Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Here in central Texas we are paying$2.45 to $2.65 per gallon of regular gas(location matters to price, we are affluent enough that people won't drive to save a dime in some demographics). Diesel is hovering right at $3.00 a gallon unless you have an agricultural exemption in which case something like$0.55 is taken off for taxes. While I have installed a solar system that generates about 100kwh extraneous to current needs for a potential electric vehicle I still relish low energy costs. Texas is a big state with places of interest being long distance away. Yesterday there was an interesting cultural event 140 km away. We just went to see with no worries. Everything is about balance. The entrance fee supported some artists and the relevant support staff. 22 liters of gasoline has a carbon cost but I generate 10% of my neighbors electricity, compost my yard waste, don't eat corn and have reduced my consumption of meat. Everyone talks about 0 carbon emissions but that is unrealistic unless we all become small freeholders with no trade beyond our village. Perhaps if the chemical engineers come up with a way to pull carbon from the air and turn it into all the carbon based items we use everyday from excess wind and solar generated in our sunny regions. A hydrogen economy is problematic because hydrogen is so reactive that most materials deteriate quickly in useful lifespan terms with the risk of extremely Taoist oxidation events. On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 12:53 AM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > The price of gas in Bridgeport, California. Does anyone in the USA have > a higher gas price they can show? > > California Gas Prices (leica-users.org) > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/s/California+Gas+Prices.jpg.html > > > > Aram > > -- > Aram Langhans > (Semi) Retired Science Teacher > & Unemployed photographer > > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself > would ever have dared dream.? > James D. Watson > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information