The high cost of cutting grass

[ultrarunner]

Lots of benefits to mowed lawn/grass but water is taking the biggest toll here.

Maintained turf is a good fire and pest barrier unlike rock landscape that every kid feels the need to throw... or so it seems.

Turf cuts down on dust and can help soil retain moisture

That said every two weeks is my schedule for 10 months of the year...

 

[Torvy]

Easy to spend over $5...

I had unexpected trip and filled up at a Shell and paid $5.29 for regular with credit.

Some stations are heading to &
$6 for premium with credit card...

Remember when pumps couldn't go higher than 99.9 a gallon so they switched to Liter pricing...

Ouch...I usually fill up at Sam's Club...it was just about $3 last week. I drive by a Quick Trip to/from work. It was $3.39 last night (up about 20 cents in the last 24-48 hours) The CA tax per gallon is about 42 cents (and change) more than TX. The rest is likely due to regional cost of living.

 

[BnRidge]

So there is a lot going on. Free market vs intervention, value added as in a phone vs a raw commodity, efficiency and productivity, supply vs demand. In my world, I look at the extreme labor reduction from using fuels and think what on earth is everyone complaining about. I just got done cutting up 6 cords of wood, and am not quite through 2 gallons. I look at the picture on the wall of dad cutting wood, in 1950, with a cross cut saw. If it came down to it, what would I be willing to spend today to get that work done. Same with so many other things. So what is the "real" complaint.

 

[ultrarunner]

My top 3 complaints are:

1. The Ban on using bought and paid for gasoline powered equipment

2. Inability to purchase real gas unless willing to pay $20+ per gallon as no end to fuel issues with the blends and older carb equipment

3. The rapid possibly doubling in price over a 30 month period coupled with again being import dependant.

 

[billypumper]

Sheep or goats and a donkey they hate coyotes, stomp them in the ground if they get close, yes donkeys, maybe one Aussie or Border Collie, too many pups and they forget their job. Always only needed one Aussie for 100 head of cattle, they're harder to move than sheep.

 

[billypumper]

Where you live for 5 dollars a gallon, I buy ethanol free gas for 4.35 and diesel for 4.25, I love in the Midwest in the 5th highest state gas tax in the country, California is the highest.

 

[greggyy]

Get some sheep.

Sheep/cattle.... I only have small area here but sheep keep it perfect. you can slightly understock, or over if you like th eno grass look

 

[jyoutz]

My top 3 complaints are:

1. The Ban on using bought and paid for gasoline powered equipment

2. Inability to purchase real gas unless willing to pay $20+ per gallon as no end to fuel issues with the blends and older carb equipment

3. The rapid possibly doubling in price over a 30 month period coupled with again being import dependant.

Import dependent, yet our oil companies are exporting oil (thanks to the 2018 Congress).

 

[Torvy]

Import dependent, yet our oil companies are exporting oil (thanks to the 2018 Congress).

Not really an issue. The point of being import independent is that in a crisis, we will be fine. Given different grades of oil and market forces there is 100% nothing wrong with exporting oil. The problem lies when we shut down our own capacity to produce while simultaneously giving other, less open nations, a green light to increase production.

 

[jyoutz]

Not really an issue. The point of being import independent is that in a crisis, we will be fine. Given different grades of oil and market forces there is 100% nothing wrong with exporting oil. The problem lies when we shut down our own capacity to produce while simultaneously giving other, less open nations, a green light to increase production.

Oil companies have years worth of undrilled lease acres. Increasing or shutdown of capacity are decisions made by the oil companies themselves. At any point in time, there are millions of acres of undrilled leases ready to go. The BLM shows 26 million acres of federal lands where leases are issued and much of these acres have no activity due to the business decisions of the lease holder.

https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/report-on-the-federal-oil-and-gas-leasing-program-doi-eo-14008.pdf

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