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Couple month rental and the hassle of a rental is not worth it vs spending $5k and buying a cheap Chinese one. Harbor freight and Amazon has most of what is needed in stock to fix as needed.

What makes you think I’m only about EV’s?

Every auction house quarterly and monthly have these. Same auctions will sell the container vans as single trips vans. These vans come in packed to the brim with stuff

Lots of great deals on the auctions. Picked this little gem up on the very cheap. About 2300 lb machine immediately changed the engine oil, hydraulic oil, and pulled the fuel bowl and suprisingly it was junk free in the carb bowl. Greased the hell out of it. Had to get into the valve body and move some lines to switch it from ISO to SAE controls. Added a couple fans as online says they will run pretty darn hot and vapor lock and boil fuel. May add a hydraulic cooler in the future and a normal hydraulic filter setup. overall tear apart and putting it back together it is fairly nice quality at the price point.

Should let them sell them here on the cheap if they meet our safety standards. I think BYD is opening a plant in Mexico and they will be able to sell them cheap in Mexico and Canada I believe. Nothing wrong with Cheap transportation with a 100k mile warranty that the poor and middle class can buy. Better, more reliable and cheaper to run then a clamped out VW Jetta or ford fiesta they are in now.

They may be more inclined and manageable if they could buy a new $12,000 EV after tax credit with 100,000 mile warranty. We are likely talking under $200 a month for a 200 mile range BYD that never needs oil changes or much maintenance. the US auto market gave up on these cause they couldn’t make enough profits off Chevy sparks, ford fiestas/focus and dodge darts. So it would be like these cheap Chinese EV’s would compete with the rest of the US market.

Oh and I think they should allow certain Chinese EV’s if they meet our safety standards and under a certain MSRP cap. No US auto manufacture want to dabble in the cheap vehicle category so poor people are kind of fucked by our YS auto market currently. None of them even make small and cheap cars anymore which is what the poor and lower mid class need. Plus the batteries in the Chinese EV’s have great recycle value in the US and will provide ample feed stock of battety materials for the US auto market.

Here are all vehicles that qualify and how much they qualify for…. There is an assembly in North America requirement for $3750 and a battery materials requirement to come from a friendly country for another $3750 for a total of $7500. There is a msrp cap of $80k for SUV/pickup and $55k cap on sedans. Also income limits of $150k single and $300 married. Leasing since a “business” owns the vehicle they get a tax write off and every vehicle qualifies…. all the way from a Rimac Nevera down to a Nissan leaf if they are lease. Lease company can choose to pass that onto the individual leasing. In the case of a Mercedes EV it’s better to lease then buy if the terms are right and they pass the credit on. anyhow her is the current vehicles that qualify and likely will get less and less as time goes on as the raw material requirements get stricter…. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g43675128/cars-eligible-for-ev-tax-credit/ Tesla will be ahead of the game through commitments to buy recycled material through Redwood and also bringing in the raw materials from friendly countries such as Australia, Chile and such instead of relying on China and processing it in its soon to be completed Lithium processor plant in Texas.

Very few vehicles qualify for tax credit for outright purchase. Have sourcing requirements, msrp thresholds and income limits of the buyer…. Republicans snuck in a provision for leasing to give businesses more tax breaks…. So in Leasing everything qualifies without any stipulation…. so yes if you leased a Chinese EV there would be a tax credit as the law is currently written.

We only export 3 million barrels a day last year while producing around 12 million barrels a day. we utilize majority of our of our oil in US refineries which us produced oil is blended with imported oil to get the desired oil grade

if US refiners can’t use our crude oil we produce why don’t exports match import? You do realize they blend these oils right at the refinery…. Something like just north of 70% of US oil is blended with 30% imported oil to get the refiners the desired blend for refining.

“Most of the crude oil produced in the United States is refined in U.S. refineries along with imported crude oil to make petroleum products.” https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=268&t=6

Fox News just said the house just passed FISA….

In this economy, at least some things are getting cheaper. Natural gas prices in West Texas have dipped below zero — yes, some operators are paying to get rid of gas. At the same time, higher oil prices and increased demand is spurring more crude production in the Permian Basin. In other words, the higher price of one commodity is helping tank the price of another. In West Texas, energy companies are often producing crude oil and natural gas at the same time — Steve Cicala at Tufts University said you can think about it like parts of a chicken. https://www.marketplace.org/2024/04/11/the-higher-price-of-oil-is-helping-tank-the-price-of-natural-gas/

Producers are paying $2.00 per million BTU to get rid of natural gas. https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Texas-Natural-Gas-Prices-Are-Negative-As-Drillers-Chase-Oil-Sales.html Natural gas prices at the Waha hub in the Permian basin in Texas slumped to a negative value of -$2.00 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) this week as the recent rise in oil prices prompts producers to bring drilled but uncompleted wells online. As the U.S. benchmark oil price, West Texas Intermediate, hit $85 per barrel—the highest level in nearly six months, Texas producers keep pumping crude, but their wells also produce gas, which basically has nowhere to go.

