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The bolt features those LG chem pouch cells which are of questionable quality compared to the Panasonic cells.
The cyber truck not likely to show up for a few years yet and certainly not on budget, musk has a way of exaggeration. Almost guaranteed to rust in Hawaii after the coating is scratched through, unless it’s going to be 316 which it won’t be, it will rust. hopefully 305 with minor surface rust and pitting, if it’s 304 or worse expect more rust. We shall see how good the clear coat is, but it’s doubtful to be more durable then paint and clear. We shall see, maybe touching up the clear will be easy.
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LiFePO4 batteries have dropped so much in price that it is now cheaper to drop in a higher capacity aftermarket pack than to buy a refurbed NiMH pack for many older hybrids. Ends up boosting power output and MPGs!
Of course it's an extra cost, but I bought my hybrid used so I'm already way ahead on savings.
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03-14-2022, 08:03 PM
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Quote:Regular unleaded now $5.04 at Minit Mart.
Regular unleaded now $5.29 at Minit Mart.
TWO DAYS.
The price of oil has dropped 20% in the last week.
How's that two day matching supply and demand pricing working out for us on the downslope here in Puna?
As long as the oil companies have us pointing fingers in the wrong direction, tilting at (and blaming) windmills, blaming anyone other than the real culprits they'll play this game over and over and over again.
While they cash their subsidy checks from the federal government. Courtesy of you, the gas buying, tax paying public.
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You've got me all fired up HotPE. Where do we go (locally) with the pitchforks and torches? I keep hearing it's not the gas stations but the distributors and refiners. Does our gas come from Hawaii based distributors or refiners?
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all fired up… with the pitchforks and torches?
From what I understand, the independent gas station owners (like us) are also under the jackboot of distributors and refineries as you mentioned.
So this is a tough one.
We’d have to fly to the refinery on Oahu.
Drive to the distributor in Hilo.
All of that will burn fossil fuels. Then we need a non petroleum burning torch (solar powered?), and a non coal forged pitchfork (bamboo?).
Alas, for now perhaps we can just drive less, or as our mayor Mitch Roth suggested, mindfully?
If we all bought less gas, it would certainly get the attention of Big Oil. I look forward to the day when they will be referred to as Medium Oil, or better yet Small Oil.
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Certainty will be the death of us.
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Must be inflation, yeah that’s the ticket:
Oil & Avg Gas $ June 2008:
•Oil: $181.58/barrel
•Gas: $4.10/gallon
Oil & Avg Gas $ Mar 2022:
•Oil: $99.76/barrel
•Gas: $4.32/gallon
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03-15-2022, 04:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-15-2022, 04:42 AM by malahini.)
Current oil prices can be traced back to March 2020, like all of our current economic woes.
Oil companies were already in heavy debt due to the bust caused in 2015-2016. In March 2020 thanks to lockdowns oil went negative. People were literally paying others to take delivery of oil. The oil companies will be reeling from this for a long time to come.
As a result none of the big companies are going back into shale. They'd rather try to make back what they lost with high oil prices. It's only smaller private firms who are expanding shale now.
Supply chain woes can be traced to March 2020 also. The federal reserve response is driving inflation as well.
You have so many inflationary pressures at once now.
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Range anxiety? By 2024 EVs may be able to get a 100 mile charge in 5 minutes:
The company is at the advanced stages of developing groundbreaking semi-solid state technologies and targets mass manufacturing of its fast-charging battery cells, 100in5, which offer 100 miles of travel in five minutes of charging in 2024, then improve its charging abilities by 40 percent to three minutes by 2028 with 100in3, and finally achieving complete charging in two minutes by improving an additional 33 percent by 2032 with 100in2 batteries.
https://interestingengineering.com/store...-5-minutes
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Thanks for that link. That "Interesting Engineering" site is... very interesting!
