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FossilFndr said:
3 years ago last week I got a Camry Hybrid XLE. people then ask me why with such low gas prices would I spend the money on such a car. Because of Covid I have not driven it as much as expected, planned some long trips beginning in spring 2020 but .... I've only got about 23,000 miles but over the life it has averaged 44.5 MPG. I'm about to drive to NW of Cincinnati and can make the round trip with only 15.5 gallons, plus what I drive around there. I don't feel like I made a mistake about now.

On another subject I've never done much walking for exercise etc but beginning May 10th through tonight I just broke 80 miles. I mowed out a 1.5 mile loop around my hay fields which I now usually walk twice a day. Also go to a nearby park and do a 3 mile walk around the lake 3 mornings a week plus the 1.5 miles that night. I only missed one day and that was because of all day rain. I started with just 1 mile a day.
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If I were going to do it I think I would go more the hybrid route more so than fully electric.
 
FossilFndr said:
3 years ago last week I got a Camry Hybrid XLE. people then ask me why with such low gas prices would I spend the money on such a car. Because of Covid I have not driven it as much as expected, planned some long trips beginning in spring 2020 but .... I've only got about 23,000 miles but over the life it has averaged 44.5 MPG. I'm about to drive to NW of Cincinnati and can make the round trip with only 15.5 gallons, (680 milles) plus what I drive around there. I don't feel like I made a mistake about now.

On another subject I've never done much walking for exercise etc but beginning May 10th through tonight I just broke 80 miles. I mowed out a 1.5 mile loop around my hay fields which I now usually walk twice a day. Also go to a nearby park and do a 3 mile walk around the lake 3 mornings a week plus the 1.5 miles that night. I only missed one day and that was because of all day rain. I started with just 1 mile a day.
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Yeah, I want to make my next car electric. I don't know what but it's gotta be the way to go heading forward. Even looking past the current bubble. I will count myself "behind the curve" when I should have been ahead of it like you. But right now I drive a dumb truck and have a 30 mile commute to work. So uh... :facepalm:
 
Porter Stoutheart said:
Yeah, I want to make my next car electric. I don't know what but it's gotta be the way to go heading forward. Even looking past the current bubble. I will count myself "behind the curve" when I should have been ahead of it like you. But right now I drive a dumb truck and have a 30 mile commute to work. So uh... :facepalm:
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I have an hour drive but if I keep my foot out of it I can get right at 38-39 mpg in my Kia Optima. With my wife driving it's more like 32 lol
 
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The Sam's Club in Milwaukee that was $4.85 went up to $4.91, then down to $4.89. Other places have come down from $5.15 to $4.99 or less.

On my trip to the country, I have seen $4.74 for the usual 87 octane and 10 cents less for E15. I saw lower prices in Janesville, in the $4.30s and $4.40s on Saturday. That was a surprise since the last state average that I heard was $4.89.
 
$4.29 in Hendersonville yesterday. $4.29 to $4.35 most places in Hermitage and Old Hickory.

Sometimes it's good to live on the less fashionable side of town. Franklin TN, according to Gas Buddy: $4.79 - $4.91, Brentwood $4.89 and up. At $.60 per gallon, it's possibly worth your while to travel this way to fill up!
 
Well at least they just say the quiet part out loud now with big time college football. The old mantra 'the kids do it for the love of football!' is gone. Not sure what it has been replaced with just yet but I do know at least that ship has sailed.
 
triggrman said:
Conferences are getting so big, they mean nothing. Pretty soon it will be a top 40 super conference for the big schools, and the big schools only.
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Yeah, the way things are with a billion useless little bowls that sometimes cant even find a school with a .500 record, it's probably time for another division in college football anyway. Put all the super bigs in one division, and have another division for the WKUs and Middle Tennessees and their ilk.
 
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adsfan said:
The Sam's Club in Milwaukee that was $4.85 went up to $4.91, then down to $4.89. Other places have come down from $5.15 to $4.99 or less.

On my trip to the country, I have seen $4.74 for the usual 87 octane and 10 cents less for E15. I saw lower prices in Janesville, in the $4.30s and $4.40s on Saturday. That was a surprise since the last state average that I heard was $4.89.
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When I was driving through earlier in the week, the Flying J just across the Kentucky border on I65 was at $4.03 or something equally relatively low. (It's family tradition to always stop there any time we're on the road in the area.)
 
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Oh, and as for the college football nonsense... the mental model I'm going with to try to make sense of it all is "The NCAA is dead; long live the Superconferences". The B1G predates the NCAA's existence by a decade, after all, so it's not entirely unprecedented.
 
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Viqsi said:
When I was driving through earlier in the week, the Flying J just across the Kentucky border on I65 was at $4.03 or something equally relatively low. (It's family tradition to always stop there any time we're on the road in the area.)
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We were in Troy/Springfield/Dayton area last week, and it was $4.99 there.
 
Filled up for $4.44 yesterday at a Kwik Fill. My wife said it was $4.74 a week ago at the same station. Prices continue going down in Wisconsin.
 
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