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$1.60 gas , lets go buy an SUV

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Kepler said:
So here's the thing. I have lived most of my life in humid places where 100 is torture. I've also been in the west in very dry places where 105 is quite pleasant, 110 is starting to push it, and 115 is challenging and you definitely want water with you at all times, and yet it is not at all that gross discomfort of humidity.

I've always wondered, what happens when you get to 120? Or 125? Does your body start doing weird sh-t? Do you just dry out so fast you need to wear those kegs hats only with water in them? Does it hurt?

So, what is the hottest you have ever been out in (not in an AC car) for at least 5 minutes? And what is that like?

Also, when I was in 115 in AZ you could not have paid me to drink -- the thought of alcohol would have been enough to give me get a heroin addict's cold shakes. I completely get why desert people stay away from alcohol -- it's why the Jews stayed away from pre-refrigeration pork. It's a trip to the emergency room before there were emergency rooms.
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mookie never goes out in shorts. always pants on. not for any reason other than locals do not and as an 'almost' employee of a gov ministry if mookie sees someone who recognizes mookie he doesn't want anything coming back about him. suit to work everyday cause it in the clients office. and to be honest with the low humidity mookie doesn't sweat. last weekend in dubai mookie had shorts on during the day, but when he was out at night he had pants on. very humid there.

most mookie walked was 15km one saturday. here there are water stations everywhere and mookie prolly filled up his bottle 14 times (along with stopping at mcdonalds for ice cream cones :) )
 
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mookie1995 said:
mookie never goes out in shorts. always pants on. not for any reason other than locals do not and as an 'almost' employee of a gov ministry if mookie sees someone who recognizes mookie he doesn't want anything coming back about him. suit to work everyday cause it in the clients office. and to be honest with the low humidity mookie doesn't sweat. last weekend in dubai mookie had shorts on during the day, but when he was out at night he had pants on. very humid there.

most mookie walked was 15km one saturday. here there are water stations everywhere and mookie prolly filled up his bottle 14 times (along with stopping at mcdonalds for ice cream cones :) )
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You still sweat, but since it's so dry, it's like insta-evaporation, IIRC.
 
Re: $1.60 gas , lets go buy an SUV

Stealing dxmnkd316's bit (but only going-back 2½-years, so it's not that bad!), everything old seems new again. The discussion in the Business thread prompted me to hunt-down and resurrect this thread.

Looking at Gas Buddy, we are fortunate to have what seems to be the lowest price in NY here in the Southern Tier, on-average hovering around $1.99/ga, and I have seen as low as $1.89 on my drives into work. Scanning Gas Buddy info, I have observed some places in mid-West coming-in at under $1/gallon!

It would be interesting to see what the cost per gallon is now in comparison to the 70's (and other "key" points in time), adjusted for inflation.

Then, just to put it all into perspective, this thread was locked at 1,000 posts in 2015. Enjoy (?) :eek:

Cheers!!!
~TTF
 
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Don't bet on gas going down by a lot even short term. The cost to refine is still about the same and is a pretty stable floor in gas prices. More interesting is what's going to happen to the gas station owners? A lot of these stations are franchises though it seems like an increasing share are owned by much larger companies. I'm not sure I've seen this discussed anywhere, but I can't imagine what's happening to the owners of these stores right now. At least the smaller chains.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
, but I can't imagine what's happening to the owners of these stores right now. At least the smaller chains.
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In Maine 40 to 60 cent margins, gas sales while down 50% is the only thing good about the C Store business right now. Margins in gas are considered good at 12 to 15 cents here
 
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I *had* to fill up on Fri, I was at 1/8th tank, and had some pickups to do, at $1.70. Today, it was $1.54.

DAMMIT!

I hear down in Lakeville (about 40 minutes south of me) it's around a buck/gallon. Stupid rich(er) ZIP codes. And I'm not kidding. The gas station right by my place in Minnetonka is usually 10 cents or so more expensive that the station (same company) by my workplace, 7 minutes away in Plymouth.
 
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We're at $1.33 about a mile down the road. There's another local under $1.40.
 
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Drove from LA to FL a week and a half ago. Most places were in the $1.60-$1.70 range along I-10/I-75.

Currently high $1.50's here around me.
 
Kepler said:
Apparently in the land of high gas excise taxes.
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Illinois would like to have a word. $1.89 in the west suburbs, nothing less than $2 in the Chicago city limits that I've seen yet.

RaceBorder can chime in with the south suburbs.
 
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