Saving Money as Prices Increase

[newbury]

making the actual power cost around $4./kWh (not a typo!).

At $4/kWh I'd probably start burning wood for heating. But with electricity at $0.09584/kWh, and our bills rarely over $100/month (including about $20 of fixed charges) it's not worth the effort.

 

[sea2summit]

Open your eyes....reread my post.... The government has no control on the price of my milk.... My cow does !
Need I spell it out for ya ?

There’s a difference between “the” and “my” cow. Having said that whatever you need to tell yourself to make you feel good is cool by me.

 

[sea2summit]

I see you're new here so I'll explain.. I go get my cow. Bring her into the barn. I milk her. She controls the milk. Not your government.
A cave man can get it, can you ?

Wow, glad I haven’t been around long enough to go back to grade school? Bugger off.

 

[kenmac]

tell you what. I'm not going to stoop to your level.

 

[Jstpssng]

Today I drove 200 miles to my mother's house and back. Rather than traveling at my normal speeds of 5-10 over the speed limit (60-80 mph) I obeyed the signs. As near as I can tell it saved me about 2 gallons of gas and took another 1/2 hour each way.

I also POed a lot of people who didn't like me obeying the law.

 

[ultrarunner]

Moderate steady driving easy on car and pocket book and avoids citations

Driving West Coast nowhere have I encounter the level of scofflaws on the road as the SF East Bay...

Wild West and I guess frugality is out the window?

Cars ripping past on surface streets blowing past traffic lights and signs and pedal to the metal weaving in and out of traffic at ver high rates of freeway speed.

For the most part LEO not interested in ending career over traffic enforcement.

Washington State a pleasure to drive in comparison...

At time if you saw this kind of driving you would have thought a bank was robbed or stolen car...

 

[newbury]

Since it seems we are on driving speeds -
I grew up in Vermont, where the STATE speed limit WAS 50MPH at least until the early 1970's. Not 55, not 65, not 70. (They also banned car CFC a/c for a while.)
So when I started driving in the 1960's I was accustomed to "slow speed" travel.
And being relatively young and relatively poor my first several cars were good for low and slow.
I was used to watching traffic back up behind me.
To this day I don't mind cars stacking up behind me when I go the speed limit.
/edit - should have mentioned I've usually about a 5 car limit for cars behind me if I'm not towing a trailer. Anymore and I'll try to pull off and let them all pass. But towing a trailer i's more difficult to pull off and back on.

 

[daugen]

I absolutely despise tailgaters and have done a lot of experimentation about how to get them off my tail or prevent them
from doing it to begin with. Now that I'm retired and drive a thirsty truck, I know slowing down will help. I use cruise control as much as possible.
But what to set it at? Put it on the speed limit and you'll be tailgated immediately. I usually set mine at 4-6mph over. That shows whoever is behind me I'm not just dogging
it at the speed limit to make some ecological statement (don't you hate that in the left lane?). Most folks are happy to drive at 5 over even if they wanted to do 8 or 10 over, like
I used to. But now I knock at least 5mph off. My Ram hemi is quiet and comfortable at 70.

btw, no brake checking, half the world has a dash cam and anyone who does that to anyone else is risking a catastrophe and letting their emotions get out of hand.
I watch a lot of youtube accident videos, have found them to be helpful in learning new defensive driving techniques.

Newbury, I leave one full car length between me and the car in front at a stop light. Drives some folks behind me nuts, who are already six inches off my bumper.
Well now I have a big chrome tri-ball hitch back there with a nasty looking chromed hook on it for towing. If you want some friend, this is what you'll get...

 

[Jstpssng]

I don't generally let tailgaters worry me, my only action is to back off the vehicle in front of me to allow more stopping distance. If I feel they are endangering me I will find a safe place to pull over, but prefer not to do that. This also gives them someplace to go should they decide to do a stupid pass and run out of room after getting by me. Between work and personal I drive about 50k miles/year and all that I want to do is to get where I'm going safely. Playing games the way that some people do, including speeding up when the tailgater can pass, then slowing down when they can't is counteractive to my goals.
That 400 mile day trip to my mother's, usually with a few hours working while down there can be a bit tedious.

To tie this back into the original topic; getting in an accident isn't going to save me any money, and I prefer to spend it on other things rather than a new pickup.

 

[Torvy]

Milk prices here are controlled, vendors can't sell them below a set amount.

Maybe in Maine?