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Oxygeny
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Oh snap, son....
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cheap
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Just paid $4.099 to fill up my rental in Oakland.
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That’s not good. That’s what I pay for premium
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I wish gas was that affordable up here
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Um, I WAS filling up a Toyota, a '91 Corolla...
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Fortunately, mine is a mere mortal car...
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Energy dominance!
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You are in Australia, correct? What part of the continent?
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Were you by the airport? That’s a normal
security
charge for the convenience of
protecting you from going to
actual
Oakland.
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The recession reckoning, it’s coming. ;)
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south west Victoria.
city of Ballarat (postcode/zipcode 3350)
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I was indeed close by, but the cheapest gas I’ve seen anywhere in the Bay Area while here was $3.799. At the gas station by my hotel in the eastern suburbs it was $4.149. I did go into the actual Oakland for a bit. Didn’t get shot or mugged. Did see some sketchy characters hanging around.
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Still better than paying the rental agency by the “estimated gallons at $5/gallon” or whatever.
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Oooh, free fuel!
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I think it was $11/gallon here. And yeah it goes “needle just below full, we charged you for a quarter tank which is 8 gallons.” “This compact has a 6 gallon tank.” “Our system says it is a full size and holds 32 have a nice day sir.”
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I maintain that fuel prices should be a lot higher across the board, but that does seem high (my last fill up was $3/gallon for premium).
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NUT
pics?
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No doubt that when it does come, it will be a better recession because we are winning . And the Republicans will cheer President Trump and blame some Democrat. And the president will fire some people.
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How much for frule in your neck of the woods? Whereabouts are you, anyhow? Ireland, do I recall?
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Got it. Melbourne-ish, southeastern.
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I tend to feel the same, but then again, I am a Liberal and given to such delusion.
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Where are you again? Everything is creeping above 4 around here.
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Yes, and about €1.40 per litre, no choice of octane (it’s all 95 RON). Diesel’s a little less.
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Base model. 235,000 miles. I like driving it with the windows down and my Bose QC headphones on.
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San Francisco Bay Area, Castro Valley, Ca, 94546
That is some of the least expensive gas in the Bay Area. And it was up $0.04/gallon today.
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$6/gallon is expensive. Then again, I can drive over 500 miles and still be in California. FWIW... But the relative vastness of the U.S. is a different thing than Europe.
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Gotcha. My local, reasonably priced shell just went up this morning (or last night) and crossed $4 for regular. Diesel was hovering around
$
3.50 but went to over $
4 this month too.
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I don’t think I’ve yet paid over $4/gal.
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I’m driving to Fresno next Tuesday to have lunch with another Oppo and whilst there, I’m going to look at his ‘84 Cressida. 5MGE inline-six Supra engine. Let’s talk about automotive arousal. Drift that puppy. And I’ll probably drive the Corolla because I like driving it. The Corolla is my Sunchaser.
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Luckily I only need to fill up the VW about once a month, and I haven’t driven the 348 in a while so my fuel
bill has been low. I need to take the 348 out of hibernation so that will probably double or triple my monthly fuel bill lol
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Wait: isn’t 348 a Ferrari number?
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Have you had your first engine-out tuneup yet?
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Yeah, did it a year early because the water pump was leaking. I had the money saved so it wasn’t the end of the world. The shop did a lot of “while you are in there stuff” and fixed a lot of things that were done improperly so I’m sort of glad I did it early, even though my maintenance fund has still not recovered. Oh well, I think I’m going to do it myself the next time, in 5 years. Even if I don’t, the service should be about half the cost since I was proactive on so many things this time. Hopefully.
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Where do you live, approximately?
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South Bay area of LA
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What’s your line of work?
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I’m a mechanical engineer with an understanding of fluids, pumps, and their systems. I’m one of the like, 10 engineers in the area that isn’t in aerospace, automotive, or a startup lol
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I have a friend who is a computational scientist with a couple of PHds who works designing pumps for the fracking industry. Finite element analysis and such. They are a family of geniuses. Amazing people, brilliant and funny and caring and very warm.
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Oh nice! I wish I did more CFD. I do low energy stuff and a lot of brewery applications so CFD/FEA isn’t super important. Back when I was in oil and gas, working with pumps in the thousands of HP range, efficiency and strength were much more important lol.
They don’t happen to work for Halliburton, do they? I never did anything with fracking, but I am familiar with boosting well production .
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To the west of Melbourne not east
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Yes.