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Tony Cooper is guilty of <09de6kh3loadddknl93qkhit6km5pnqiv1@4ax.com>
as of 7/3/2025 7:00:40 PM
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:40:17 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper scribbled something on Thursday the 7/3/2025:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:58:26 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper wrote on 7/3/2025 :
Observed today, a Tesla coupe
If it's a coupe, it's a rare vehicle. Other than the Roadster, Tesla >>>>> models have featured four doors.
If so, I've misused "coupe". I meant only to specifiy that it wasn't
that cybertruck thing.
with a personalized license plate saying
"I Madeit". Poor guy. He thinks "making it" is buying an expensive >>>>>> vehicle that has just lost most of it's resale value.
Perhaps the plate is older than the Trump re-press.
Gasoline, by the way, is currently $2.68 per gallon at the Costco this >>>>>> area, and about $3.00 per gallon at regular gas stations.
I know which I would rather be behind at a drive-thru.
We have a Costco membership, but the store is not in an area where I
normally go.
Costco does have "drive-thru" gasoline pumps, and the lines do tend to
be long, and the engines of the waiting are typically running, but I
was referring to drive-thrus at fast food emporiums.
I don't follow. What has the price of gas have to do with the person
in front of you at the drive-through at a fast-food joint?
Nothing. You took a wrong turn.
It's no different from being in a line of traffic on a road.
What comes out of the tail pipe?
Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jul 2025 00:27:47 +0200, Bertel Lund Hansen
<rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> wrote:
Tony Cooper wrote:
Gasoline, by the way, is currently $2.68 per gallon at the Costco this >> >>>> area, and about $3.00 per gallon at regular gas stations.
Just for comparison:
The Danish gasoline costs $8.18 per (us)gallon.
Gasoline, in the US, is subject to state and county taxes (which is
built into the pump price, so the price of a gallon of gas will vary
state-to-state and even county-to-county in each state.
I can often drive 10 miles from one county to another and see a 10 to
20 cent difference in the per gallon price. It also varies day-by-day
in this area. I filled up last week at a WaWa station at $3.19 per
gallon, and today's price at the same station is $3.15, but it was
$3.09 earlier in the week.
The prices also vary in Denmark. Companies charge different prices, but
they don't differ as much as 20 cent. They also vary by day, but I don't
follow those prices closely because I drive an EV.
All prices are for "regular" gas. Also sold at the WaWa pump:
Midgrade: $3.55, Premium: $3.67, and Diesel: $3.65.
Most people in Denmark use what we call 95 octane. Does that correspond
to Midgrade?
Web says Regular 87 Midgrade 89-90 Premium 91-94
I have always used "regular", and never have experienced "engine ping"
from not high enough octane. In the owner's manual of my current and
recent vehicles "regular" is specified.
Yes, typical for third world countries.
Bertil's '95' is 'Euro 95' and not just for Denmark.
It is an Europe-wide grade, the lowest grade there is.
All standard cars sold in Europe use it.
It may contain up to 10% ethanol.
In practice 'Euro 95' and 'E10' are interchangeable labels.
There is also a 'super' at rating 98, with less than 5% ethanol,
for idiots who want to kill themselves in Lamborginis
and similar show-off things.
In the news this week, some supposedly famous football player,
(no doubt overpaid) did just that,
Observed today, a Tesla coupe with a personalized license plate saying
"I Madeit". Poor guy. He thinks "making it" is buying an expensive
vehicle that has just lost most of it's resale value.
On Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:20:27 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper is guilty of <09de6kh3loadddknl93qkhit6km5pnqiv1@4ax.com>
as of 7/3/2025 7:00:40 PM
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:40:17 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper scribbled something on Thursday the 7/3/2025:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:58:26 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper wrote on 7/3/2025 :
Observed today, a Tesla coupe
If it's a coupe, it's a rare vehicle. Other than the Roadster, Tesla >>>>> models have featured four doors.
If so, I've misused "coupe". I meant only to specifiy that it wasn't >>>> that cybertruck thing.
with a personalized license plate saying
"I Madeit". Poor guy. He thinks "making it" is buying an expensive >>>>>> vehicle that has just lost most of it's resale value.
Perhaps the plate is older than the Trump re-press.
Gasoline, by the way, is currently $2.68 per gallon at the Costco this >>>>>> area, and about $3.00 per gallon at regular gas stations.
I know which I would rather be behind at a drive-thru.
We have a Costco membership, but the store is not in an area where I >>>> normally go.
Costco does have "drive-thru" gasoline pumps, and the lines do tend to >>> be long, and the engines of the waiting are typically running, but I
was referring to drive-thrus at fast food emporiums.
