Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 8:00 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 1:00 pm
Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 12:26 pm
jhu72 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 11:52 am
Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 11:22 am
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 10:50 am
Petey, you are doing a miserable job of "staying away".
The notion that DeSantis isn't purposely dividing and inflaming his electorate is ridiculous. He fans the flames of outrage, anger and resentment, already present in his hard core base, at every possible turn.
But yeah, I'd predict too that he's going to win going away in this cycle in this state. So, so many yahoos here.
My wife and I were traveling across the state from Stuart to Tampa the other day, a whole lot of flat area, lots and lots of cows and some evidence of big agribusiness, plus some tin shacks and trailers clustered together. We stopped at a Pilot for a break. As we were walking out, my wife said, "let's get out of here" in a stressed tone, hustling me up...and she doesn't get that way easily...I hadn't experienced anything particularly abnormal, but apparently she had in the bathroom...a woman in the next stall had let out a small shriek and my wife had asked whether she was ok. the woman said she'd recently gained a lot of weight and had lost her balance. She then started talking, rambling about how the world was coming to an end on July 9, that the currency was going to collapse that day, and that it was all Biden's fault..."that d-mn Biden"...and she needed to lose weight...
Most aren't as extreme nutcases as this gal, but hoo boy, just walk through the local flea market...gun shops, flag shops, smoke shops, and lots of Trump stickers...and then try visiting the Villages..or most any other midscale 55+ 'retirement' area...
Like I said, I’m trying to stay away but posters like yourself keep posting nonsense. Take the above for example.
Firstly, Pilots are mostly for truckers and hookers. I can’t blame you for not knowing this since you’re a country club fellow, but my advice to you would be to not stop at a Pilot. You’ll enjoy your time far more at a Buc-eees or Wawa.
Secondly, you were driving mostly through big ag. Big ag and small ag despise Biden and Democrats, for good reason. Don’t blame folks whose livelihoods are being wrecked by Democratic policies for not slavishly bowing down to the guy.
Finally, this woman sounds like she was having a meth reaction. If you were as kind as you claim, you should have helped her, not blasted her on a public website. Maybe pay for her gasoline next time?
"mostly truckers and hookers". Is this just a Florida phenomenon or everywhere there are Pilot stations or just in agricultural areas?
beyond that, I wouldn't know where else to start with this nonsensical response.
You fellows are some kind of naive. Lol
Anyway, the better news for me and the worse news for MD is the owners of Pilot are massive Republican donors.
they also own the Cleveland Browns.
And why would that bother me?
well, I do like it when my Ravens beat the Browns...
Here's a question for you Petey: do you think Pilot will take federal infrastructure spending or tax credits for installing electric stations? Or will they refuse it?
Your first decent post with a legit question.
Electric is going to upend a ton of markets, operators, and obviously infrastructure. Aviation is one of them. Within 50 years, life as we know it for fossil fuels will be radically different. I’m not sure that gas retailers can survive on their current business model. If you look at a Buc-eees, this company is radically changing the nature of a gas station, massively expanding services and offerings.
Human beings and dogs do not change however. So we will always need or want to stop every few hours in a car to take a whizzer. A company like Buc-eees will survive, because the gas will not be their main offering, it hardly is today. Pure gasoline offering stations will fall.
I don’t know the answer to the tax credit question. If it’s ‘free money’ to the Pilots of the world, I’m sure they’ll grab it if their competitors are. I’ll assure you this: in fifty years, fuel will not be their primary profit driver.
It might be news to you, but Wawa, which you had mentioned, and likeminded convenience gas stores make far more on their store sales than they do selling gas, not simply on a margin basis, but also in gross profits. Gas is just a loss leader, or at best extremely low contributor. Pure gas stations are already failing rapidly.
I have two friends in the business, the owner of Royal Farms, which is much like Wawa, and another who failed to convince his father to convert their gas stores (Crown) to this strategy two decades ago and eventually had to sell/liquidate their holdings in the retail business.
Pilot looks to me to be very similarly positioned, with huge in-store footprints by comparison to most gas stations, using low priced fuel to attract the in-store traffic.
I'd predict that not only will Republican donor Pilot gladly accept infrastructure dollars, they'll use those outlets to compete for lowest cost position as well.
Getting the big trucks off diesel will require some additional technology, but it's happening...but cars and busses are already obviously there. Caveat that they need better battery tech, that doesn't require lithium. The US has some of the largest lithium reserves in the world, but the processing requires enormous amounts of water, and that's not easily available where the lithem is...but new tech is coming.
