A good time to own an EV - Gas Prices about to go nuts [LOCKED DUE TO POLITICS]

[mkhuffman]

Every time I see "mandate" being used, I perceive it as regurgitation of biased talking point rather than a thought that's actually been thoroughly processed.

I disagree.

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[mkg3]

Well, Mike, I agree that this forum isn't the most appropriate for political discussions, I was replying to what I perceived as a request for data referenced in my previous post.

Sometimes the best move is simply to agree to disagree. With a thread dealing with gas prices, and given the interconnectivity of public policy, economics and politics, it is likely inevitable that those tangents will touch on the discussion (indeed, how could they not?) We can disagree on various subjects, but should keep those disagreements respectful.

Wow, go away for few hours from this forum and this has blown up....

To be clear, your perception that data was requested, for the record is misplaced. I was simply saying for YOU to look at the data.

As @mkhuffman already said, you were turning this into tax the rich kind of political discussion and not about gas price and prefacing by how civil all of us were. Yes we were all focused on the gas price situation, and not political discussion. Could easily gotten there if any of us let it - we did not until your post.

 

[DuoRivian]

Just a note on the Y2K issue, I worked on that project for the company I was employed by. All of the money and effort put into those projects is precisely why an issue did not happen. It was not wasted resources but required and exactly why there were only a few small issues at most companies and no major failures.

I was at a major pharmaceutical company that spent money going over every computer. I had colleagues who were at mid sized contract research organization that we use and they did none of the work my company did and had the exact same outcome - no issues. So while I can see Microsoft and others doing valuable work the large number of non tech companies that did work seems to have not been value add from my experience. Glad we didn’t have issues and not surprised IT professional tout how their work was super valuable (and it may have been).

Anyway back to cars as this is a Rivian forum.

 

[mkg3]

...back to the gas prices. There is high and then, there is high...

 

[mkg3]

I still own 2 ICEV, one with 17 gal (premium gas only) and the other with 18 gal (regular) tanks.

At this downtown LA station, I would have to pay $141 and $147 to fill up the tanks if completely empty. Luckily, I am nowhere near DTLA.

It's a good thing we fill up only once a month on a normal month. EVs (Rivian and Tesla) are our daily.

 

[Yossarian]

But but but it's a war to create peace. Like, the war to end all wars. We know how that went. The "good guys" think they're taking out the "bad guys". The "bad guys" think they are the "good guys". History repeats.

Gentlemen! You can't fight in here - this is the war room!

 

[SANZC02]

I was at a major pharmaceutical company that spent money going over every computer. I had colleagues who were at mid sized contract research organization that we use and they did none of the work my company did and had the exact same outcome - no issues. So while I can see Microsoft and others doing valuable work the large number of non tech companies that did work seems to have not been value add from my experience. Glad we didn’t have issues and not surprised IT professional tout how their work was super valuable (and it may have been).

Anyway back to cars as this is a Rivian forum.

I would not have expected smaller companies running PCs and micro/mini computers to have had issues. The problem was with the older main frames running code in COBOL or similar software and associated databases. Our ERP system was COBOL based and our system failures in the simulations we ran were a nightmare.

I would be very surprised if your major pharmaceutical company in the 90s would not have been one of the companies at high risk of failures.

I see your occupation is listed as IT, as we all know it is never a good thing when people talk about IT. That means something is broken….

 

[NY_Rob]

...back to the gas prices. There is high and then, there is high...

^^^ Yikes!

I put $20 worth in my jeep today... I paid $3.39/gal
Last time I put gas in the Jeep was 2/14, so pretty much a month ago, same gas station, it was $2.79/gal.

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

Yikes! I put $20 worth in my jeep today... I paid $3.39/gal
Last time I put gas in the Jeep was 2/14, so pretty much a month ago, same gas station, gas was $2.79/gal.

Most prices in LA for regular are $5~6. For some reason (publicity?) that particular station has a track record of being way higher than everyone else, even for a brief moment.

 

[FinalJump]

It's short term effect. Both oil and gas prices will drop before the summer driving season.

Most likely, but I still live with the memories of the 1970's gas crises. I'll be biting my fingernails until I get my T sometime this summer. We wouldn't even be in this mess if more of us drove EV's.

 

[FinalJump]

^^^ Yikes!

I put $20 worth in my jeep today... I paid $3.39/gal
Last time I put gas in the Jeep was 2/14, so pretty much a month ago, same gas station, it was $2.79/gal.

Just got done spending $5.49/gal in California. Not surprising/unexpected/horrifying, just is always expensive here. Can't wait to get off the juice for good.

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

Short term effect? fall by summer? Riiiight. I'll believe it when I see it. "Unconditional surrender". "[strikes] to go on indefinitely". "As long as it takes". "No war plan [for how it ends]". Funny but not funny.

Most likely, but I still live with the memories of the 1970's gas crises. I'll be biting my fingernails until I get my T sometime this summer. We wouldn't even be in this mess if more of us drove EV's.

Or have leadership that play with foreign affairs like a child does with toys in a toy box.

 

[Noplacelikeloam]

Decision to got to RIVN was when I filled my raptor up in 2022. The gas attendant looked at the total price and then looked at me and said "just look away, you dont want to know".

 

[Time2Roll]

Just a note on the Y2K issue, I worked on that project for the company I was employed by. All of the money and effort put into those projects is precisely why an issue did not happen. It was not wasted resources but required and exactly why there were only a few small issues at most companies and no major failures.

Unfortunately there is no control group that could have shown would not have happened if the issue was ignored.

 

[FinalJump]

Short term effect? fall by summer? Riiiight. I'll believe it when I see it. "Unconditional surrender". "[strikes] to go on indefinitely". "As long as it takes". "No war plan [for how it ends]". Funny but not funny.



Or have leadership that play with foreign affairs like a child does with toys in a toy box.

Zero arguments here.

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