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My favorite thing is the gift of a sticker on a board of walnut warning me that said walnut can cause cancer. Pretty soon you guys will have stickers on live trees also.
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Saw this today, and having either visited or lived in some of these places I can totally agree. This is a couple of months old so prices are even higher now. This is a worldwide issue, not the US alone.
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and now the big LA universities are leaving the pac12 for the big10. seems like they want to get out to the midwest as well, even if just for a few visits a year:crazy:

Our daughter did her undergraduate at UCLA. When the news broke about UCLA and USC going to the Big 10, she went nuts.

Based on what she said was going in in the Alumni community online, I would say there are going to be a number of SoCal academics looking for work, right soon.
 

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Saw this today, and having either visited or lived in some of these places I can totally agree. This is a couple of months old so prices are even higher now. This is a worldwide issue, not the US alone.
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The day we left CA, gas was 5.70 a gallon. I took this photo when we stopped for gas in Arizona.
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This is what my daily commute to work looked like in So Cal.

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And what it looks like now at 7AM in Iowa.

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I love our true four seasons of weather, and lots of genuinely nice folks that aren’t interested in being in a rush to get somewhere first, would rather be polite and friendly instead of a rude asshole, and could care less who has the biggest, latest and greatest whatever. To each his own, whatever makes things best for you and yours.
That’s a lot of concrete on your daily commute. Here’s my commute, in CA.
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Saw this today, and having either visited or lived in some of these places I can totally agree. This is a couple of months old so prices are even higher now. This is a worldwide issue, not the US alone.
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None of those countries have their own gas supply and production capacity that US does.
 

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Saw this today, and having either visited or lived in some of these places I can totally agree. This is a couple of months old so prices are even higher now. This is a worldwide issue, not the US alone.
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Now show a chart of the gas prices for each country pre January 2020 and now. Compare the percentage increase and see who tops the charts.
 

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That’s a lot of concrete on your daily commute. Here’s my commute, in CA.
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Not sure what your point is. The two photos I put up were the stark contrast between So Cal traffic which always is a factor wherever and whenever you go somewhere, opposed to my life now which has zero traffic to be planned around. BTW, 10 minutes drive from where that photo was taken which is downtown Des Moines, are rolling hills with forests that aren’t on fire and beautiful farm land as far as the eye can see. Way, way better than a Cali concrete jungle sitting in a parking lot.
 

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Not sure what your point is. The two photos I put up were the stark contrast between So Cal traffic which always is a factor wherever and whenever you go somewhere, opposed to my life now which has zero traffic to be planned around. BTW, 10 minutes drive from where that photo was taken which is downtown Des Moines, are rolling hills with forests that aren’t on fire and beautiful farm land as far as the eye can see. Way, way better the a Cali concrete jungle sitting in a parking lot.
Just saying CA is not only SD/LA/SF. By contrast, I used to live in San Diego and had all the traffic and concrete. Now living in the Owen's Valley, I can drive for miles without seeing brake lights in front of me.
 

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Saw this today, and having either visited or lived in some of these places I can totally agree. This is a couple of months old so prices are even higher now. This is a worldwide issue, not the US alone.
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Shutting down or reducing US production affects the whole world. If you check you will see the Russian Ruble up and India an China is buying the oil and gas being boycotted by European countries. We are funding both sides of the Ukraine war by directly funding The Ukraine an having energy policies the drove prices up an allows Putin the funding to continue it.
 

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None of those countries have their own gas supply and production capacity that US does.
True, but with fracking, regulations, not in my back yard, and recovery cost the US production has dropped a lot, plus we have limited areas where we have Oil deposits. The middle East is pumping at near 100% of capacity and the oil will not last forever as some want to think. As oil gets harder to find, and various types of recovery methods get more expensive costs will increase.
 

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My favorite thing is the gift of a sticker on a board of walnut warning me that said walnut can cause cancer. Pretty soon you guys will have stickers on live trees also.
Even parts for my Ranger cause cancer in California.
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True, but with fracking, regulations, not in my back yard, and recovery cost the US production has dropped a lot, plus we have limited areas where we have Oil deposits. The middle East is pumping at near 100% of capacity and the oil will not last forever as some want to think. As oil gets harder to find, and various types of recovery methods get more expensive costs will increase.
No one expects it to last forever but the supply appears stable for the near future until we are truly ready to make a massive shift to EV's. The grid an power supply isn't there yet. Last I read there are 270 million internal combustion engine cars on the road. With the "supply chain issues" we're having how long will it take to replace those? How long before working class people can afford to replace the vehicle they have with an EV? There's new technology in nuclear power that look promising...affordable and safe thanks to new advances.
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