Wow!
It’s only $2.78 at my local Costco. But, an authoritative source recently stated that it is “less than $2.00”, so maybe we’re both hallucinating.
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It varies widely around here. The Chevron around the corner from my office is $4.49. The grocery store near my home is 3.99 with Kroger rewards. I don’t know the Costco price here, and I’m not waiting in a line 5 cars deep to find out.
On the other hand, electricity to charge your PHEV is significantly less here in WA than it is in NJ. You want me to send you a few kilowatts? 
If you have the flexibility that I have, you could go there in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week, and be able to drive directly up to a pump. This is one of the advantages of being retired.
The collective that sells electricity to the utilities in the NY/NJ area is jacking-up its prices a LOT next month. One of the key issues in our upcoming Gubernatorial election is how to deal with that collective.
I used to be a Toyota guy–last one was almost 20 years with a Prius --but their decision to make ONLY hybrids and no electrics means they will not get my business.
They used to be a leader in reducing fossil fuels, but are betting on keeping dead dinosaurs in their vehicles.
Once you drive an electric for a month, you will NOT want to go back. I took my old Subaru Forester (winter/hauler) back to mechanic because “it smelled, and was making noises.”
Mechanic said I was simply “too used” to the electric sedan–and she was 100% correct about that!
Toyota has changed direction again, and has announced that they will have 7 EV models in showrooms w/in 2 years.
I remember when $480 was a monthly rental on a nice apartment!
I spend about $150 on my electric for a busy month, plug-in to 120 volt outlet and that is with the “renewable” surcharge I choose on the electric bill, so that all my kilowatt hours come from NON-fossil-fuel sources.
They make 3, Toyota, Lexus, and Subaru. They have likely saved more barrels of oil with their hybrids over the decades than any other maker.
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congratulations for making @johnlump_191311 decide he doesn’t want to spend time on this forum
Gasoline Forever!!!..
I think it is funny what one persons views are is what they think the rest of the world should be thinking… Well I hate to tell ya, but there are still a lot of us ICE drivers out here that love the sounds and smells of ICE vehicles… I bet there aren’t to many tree huggers at NHRA/NASCAR/F1/Drifting etc etc etc events out there, but damn they sure do fill the stands without many problems… I don’t expect everyone to like what I like, so don’t even think that I will automatically like what you like, if we happen to like some of the same things, cool, if not that is alright also… If we were all the same, life would be boring… lol
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@johnlump_191311 hasn’t been here for 2 days, @sheridanpaul just replied to him this afternoon, I don’t believe he is to blame for John’s disappointment in the forum.
This group would rather discuss Oldsmobiles, maybe John is right.
How do you get to choose that? Do you generate your own electricity?
Nationally approximately 60% of electricity is generated by fossil fuels.
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I believe Rick’s viewpoints also dismayed him
In case anyone wants to see a video about the Olds Jetfire turbocharged engine, here it is:
Thanks for asking!
We signed up for Maine Green Power, here: https://megreenpower.com/
We pay an additional 2 x $8.95 = $17.90 for “blocks” of 500 KWHs. (we also use electricity for heat pumps, hot water heater. Almost no fossils fuels at home.)
We get a substantial amount of our overall power from local and Hydro Quebec, SOME local wind turbines, and Some local solar farms (some farmers only can break even if they lease unused land for solar panels, smaller animals-sheep–can graze beneath).
We could do a lot better if we were able to move faster on 24/7 power from OFFSHORE wind farms–floating turbines, as in Europe–20+ miles out, not visible from land. And our northern coast borders the Bay of Fundy, a potentially great source of 24/7 tidal power. Problems comes from current Wash, DC administration that wants to pedal country backwards, it seems.
Very cool. Count me in as someone else who’s never seen or even heard of one before.
Someone say Oldsmobile? I am letting everyone know i will no longer be performing any roto-hydramatic rebuilds.
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Roto-Hydra-Who?
With the late/harsh 1-2 shift and the lugging engine, mine sure made you feel any engine misfires. After your share of those I can see why you became a Mopar guy.
Lol- i had that tranmission in my 62 Jetfire. It was quite unique.
The University where taught.until I retired in 2011 has hybrid vehicles in its fleet. Before I retired, I made road trips to conferences in Honda Civic hybrids and Ford Escape hybrids. I found both satisfactory, although the.seating position in the Honds Civic wasn’t comfortable for me.
When I replace my 2017 Toyota Sienns, I would strongly consider a Toyota Sienna hybrid.
I do have a friend that owned a Toyota Sienna hybrid. She traded it because the Sienna hybrid has no spare tire. She had two flat tires in 60,000 miles, and that was a problem for her, so she traded itvl for a KIA Telluride.
For ~$500, she could have bought a spare tire mounted on an alloy wheel, plus a jack and a complete set of tire changing tools: