Recent content by Mr. Coffee

Somebody is certainly deranged, I agree.

I think a big difference between 2022 and 2026 is that 2026 was self-inflicted by a President didn't go through any of the processes to get the public or Congress on board. So you could argue that this war was unlawful from the get-go and we citizens are paying the price for someone else's...

I am describing how eighty percent of the country by area works and how twenty percent of the population in that area has to live. This didn't happen overnight -- this is what decades of car dependence has done to our society. You can make all of the arguments about moving somewhere else you...

Of course the boneheads in the White House finds this all very inconvenient. Where I live there are quite a few people who commute 100+ miles per day. And it is a 100 mile roundtrip to Wal-Mart and a 200 mile roundtrip to Costco. This is also a very Republican-leaning area, and I suspect...

There is a number for everybody where owning their truck will no longer be worth it or affordable. That number is different for different people, obviously. My own view is that this crisis will reach and wildly surpass that number for many people. I've spoken to people who have some...

Just a historical perspective. Pre-1979 Iran provided about 5 percent of the crude oil the US consumed. After that was cut off gas prices at the pump doubled and didn't really recover (they never recovered completely) until the Oil Glut of 1984. We haven't quite doubled prices at the pump...

Why do you think fuel prices will be high for only a few months? Even if everything stopped today and went perfectly from this moment onwards we'd probably be looking at a major fuel supply crunch for at least another year. And also the longer the system is disrupted the longer it is going to...

I think the story in 2026 is going to be a lot of pickup truck owners rethinking their life choices.

Except that it probably is more like $300 or $400 per month for fuel at these prices and that big truck fuel economy. Also people in car-centric places and rural areas drive more miles per year than the average so those numbers are even larger.

Don't worry, I think it is safe to expect fuel prices in the states will reach those levels in the next few months. There is an interesting political overlap on this mess. On the average, more car-dependent areas of the United States tend to vote Republican and less car-dependent areas tend to...

I've been running totally tubeless here since 2023. And in that time I have had quite a few flats. But in no case did I need to remove the wheel from the bike or install a tube. Sidewall tears with modern tires under most riding conditions are vanishingly rare in practice. The only one I...

By the time you leave it will probably be twice that even in Iowa.

Regular Unleaded is now over $6 per gallon in the Seattle area. My feeling on this is that folks have had decades to absorb the fact that if we are running on fossil fuels, we are running on borrowed time. Too few people were proactive and now we have a mess. The best way for people to learn...

Yes, I haven't financed a car in thirty years but right now I reckon that locking in a low interest rate I will be paying the loan off with US Dollars Light.

You can spread FUD. I'm saving $300 per month with an EV and I'll keep enjoying that. Just don't ever complain to me about fuel prices. Because I'll laugh at you.