Congrats - that’s exactly what I said. That is the trade that was made for the modern world. If you don’t like that trade then the template is still fresh - ask the Amish if you need a clue.

The only people the petroleum guys have by the throat are those who made their societies dependent on petroleum. It’s been less than 100 years out of the last 150,000 years of human civilization; it’s reversible, though that will be somewhat painful as cheap cars and roads and food water and sanitation are nice to…

So few think to pack an umbrella when there is no chance for rain.

I think they didn’t account for the number of tightly controlled industries deciding -now- was the time to go on a massive raiding party and strip the consumers bare.

Yes - this. Even paying cash - a customer says “Put $5 on pump 1" and the worker thinks it’s for a lawn mower gas can. The pump figures out how much to pump to get to $5.

Sorry - I should have checked the math - It will take nearly 1 million dollars in sales to make this up.

Could be - That’s roughly 3500 cars fully filled in 48 hours, or a bit over one car per minute, back-to back for the full 48 hours.

The problem is that the margins on gasoline is a few percent. Recovering from this may mean selling a quarter million dollars in retail.

Please have that looked at. Warm is good, but fuzzies can be the sign of a more serious issue.

The sign that cried wolf. If it’s always blinking some stupid message it won’t get as much attention when it has one that is important.

Good news - your case is 180 degrees away from exactly what this discussion is about. You’d know that if you read the first couple of sentences. “only respond to active crimes and life-threatening calls” would be exactly what you wanted.

$500,000 covers about 5 officers, split between salaries, benefits, cars, electronics, training costs, and support.

Depends on what else the drones can be programmed to do.

As if Amazon drivers aren’t already doing damage.

On a scale of 1:10 is this worse than the sound of a 50 hp field mower being used on a postage stamp residential lot followed by 20 minutes of weed whacker to get the places a field mower cannot reach followed by another 20 minutes of leaf blower being used to cover for the fact that a 2-3 week schedule of cutting…

Check for damage consistent with the use of a sonic screwdriver.

So - one battery has high current delivery and the other has high energy density? Seems like a reasonable thing to try and doesn’t sound totally fictional like some other schemes.

Nice.

How do you get so many cars stolen from you? Seems like insurance fraud.

Sure, 100% of police chases end in crashes. Per CHP it’s