Interesting story about home automobile gasoline filling stations in residential property

[dsi1]

So you're sleepy. Go take a nap now. :-)

[krw]

Yeah, that's why those computer thingies never caught on.

[Attila.Iskander]

Yawning is not necessarily a sign of sleepiness It's also a sign of acute boredom with a subject that has been chewed over so many times that it's paste

[Ed Pawlowski]

My wife has been to a gas station exactly once in our 45 years together. It was the highest priced station, but they pumped it for her. Same convenience, no cans and drums.

[worker bee]

I hear that's rough on the fuel pump.

My wife, like yours, hates going to the pump so badly, half the time she does full serve (if she can find it) or she goes to the well lit gas station on the busy corner right next to the highway.

Since I only fill up once every couple of months, I can afford to go to gasbuddy.com to pick which station is cheapest every two months.

I figure I easily save 10 cents a gallon over what she would pay, and sometimes more. However, savings alone aren't enough reason to do this as the equipment would take more than a decade to pay for itself at that rate, assuming it doesn't depreciate appreciably

In the end, if you're gonna gas up at home, you just have be satisfied in giving the wife the convenience of a perpetually full gas tank.

[Brent]

Who are these people holding on to vastly out of date technology for the sake of not changing? How many rotary phones do you see being used?

1970s or earlier cars as daily drivers? The people who just refuse to change to superior technology because they just don't want to change are few and far between.

The discussion was regarding customers not manufacturers. Manufacturers don't have a choice in free market conditions. They either adapt or die. The premise, that I agree with, is that superior product doesn't need to be forced on any one. If electrics were or become superior then new companies would quickly displace old companies that refused to change given free market conditions.

[dsi1]

(yawn) it'll never fly Wilbur. (yawn) those cars will never catch on, there's no roads! (yawn) hydraulic brakes are the stupidest idea ever! People want cable! (yawn) front wheel drive? Over my dead body! (yawn) digital cameras? Strictly for amateurs. (yawn) so what else is new? (-:

[dsi1]

Haha, one of those personal attack babies. =F0=9F=92=A9

[dsi1]

There's probably a little less than a couple of gallons left in the tank when it comes on but the light really bugs me. I commend how desire to please your wife.

[krw]

No, simple observation. You've demonstrated that you're an idiot.

[HeyBub]

For her safety and your peace of mind, not to mention all the hustle and bustle, encourage your wife to obtain a concealed handgun license, unless you live in Illinois where you can't, or New Jersey, Hawaii, and a couple of other places where it's damn near impossible.

You'll save money in the long run.

[Vic Smith]

I wonder how attended gas stations figures into the crime stats. Never thought of that before. Don't mind pumping my own gas - it's faster - but having the pump jockey squeegee the windows was always appreciated. Miss that free dishware too.

Gee, I was going to suggest she just keep a Molotov cocktail at hand. Seems more efficient with all that gas in the jugs at home. Now, on second thought...

--Vic

[dsi1]

e:

What are you? 12 years old? You talk like that to people you don't know? Your mom never taught you any manners? =F0=9F=98=B1

[HeyBub]

I don't have any evidence that she's irrational. Maybe she's phobic. Maybe she just doesn't like the smell of gasoline on her clothes. Maybe she is afraid of being asked to sign a petition.

Whatever. Having a gun nearby may very well give her the confidence she needs to function in a complex society.

I carry a gun everywhere I go. I now go into biker bars and order a glass of milk, something I would never have done before.

[mike]

If having a gun encourages you to do things you wouldn't consider without a gun, you're asking for trouble. I see two possibilities.

1) you get shot with your own gun. 2) you end up in jail for shooting someone. It's your word against 20 bikers.

I went thru a "carrying" phase until I decided that it was a foolish.

IFF you MUST venture into unsafe areas, like your delivery job requires it, you might convince yourself it's worth the risk. IF you CHOOSE to go there, you're being foolish.

[Brent]

The USA is not a free market. This is why companies seek government to better their market position whatever it may be.

[Brent]

I believe the auto manufacturers would toss the oil companies aside the first chance they got. It would just make life so much more simple for them and considerably more profitable.

Those looking for a conspiracy should probably concentrate on zero point energy rather than the automakers.

[Moe Gasser]

Correct!

And the $64,000 question is:

If you invented a small, compact, 100% efficient battery that would power a car for 1000 miles, which oil company would be the highest bidder for the patent rights?

[Vic Smith]

No oil company could match the royalties you'd make by using the patent to produce the batteries. That's the big problem with most "conspiracy" theories. They fall apart when examined.

--Vic

[Brent]

What makes you think an oil company would buy it or the government would allow it to be patented?

The problem with a patent is that it is published for all to see. The US federal government can't invade every country where someone copies the patent and the local government doesn't shut it down.

This isn't free enterprise we are dealing with in the USA. It's a form of organized crime. The response would be along the lines of how organized crime deals with competition. There won't be any bidders. The inventor will either take a deal he can't refuse (if even offered) or have an "accident" at worst and considerable regulatory, civil, and criminal legal problems at best.