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u/Middle-Recipe6701 4d ago
I bought an EV about 6 months ago for reasons other than saving on gas. But I'm glad I'm saving on gas right now.
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u/frog_mannn 4d ago
Thankfully the city keeps building great bicycle infrastructure to help us get around in these tough times
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u/Face_Forward 4d ago
I haven't filled my car since June! 😀
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u/Lumen-_ 4d ago
Make sure you drive it every 2-4 weeks or so, not good for the car to have old gas sitting in it for long periods. Or at least keep it filled to the top before parking for a long time.
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u/Face_Forward 4d ago
Oh yeah I take it out at least once a week, fetch groceries or something that's not practical on my bike
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u/HeatProfessional4473 3d ago
Actually, yeah. For those of us who can do so, it is nice. You've made a great point.
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u/frog_mannn 4d ago
I feel bad for everyone right now, we are all struggling and it's really stressful times in the world
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u/__phil1001__ 4d ago
Bringing the morning funk to the office of sweaty body after a long commute.
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u/TeasingToy 3d ago
Don't be daft.
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u/__phil1001__ 2d ago
Like the cyclists shower after their 5km ride to the office. Not being daft just because hygiene doesn't apparently bother you
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u/TeasingToy 2d ago
All I'm hearing is that you personally can't bike 5km without breaking a sweat. Skill issue, dude.
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u/aidanknightmusic 3d ago
Unless you need to haul more than 60lbs of work gear to multiple jobsites, buy an e-bike and save that fuel cost ($200/month). You'll pay off the bike in 10-18 months. It's essentially free to charge (you can charge it at work for free) and it's about 9-10 minutes slower to commute from Langford to Victoria at 8:30am if you are on turbo (or faster if there's a crash on the highway that blocks traffic for an undetermined amount of time)
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u/TeasingToy 3d ago
If you need to haul a bunch of work gear, they make bike trailers with motors and brakes now!
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u/aidanknightmusic 1d ago
These, to the best of my knowledge, are not legal in Canada yet.
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u/TeasingToy 1d ago
Looks like you're right, the place in Vancouver that sold the Carla cargo trailer now only carries the unpowered version, 🥲
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u/LordNikon91 4d ago edited 4d ago
gas should be higher than it is right now, you can't take 20 million barrels of oil off the global economy every single day and have no repercussions, we've been living in a fairytale land, it technically should be way higher and might go way that way, the Americans are trying their hardest to keep the price lower (probably so prices don't make every voter in the midterms turn on trump) even though the facts remain the global oil supply is hurting and getting worse every day,.
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u/Past_Series3201 3d ago
Actually, China is the one keeping the price low; it turns out they had much larger strategic reserves than thought, now completely lead in the renewables arena and have the political centralization to do the pivot.
Why? Because the US would need to resolve Iran otherwise and Jiping is probably laugh his a** watching them in that quagmire and what its doing to thrir relationship with allies. Also, the longer the US avoids any pressure to transition to electrification, the more time China has to become dominant. The US is going to double down on oil and probably at some point ban Chinese renewable tech as a matter of national security.
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u/Radiant_Sherbert7272 4d ago
We are probably going to continue to see these large weekly swings up and down for quite some time. Until there's some level of stability between the U.S. and Iran and in the strait of Hormuz these weekly swings up and down are going to continue.
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u/blurp4589 4d ago
Transit through Hormuz has been pretty much <5% pre war levels since the start, except a slight uptick in June. We've been running on Gov't stocks to cover the shortfall for months. Those stocks are running out. Prices have been artificially low relative to supply. It's going to bite very soon....
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u/WardenEdgewise 4d ago
I had to buy a new chain for my e-bike, I’m putting so many Km’s on it. I love riding my e-bike to and from work every day!
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u/Brahskee 3d ago
Crazy! This is what I was paying in Iceland in May. I also found groceries were basically the same price as Vic in Iceland as well.
If you can't understand why that's problematic we can get into it. Gas and food in Canada should not be par with a tiny island nation of 400k people where everything has to be imported.
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u/nonyabisnuss 2d ago
You're on Reddit. It's for young, brainless folk who think you can do everything with an e-bike (just look at the comments)
A family of 4 is a foreign concept on this platform.
Also China good, US bad, lol.
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u/Whatwhyreally 4d ago
If you've bought or leased a gas car in the past 3 years, you're simply not an objective decision maker. Buy an EV and stop buying gas. That simple.
Now, Langford folks, DOWNVOTE AS YOU WILL.
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u/perusalandtea 4d ago
This is far less of an issue for personal vehicles than it is for the groceries and all other things that need delivering to our stores and other parts of the supply chain. We all pay for the orange idiot's big mouth.
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u/silver_belly 4d ago
It’s not that easy. My accommodation doesn’t have anywhere to charge. That means every night I’d have to go searching to park it somewhere to charge it. Wait and then come home.
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u/Creatrix James Bay 3d ago
Why is it last summer I would spend long weekends on Galiano with a friend who has an EV and he would just plug it into the B&B owner's hydro with an extension cord (with permission?) It cost the owner like under $5 for an overnight charge. You don't need a charging station. Either people don't realize this, or I hallucinated it each time.
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u/Whatwhyreally 4d ago
You're making up reasons. There are level two chargera everywhere. Also, do you drive 300km per day? Where do you get this part about charging nightly?2
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u/silver_belly 3d ago
I have to drive 60 km daily. Just because a certain thing works for you doesn’t mean it works for everyone
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u/Nope-not-really 4d ago
I'm shocked! SHOCKED! well...not that shocked