I don't follow. What has the price of gas have to do with the person
in front of you at the drive-through at a fast-food joint?
Nothing. You took a wrong turn.
It's no different from being in a line of traffic on a road.
What comes out of the tail pipe?
I don't have any idea if the octane of the gasoline used affects the
exhaust fumes. However, I can't see how there's any difference
between being behind a car in a line of traffic and being behind a car
in a line at a drive-through.
On Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:20:27 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper is guilty of <09de6kh3loadddknl93qkhit6km5pnqiv1@4ax.com>
as of 7/3/2025 7:00:40 PM
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:40:17 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper scribbled something on Thursday the 7/3/2025:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:58:26 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper wrote on 7/3/2025 :
Observed today, a Tesla coupe
If it's a coupe, it's a rare vehicle. Other than the Roadster, Tesla >>>>>> models have featured four doors.
If so, I've misused "coupe". I meant only to specifiy that it wasn't >>>>> that cybertruck thing.
with a personalized license plate saying
"I Madeit". Poor guy. He thinks "making it" is buying an expensive >>>>>>> vehicle that has just lost most of it's resale value.
Perhaps the plate is older than the Trump re-press.
Gasoline, by the way, is currently $2.68 per gallon at the Costco this >>>>>>> area, and about $3.00 per gallon at regular gas stations.
I know which I would rather be behind at a drive-thru.
We have a Costco membership, but the store is not in an area where I >>>>> normally go.
Costco does have "drive-thru" gasoline pumps, and the lines do tend to >>>> be long, and the engines of the waiting are typically running, but I
was referring to drive-thrus at fast food emporiums.
I don't follow. What has the price of gas have to do with the person
in front of you at the drive-through at a fast-food joint?
Nothing. You took a wrong turn.
It's no different from being in a line of traffic on a road.
What comes out of the tail pipe?
I don't have any idea if the octane of the gasoline used affects the
exhaust fumes.
However, I can't see how there's any difference
between being behind a car in a line of traffic and being behind a car
in a line at a drive-through.
Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:20:27 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper is guilty of <09de6kh3loadddknl93qkhit6km5pnqiv1@4ax.com>
as of 7/3/2025 7:00:40 PM
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:40:17 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper scribbled something on Thursday the 7/3/2025:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:58:26 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper wrote on 7/3/2025 :
Observed today, a Tesla coupe
If it's a coupe, it's a rare vehicle. Other than the Roadster, Tesla >> >>>>> models have featured four doors.
If so, I've misused "coupe". I meant only to specifiy that it wasn't >> >>>> that cybertruck thing.
with a personalized license plate saying
"I Madeit". Poor guy. He thinks "making it" is buying an expensive >> >>>>>> vehicle that has just lost most of it's resale value.
Perhaps the plate is older than the Trump re-press.
Gasoline, by the way, is currently $2.68 per gallon at the Costco this
area, and about $3.00 per gallon at regular gas stations.
I know which I would rather be behind at a drive-thru.
We have a Costco membership, but the store is not in an area where I
normally go.
Costco does have "drive-thru" gasoline pumps, and the lines do tend to >> >>> be long, and the engines of the waiting are typically running, but I
was referring to drive-thrus at fast food emporiums.
I don't follow. What has the price of gas have to do with the person
in front of you at the drive-through at a fast-food joint?
Nothing. You took a wrong turn.
It's no different from being in a line of traffic on a road.
What comes out of the tail pipe?
I don't have any idea if the octane of the gasoline used affects the
exhaust fumes. However, I can't see how there's any difference
between being behind a car in a line of traffic and being behind a car
in a line at a drive-through.
Lower octane means more of them.
You have wastful cars, that burn underpriced petrol
at low efficiency.
Europeans have been squeezing all the energy they can get
out of a drop of petrol.
Lack of innovation caused the American motor industry to collapse.
In the end they made cars that not even Americans wanted to buy,
Tony Cooper wrote on 7/3/2025 :
Observed today, a Tesla coupe
If it's a coupe, it's a rare vehicle. Other than the Roadster, Tesla models have featured four doors.
with a personalized license plate saying
"I Madeit". Poor guy. He thinks "making it" is buying an expensive
vehicle that has just lost most of it's resale value.
Perhaps the plate is older than the Trump re-press.
Gasoline, by the way, is currently $2.68 per gallon at the Costco this
area, and about $3.00 per gallon at regular gas stations.
I know which I would rather be behind at a drive-thru.
