How much is your local "Trump at the Pump Tax?"

Standard petrol price is down to $1.74AUD / ltr here now .... but we have a long weekend approaching and this being a tourist town, it will go up for the 4 days or so, then return to what ever the going price is then ......

T1 Terry

 

I believe that is all possible here, and I don't see why a V2L would be treated differently than a stationary battery or generator. It is the affect of regulations I'm clueless about, which will vary by region.

Zoning might require grid hook up here. I'll look into it when the time comes to get a battery.

Since the physical penny is gone, I want digital transactions to move to using the mil.

 

It’s sales tradition not to round up the penny to make the first number stay small. For some reason it does work on the brain to make it seem less. Like now, the 47 tax increase price at the pump is 5.89, 5.99, which seems less than $6 because it’s more a reaction than thinking. If you think, it’s about the same. Like 47 supporters will react “ no pain no gain” or “it’s just for awhile” or the worst “I see $1.89.”

 

Sure, but they can still do that with the last penny on the price - and they usually do.

 

So we need a marketer or AI to explain why most signs of things for sale end with a 9.

 

Plenty of people simply don't see the cents portion of a listed price. $9.99 is processed as $9, which lower to them than $10. It is enough of the population that when JCPenny went to whole dollar pricing and dropped the $.99, it back fired.

 

Costco here is back under $4/gal.

 

lookup speedway affect, it’s $3.79 here but… that may only be a sign of the speedway affect at work

 

AAA is showing multiple States are now in the $3 range this AM :

AAA Fuel Prices

..... with the poor slobs in Calif still hitting nearly $6

 

When prices go up so much, people drive less. It takes awhile as their credit cards come due. Then prices come down a bit. Until 2026, presidents have had little to do with oil prices. Not in 2026, it was all his fault.

 

Not being familiar with "Speedway effect", I did have to look it up.

The Speedway chain has no meaningful presence in my normal travel region, and the price pattern it causes is not present in gas price history charts here. It appears that Ohio is likely the most afflicted area:

 

strategic oil reserves at lowest point in 40 years.

inflation opposite.

debt increasing at an historical rate.

I'm not worried about gas prices

 

We are living off oil reserves from several countries, it's going to be a delayed crash. I think part of this whole war thing is to drag down China but don't think it's going to work because they have diversified energy especially coal. Either way Israel is screwed, it's just the hardliners that are pushing this, their military is against it because they know it's unwinnable. Israel has been successfully bombed unlike any time in their history. Another thing that's screwed is the US oil dollar. All the Arab countries are figuring out that the USA is a paper tiger now that the modes of war have shifted to drones. 13 of our bases surrounding Iran have been damaged and mostly abandoned, not only did they threaten Iran they were protecting the Arabs and Israel. We lost 50 planes in a matter of weeks, unprecedented compared to decades before. On the bright side the House just voted to end the war, surprising considering they are de facto controlled by Israel.