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Pretty glad I drive an electric car right now.
Only half joking, but all of the new data centers raising energy prices are unfortunately coming for you too. Still way cheaper than the gas equivalent though.
Jokes on you, I've got an electric car and solar panels. Fuck the grid!
Hot damn I wish I could do that. We recently had our first semi serious look into solar for our place. Maybe someday.
Man I wish I could do that, but I'd be fucked come winter.
I currently have a fixed price deal. The price is not ideal, but it's bearable year-round and I don't use that much electricity in the summer when the market rate is cheaper.
If I had solar panels and wanted it to be connected to the grid (so I wouldn't have to run them on a separate circuit and could also sell back the excess), I'd be forced to the market rate package. Which in the winter can get ridiculously expensive. And it's not like there's a lot of sunshine here in the winter. 6 hours from sunrise to sunset and it's cloudy most days - and if it's not cloudy, it gets super cold and electricity demand goes up even more.
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If it gets expensive, I can always get solar. Once you pay for the initial investment of the equipment, it’s basically free energy for decades.
I want to say our estimated break even was about a decade at our current consumption. I definitely need to get more quotes and see what the market has to offer. It's 100% a bucket list item for me. My other hesitation is that I don't want to live in my state for another 10 years. I think that I'm probably stuck here, but I feel once I pull that trigger, I've sealed my fate. My family and my wife's are relatively near by, and while I'd move tomorrow if I could and budget for flights back, my wife does not feel the same.
I want to say our estimated break even was about a decade at our current consumption.
That calculation also likely assumes electricity prices stay the same for a decade. If electricity prices increase, your payback date arrives sooner.
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You're still affected by this as nearly everything you buy was transported on a truck.
You’re still affected by this as nearly everything you buy was transported on a truck.
Also, Californians pay 3x the national average for electricity too.
The thing is EV owners have more money left for food.
Or, in my case, cyclists - a am mid-fifty now, and never hada car. When I feel the need to smile, I sum up the money I have saved this way.
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Ha. Try 2.40/litre ($11/gallon) in Norway.
True, but density, public transportation, social services, and electrification are very different in much of the US. Fuel prices hit differently depending on where you live in the world.
True, our fuel prices are way higher here in Europe, but we have a solid public transportation network, we have walkable cities and in countries like Norway the EVs are the majority.
From everything I've seen about US cities and American friends I talk to, for most people, if you don't have a car you can't get to work. That is a thought that is hard to process for Europeans.
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Something you may have glossed over if you don’t live in California: March is when the state begins to the switch to “Summer-blend” (a mix of spealized petroleum with 10.5% to 15% ethanol) which is required to be available by April 1 and until October 31. The price of gas was going to increase regardless.
Us$5 a gallon? That's almost Canadian prices. Just a little higher and that's our day-to-day.
California taxes gasoline a lot compared to other states. It’s usually 2$ more than Texas
Sure, but it only taxes a gallon $0.50 more than Texas.
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That is a brutal price to see. Wow.
Give it a couple days, its $5....so far....
Allowing for currency conversion it's USD8.23 / gallon here in Victoria, Australia.
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I passed a station that was over $5.50 on my way to a $5/gallon pump (it was just a block away, thank goodness for 7/11). I imagine that average is going to go WAY up.
We destroy our land and will never reap the 'benefits'.
Just paid $4.89, and that's at the cheapest gas station I know of for 20 miles. It's 5.50 ish around me for the most part.
Dang the summer blend fuel is gonna be north of $6 gallon then.
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