/dps
Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:20:27 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper is guilty of <09de6kh3loadddknl93qkhit6km5pnqiv1@4ax.com>
as of 7/3/2025 7:00:40 PM
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:40:17 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper scribbled something on Thursday the 7/3/2025:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:58:26 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper wrote on 7/3/2025 :
Observed today, a Tesla coupe
If it's a coupe, it's a rare vehicle. Other than the Roadster, Tesla >> >>>>> models have featured four doors.
If so, I've misused "coupe". I meant only to specifiy that it wasn't >> >>>> that cybertruck thing.
with a personalized license plate saying
"I Madeit". Poor guy. He thinks "making it" is buying an expensive >> >>>>>> vehicle that has just lost most of it's resale value.
Perhaps the plate is older than the Trump re-press.
Gasoline, by the way, is currently $2.68 per gallon at the Costco this
area, and about $3.00 per gallon at regular gas stations.
I know which I would rather be behind at a drive-thru.
We have a Costco membership, but the store is not in an area where I
normally go.
Costco does have "drive-thru" gasoline pumps, and the lines do tend to >> >>> be long, and the engines of the waiting are typically running, but I
was referring to drive-thrus at fast food emporiums.
I don't follow. What has the price of gas have to do with the person
in front of you at the drive-through at a fast-food joint?
Nothing. You took a wrong turn.
It's no different from being in a line of traffic on a road.
What comes out of the tail pipe?
I don't have any idea if the octane of the gasoline used affects the
exhaust fumes. However, I can't see how there's any difference
between being behind a car in a line of traffic and being behind a car
in a line at a drive-through.
Lower octane means more of them.
You have wastful cars, that burn underpriced petrol
at low efficiency.
Europeans have been squeezing all the energy they can get
out of a drop of petrol.
Lack of innovation caused the American motor industry to collapse.
In the end they made cars that not even Americans wanted to buy,
Tony Cooper is guilty of <di1g6k9cjtdt50pifgnsqt81r28tt0etqf@4ax.com>
as of 7/4/2025 9:54:37 AM
On Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:20:27 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper is guilty of <09de6kh3loadddknl93qkhit6km5pnqiv1@4ax.com>
as of 7/3/2025 7:00:40 PM
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:40:17 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper scribbled something on Thursday the 7/3/2025:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:58:26 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote:
Tony Cooper wrote on 7/3/2025 :
Observed today, a Tesla coupe
If it's a coupe, it's a rare vehicle. Other than the Roadster, Tesla >>>>>>> models have featured four doors.
If so, I've misused "coupe". I meant only to specifiy that it wasn't >>>>>> that cybertruck thing.
with a personalized license plate saying
"I Madeit". Poor guy. He thinks "making it" is buying an expensive >>>>>>>> vehicle that has just lost most of it's resale value.
Perhaps the plate is older than the Trump re-press.
Gasoline, by the way, is currently $2.68 per gallon at the Costco this >>>>>>>> area, and about $3.00 per gallon at regular gas stations.
I know which I would rather be behind at a drive-thru.
We have a Costco membership, but the store is not in an area where I >>>>>> normally go.
Costco does have "drive-thru" gasoline pumps, and the lines do tend to >>>>> be long, and the engines of the waiting are typically running, but I >>>>> was referring to drive-thrus at fast food emporiums.
I don't follow. What has the price of gas have to do with the person
in front of you at the drive-through at a fast-food joint?
Nothing. You took a wrong turn.
It's no different from being in a line of traffic on a road.
What comes out of the tail pipe?
I don't have any idea if the octane of the gasoline used affects the
exhaust fumes.
Wasn't my point, but pesumably efficiency of combustion comes into
play.
However, I can't see how there's any difference
between being behind a car in a line of traffic and being behind a car
in a line at a drive-through.
There isn't. But it's nice to be behind an /electric/ vehicle when in
a line.
However, I can't see how there's any difference
between being behind a car in a line of traffic and being behind a car
in a line at a drive-through.
There isn't. But it's nice to be behind an /electric/ vehicle when in
a line.
Good that something gives you comfort, but I have never noticed a
difference.
Tony Cooper wrote:
However, I can't see how there's any difference
between being behind a car in a line of traffic and being behind a car >>>> in a line at a drive-through.
There isn't. But it's nice to be behind an /electric/ vehicle when in
a line.
Good that something gives you comfort, but I have never noticed a
difference.
I think that it's a question of the air that your air condition sucks
in.
On Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:27:27 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper is guilty of <di1g6k9cjtdt50pifgnsqt81r28tt0etqf@4ax.com>
as of 7/4/2025 9:54:37 AM
On Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:20:27 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper is guilty of <09de6kh3loadddknl93qkhit6km5pnqiv1@4ax.com> >>>> as of 7/3/2025 7:00:40 PM
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:40:17 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper scribbled something on Thursday the 7/3/2025:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:58:26 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> >>>>>>> wrote:
Tony Cooper wrote on 7/3/2025 :
Observed today, a Tesla coupe
If it's a coupe, it's a rare vehicle. Other than the Roadster, Tesla >>>>>>>> models have featured four doors.
