[EDNY]

Plan to attend a handgun match the last week of May in Columbia, MO and gasoline prices are beginning to concern me. 

Right now:   Gas in Champlain, NY is 3.79 gal
                   Vermont 3.64 gallon (.15 cheaper just 2 miles from Champlain)

                    Diesel in VT $4.14

May is a long way off!

[chopper526]

Yes, gas around here is starting to creep up, up about .10 since Christmas, around 3.59.9

[sixball]

Regular was $3.59 yesterday. It has actually gone down some. It is worse in Carson City & Reno. Go Branden!

[TFoch]

$3.30 to $3.40 around me.

[EDNY]

This click and display map appears pretty accurate?

https://www.gasbuddy.com/gaspricemap?lat=39.02645658952957&lng=-96.591588&z=4

[Rattiac]

We've scaled back our trips this year. A bit closer to home and staying away from overcrowded southern Utah.
Joe is a burden.

[TFoch]

$3.30 to $3.40 around me.

One of the stations I drove by again went up 20 cents a gallon since yesterday.

[EDNY]

This administration is really pushing electric cars even though we are not ready for them. If they are so great...Americans will buy them, let the cars sell themselves. 

[sixball]

It will be interesting to watch people choose between heating and lighting their homes or charging their cars. Where are Americans who park on the street going to charge their cars? The cables won't reach 1/2 block and would not be there the next morning.

We recently had a loner Jeep Wrangler that after several hours of charging had a 20 mile electric range. We had to agree to pay $500 if the charging cable was lost or stolen. Every one of those cars will carry one of these theft targets even the ones in places where people are now leaving their cars unlocked in the hope that less damage will be done by thieves. Now homeless people will not just be forcing drivers to pay them to wash the windshield they just soiled they will he standing at the charging stations renting you your cable. A whole new industry with millions more employed. By the way none of the copper, lithium, rare earths,.....that go into these has to be mined? At least it isn't talked about. Go Branden!

[themoose]

Not only do we have all of the issues that have already been mentioned but one of the biggest obstacles will be dealing with the millions of used batteries that will go into the waste stream. Regardless of what the politicians and environmentalist say we are far from being able to safely deal with this issue on any sort of a large scale not to mention the cost to the EV owner to maintain the battery system. Take a look at the link below to get a dose of reality as far as these systems are concerned.

[size=78%]https://www.science.org/content/article/millions-electric-cars-are-coming-what-happens-all-dead-batteries[/size]     

[sixball]

Just over the hill from here (maybe 5 miles) is the Tesla Giga Factory where they mostly make batteries in  near secrecy. It is located in TRIC (Tahoe Regional Industrial Center) the largestest industrial park in the US. It has virtually no environmental restrictions. The Tesla building is huge & very deep like a skyscraper under ground to contain spills and slow their leakage into the Truckee river basin. Other businesses i the park are feeder plants to and fro Tesla. One new one is a battery recycler. Tesla got millions from the feds and the state of Nevada. They pay little or no taxes. They promised much and have delivered nothing. Elon Musk is the new P. T. Barnum. Nevada is rich in lithium so I don't expect to get better soon. Green Energy? Then there are the wind turbine blades that must be replaced on a set schedule that can not at this time be recycled.

[EDNY]

Not only do we have all of the issues that have already been mentioned but one of the biggest obstacles will be dealing with the millions of used batteries that will go into the waste stream. Regardless of what the politicians and environmentalist say we are far from being able to safely deal with this issue on any sort of a large scale not to mention the cost to the EV owner to maintain the battery system. Take a look at the link below to get a dose of reality as far as these systems are concerned.

[size=78%]https://www.science.org/content/article/millions-electric-cars-are-coming-what-happens-all-dead-batteries[/size]   

Kinda like the wind turbine blades...being buried:

https://stopthesethings.com/2020/05/13/the-big-cover-up-wind-industry-burying-millions-of-toxic-turbine-blades-in-landfills/

[TFoch]

As I passed my local gas station and saw the price was up to $3.99 a gallon I went to my log book in my van and in March of 2020 I paid $1.99 a gallon.  And I bet $3.99 isn't the end of it!

[sixball]

It is $4.09 at Smith's here. It is $4.62 In Reno. Yesterday it was $4.49. $4.29 in Carson City. We'll see $6 or better before summer. This has more to do with Biden than Putin.  Go Branden!

Now $4.39 at Smith's I a few hours. it has gone up 3 times today!. $9.01 in Sacramento.

[EDNY]

Stopped by our local Mobile...kerosene and diesel went up .65 in one day!  In Vermont regular was $4.09 last week...but $3.91 this week?  Nearly all stations in upstate NY are over $4.09

Coldest Winter up here in years...and at the worst time.  Can't feel sorry for myself watching what the folks are going through in the Ukraine.