil dipping in price with the fact trader short leverage came in strong at >125 and then Bidens oil drain of US reserves taking oil to it's floor of $85+/- a barrel.

JPY is a main player in shorting commodities and it's weakness kind of indicates that leverage is slowly being closed. In the mean time I am very much looking
for the USD index to reach min. 101+/- and possibly 104+/-. The commodities are approaching the line at the christmas tree for the USD to pop to it's top
then it's epic crash and commodities enter it's epic super cycle. The commodities super cycle will only come if/when USD makes it's final approach to the upside
and imo it has not done so. Although this chart was plotted more with the idea of crypto moves it applies to commodities in general.

So with the shorts and supply chain issues USD is more fundamentally and technically setup to make a run up not dump as soon as many think. Same for S&P
which likely stays sideways but in time becomes another target of money flow when/while the exodus of USD takes place.

Eric Holder says

Patrick says

https://notthebee.com/article/californians-are-crossing-the-border-to-mexico-to-fill-up-on-cheap-gas?source=patrick.net

Sick of paying nearly $6 for a gallon of gas?

Just head on down to Tijuana, where prices are nearly $2 cheaper per gallon.

The trip will pay for itself!

A dozen miles south [of Chula Vista], just across the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, regular gas sells for an average of $3.96 a gallon — nearly $2 less than in California.

If spending 2-4 hours in the border queue on the way back is your idea of fun.

or just move out of California. I paid $3.52 yesterday, my entire fill-up was less than $40.

Goran_K says

Eric Holder says

Patrick says

https://notthebee.com/article/californians-are-crossing-the-border-to-mexico-to-fill-up-on-cheap-gas?source=patrick.net

Sick of paying nearly $6 for a gallon of gas?

Just head on down to Tijuana, where prices are nearly $2 cheaper per gallon.

The trip will pay for itself!

A dozen miles south [of Chula Vista], just across the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, regular gas sells for an average of $3.96 a gallon — nearly $2 less than in California.

If spending 2-4 hours in the border queue on the way back is your idea of fun.

or just move out of California. I pa...

Or just stop sweating the small stuff.

It's bad, but not too bad in IL. Had just under 1/4 tank and it was $92 to fill up yesterday. I drive basically the largest non-utility vehicle, truck or van you can drive. I don't blink as we make that in less than an hour, but yeah, my fill ups are at least 30-40% higher. It's nuts.

This is a massive tax on the poor and middle class. It's sad because I know people that are getting burned by this. We need to stop worrying about being "green" and let the market work itself out. I know there's been issues with oil, but does it matter? The huge BP leak in the Gulf of Mexico. That was near one of my favorite places on the planet. There is no difference 10 years later or whatever it has been. A fuck ton of oil was spewing out and the beaches look the same as they always have.

There's micro and macro. On a micro level, sure, some birds and other fish and wildlife got fucked up. But they'll recover. Macro, it's like dropping a penny in a 100k gallon swimming pool. No one will notice it.

We need to be energy independent. That's pretty much reason 1 or 2 that most conflicts arise from. Resources and or profits to get said resources to other people willing to pay for it.

RWSGFY says

Or just stop sweating the small stuff.

Easy for us to say.

A lot harder for someone living in SoCal, making $15 an hour and has a 1 hour commute to work everyday.

Goran_K says

A lot harder for someone living in SoCal, making $15 an hour and has a 1 hour commute to work everyday.

Can you even live in CA for under $25/hr? I did the math and our family would need about $150/hr. We make that much, but had no interest in giving it to the state of CA or a modest house for $1M+ pretty much anywhere.

Welcome back. Been a while or I may have missed your return.

WookieMan says

Goran_K says

A lot harder for someone living in SoCal, making $15 an hour and has a 1 hour commute to work everyday.

Can you even live in CA for under $25/hr? I did the math and our family would need about $150/hr. We make that much, but had no interest in giving it to the state of CA or a modest house for $1M+ pretty much anywhere.

Welcome back. Been a while or I may have missed your return.

Yeah first day back in a while. Decided I’d check up on the old Patrick membership and it seems like things have stayed the same over the past 2 years. 😂

I think $25/hr would be a struggle in CA but I am thinking your average non-college educated Panda Express cook who makes $15-$17 an hour. Can’t afford an electric car.

$7/gallon gas would be devastating to their budget.

Goran_K says

$7/gallon gas would be devastating to their budget.

For sure. It's a tax on the poor and middle class. Biden claims to be helping them. Up is down though now. Morons will believe them even as people are jumping ship in the admin and Hunter's shenanigans are back in the spotlight. Worst POTUS in my short lifetime, that's for sure.

WookieMan says

Biden claims to be helping them. Up is down though now. Morons will believe them even as people are jumping ship in the admin and Hunter's shenanigans are back in the spotlight. Worst POTUS in my short lifetime, that's for sure.

I'm 1/2 a century old. I wouldn't consider my life that short, and without any question Biden is the worst president in my lifetime.

My parents thought Carter was the worst, they are in the 80's and I know without any doubt they consider Biden the worst in their lifetime. My grandmother thought Carter was the worst in HER lifetime, despite being a democrat, remembering FDR fondly..

If we had an honest election system, and we don't, I think Biden would be the death knell of the Democratic party. He might be anyhow. If my grandmother was still alive, she won't still be a democrat today with all it's craziness. I was sympathetic to the party until it was shown Obama was a clear Neocon and the entire establishment of the party was on board with that. They lost a lot of people when they sunk Sanders - not that I think Sanders would have been a good president, but he SEEMED like Carter - a nice person that was over his head.

I think Carter got handed a bad situation. Volker is the one that got inflation under control, but it wasn't Carter's fault we had runaway inflation, it was really Nixon that did that by abandoning the gold standard, and that was really the Fed that forced that.