If so, I've misused "coupe". I meant only to specifiy that it wasn't >>>>>>> that cybertruck thing.
with a personalized license plate saying
"I Madeit". Poor guy. He thinks "making it" is buying an expensive >>>>>>>>> vehicle that has just lost most of it's resale value.
Perhaps the plate is older than the Trump re-press.
Gasoline, by the way, is currently $2.68 per gallon at the Costco >>>>>>>>> this area, and about $3.00 per gallon at regular gas stations. >>>>>>>>I know which I would rather be behind at a drive-thru.
We have a Costco membership, but the store is not in an area where I >>>>>>> normally go.
Costco does have "drive-thru" gasoline pumps, and the lines do tend to >>>>>> be long, and the engines of the waiting are typically running, but I >>>>>> was referring to drive-thrus at fast food emporiums.
I don't follow. What has the price of gas have to do with the person >>>>> in front of you at the drive-through at a fast-food joint?
Nothing. You took a wrong turn.
It's no different from being in a line of traffic on a road.
What comes out of the tail pipe?
I don't have any idea if the octane of the gasoline used affects the
exhaust fumes.
Wasn't my point, but pesumably efficiency of combustion comes into
play.
However, I can't see how there's any difference
between being behind a car in a line of traffic and being behind a car
in a line at a drive-through.
There isn't. But it's nice to be behind an /electric/ vehicle when in
a line.
Good that something gives you comfort, but I have never noticed a
difference.
On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 15:43:34 +0200, nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
Lodder) wrote:
Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:20:27 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper is guilty of <09de6kh3loadddknl93qkhit6km5pnqiv1@4ax.com>
as of 7/3/2025 7:00:40 PM
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:40:17 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tony Cooper scribbled something on Thursday the 7/3/2025:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:58:26 -0700, Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> >> >>>> wrote:
Tony Cooper wrote on 7/3/2025 :
Observed today, a Tesla coupe
If it's a coupe, it's a rare vehicle. Other than the Roadster, Tesla
models have featured four doors.
If so, I've misused "coupe". I meant only to specifiy that it wasn't >> >>>> that cybertruck thing.
with a personalized license plate saying
"I Madeit". Poor guy. He thinks "making it" is buying an expensive
vehicle that has just lost most of it's resale value.
Perhaps the plate is older than the Trump re-press.
Gasoline, by the way, is currently $2.68 per gallon at the
Costco this area, and about $3.00 per gallon at regular gas
stations.
I know which I would rather be behind at a drive-thru.
We have a Costco membership, but the store is not in an area where I >> >>>> normally go.
Costco does have "drive-thru" gasoline pumps, and the lines do tend to >> >>> be long, and the engines of the waiting are typically running, but I >> >>> was referring to drive-thrus at fast food emporiums.
I don't follow. What has the price of gas have to do with the person >> >> in front of you at the drive-through at a fast-food joint?
Nothing. You took a wrong turn.
It's no different from being in a line of traffic on a road.
What comes out of the tail pipe?
I don't have any idea if the octane of the gasoline used affects the
exhaust fumes. However, I can't see how there's any difference
between being behind a car in a line of traffic and being behind a car
in a line at a drive-through.
Lower octane means more of them.
You have wastful cars, that burn underpriced petrol
at low efficiency.
Europeans have been squeezing all the energy they can get
out of a drop of petrol.
The reading on my vehicle shows my gallons-per-mile is 27.2 for the
current fill-up. That all city, start-and-stop, driving. The gpm
figure is better when it includes highway driving.
Lack of innovation caused the American motor industry to collapse.
In the end they made cars that not even Americans wanted to buy,
The three top-selling brands of automobiles in the US, in order, are
Toyota, Ford, and Chevrolet. Toyota barely leads Ford in sales.
Following those three are Honda, Nissan, Kia, and Hyundai. None are European brands.
I would not say that lower cost-of-labor is a "innovation", and that's
the aspect that gave imported automobiles their US foot-hold.
There isn't. But it's nice to be behind an /electric/ vehicle when in >>>>a line.
Good that something gives you comfort, but I have never noticed a
difference.
I think that it's a question of the air that your air condition sucks
in.
Yes...I know that, but I've never noticed a difference between behind
an electric vehicle or a gasoline vehicle. Bus, yes. An old vehicle
that needs a ring job (or whatever it is that causes black exhaust),
yes, but ordinary traffic, no.