Largest Price increase you have seen ?

[kalianna]

Or:
I just pay $3 more when I fill up my tank once a month and be grateful that gas is available.

[kalakoa]

We also import everything (including tourists, our primary industry) in oil-powered transportation and burn oil to make electricity.

I think this means we're at higher risk.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

oil-powered transportation and burn oil to make electricity.

If only Hawaii had a leader, or had leaders with a vision that perhaps geothermal, solar, and wind power would benefit our citizens more than a few loud kooks and anti-everything social media warriors, who for instance use cell towers and electricity to argue against cell towers and electricity.

[kalakoa]

Hawaii also needs to grow its own food. This is completely impractical from a purely economic standpoint -- but only if no value is placed on "food security". We can just keep importing bananas from Ecuador ... until we can't.

['elepaio]

Well golly gee wilikers Kalianna, you have solved the problem! Just pay more and be thankful.

Between you and HOTPE 1982 Economics we will be saved.

You DO remember we were energy independent, with lower priced, pretty much everything less than a year and a half ago right ? Also no wars.

So yeah, we need strong leadership, lets start from the top eh ?

[Rob Tucker]

Good time to buy an electric car perhaps...

[kalakoa]

If you also have enough solar panels to charge it, otherwise you're just burning the fossil fuels elsewhere.

Oahu gets something like 20% of its power from a coal-fired plant.

The irony is painful.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

otherwise you're just burning the fossil fuels

I spoke with a neighbor, one who’s intelligent enough to calculate numbers (not spout random talking points from a year & a half ago), and she (the intelligent numbers oriented person) calculated that their electric car costs $20 a month less to drive than a comparable gas powered vehicle.  She let me drive it, it’s incredibly quiet and fast, and that was before she hit the Turbo Mode button.  Then it really flew.

['elepaio]

Can she get to Kona and Back or have to charge again over there !? Or twice a day ? Need a second car in case of emergency ? Try wait. 20 bucks is nothing when it comes to time. This sounds like a parody but i think you're serious.

IMO

[Rob Tucker]

We do have a geothermal facility here in Puna.