Gas prices in the U.S. surged this week to a six-month high, with drivers paying roughly $3.60 per gallon at the pump, as high oil prices, refinery maintenance and international turbulence in the energy market continue to leave a dent in drivers’ pocketbooks. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2024/04/08/gas-prices-surge-to-six-month-high-at-360-heres-where-prices-are-highest-and-why-they-could-keep-climbing/?sh=42b5166b7bef

I will take advantage of every tax law that lets me keep more of my own money. I am not the type that feels your tax dollars are mine but odd you feel obligated to the dollars I pay in. You lower your tax burden by using tax law to your advantage. Can’t help those that won’t help themselves

Make your own. More fuel efficient vehicles also will lower costs. Get a bicycle, public transportation for those in more urban style enviroment. Buying a pickup that mostly haul air and one or 2 people and to occasionally tow toys for recreation is a personal choice and expenditure. If you have a 15 mpg rig and it hurts to fill at 5 bucks a gallon you can easily get a vehicle that gets 40-45 mpg on the cheap which uses a 1/3 less fuel.

Nice car. Filled my work truck this morning for 4.89 a gallon for diesel…. 15 mpg. Filled my Tesla for free as well today. 😂

I don’t really care how other feel tbh. I believe in self sufficiency and responsibility. If you are paying $5 a gallon and that is upsetting that is the sole responsibility of those upset especially when it’s so easy not to pay $5 a gallon. My electricity is way less the 5 cents a kwh but don’t really care if somebody has to pay more for electricity then I do. Their choice to pay how much ever they want. Every expenditure besides taxes is a personal choice.

Last one prior to this like in 2017 totality came right through my area…. Missed it due to work out of the area but was 80% where I was which was pretty cool in itself. Wife said it was awesome on the totality. Likely going to have to go a vacation to watch one at some point as I want to see one. Congrats to those that got to see it.

Interesting how hezbollah could cause a $40 increase in a barrel of oil from where it is now with what is going on in the Straight of Hormuz https://www.thestreet.com/economy/get-ready-for-5-a-gallon-gasoline

😂 The situation becomes even riskier as these files seep into the world where anyone can sell them as their own. Spend any time in diesel truck Facebook groups and you'll see people using code words like "weight loss" or "diet plans" instead of explicitly talking about deletes—yes, really. The original poster is usually asking where they can get their truck deleted, and they're met with comments that simply say "DM me." And it isn't unprecedented for these to be high schoolers who snagged a delete tune for cheap and they're selling it for $150 because they spent no time developing it on their own. "They'll send the file out and a lot of times, they don't work, which is great for us because it keeps us diagnosing them," Willis said. "But when it doesn't work, you're basically sh*t out of luck." https://www.thedrive.com/news/sketchy-diesel-tuning-black-market-forming-as-us-shops-stop-deleting-trucks

Hard to believe for some that it’s republicans and republicans only are responsible for Texas war on Coal and its renewables and green energy revolution. Deregulation at work really. https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-green-power-energy-america-economy-wind-oil-solar-prices-2023-11 Given the current battles, it's a bit ironic that Texas' ability to become America's green-energy leader was the result of two Republican governors and the state's conservative, pro-business bent. The runway was laid more than two decades ago when then Gov. George W. Bush pushed through a plan to deregulate the state's energy market. Instead of letting utilities control all the generation and transmission of power, the law created a competitive market that allows customers to choose their power provider. The goal was to lower the cost of turning on the lights for households and businesses. The plan also included a target for Texas to produce 2,000 megawatts of power from renewable-energy sources by 2009. The plan was so successful that in 2005, Republican Gov. Rick Perry raised the target to 10,000 megawatts by 2025 — a threshold Texas quickly surpassed. An energy market that prioritized the cheapest supply, combined with a quick process to approve and build new transmission lines, proved to be a winning formula in a state with vast swaths of open land, wind, and sunshine. Last year, the state generated about 30% of its power from wind and solar.

Yep i was right. Kind of forgot which member on these sites liked the ass play on your their own butt hole for pleasure.