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Oculus Spirit [85714]
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My mortgage balance is exactly $1,000 off from
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Feb 8, 2024, 8:43 AM
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$69,420.
And I bought gas on Friday morning.
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Lot o points [156132]
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Damson. SC really did raise their gas taxes I guess?
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Feb 8, 2024, 8:47 AM
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2.93 for premium here yesterday.
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Oculus Spirit [85714]
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SC average, $2.91 and TN is $2.84
Feb 8, 2024, 8:58 AM
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Now they want to add a penny tax for county roads. Does that mean the gas tax didn't go to any county roads? I guess that's what it means.
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It's not cheap to send their staff to Gaza to learn road maintenance techniques.***
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:00 AM
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Lot o points [156132]
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Oculus Spirit [85714]
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Lot o points [156132]
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Meaning I have no idea where aaa gets them from
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:32 AM
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Maybe they just sampled downtown nashville, Pigeon Forge, and the highway exit stations, cause they’re wrong
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Oculus Spirit [85714]
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I like how you do an analysis from my post and your driving through town
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:34 AM
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and have the actual state average figured out already.
*bro hug
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Lot o points [156132]
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I dont GAS about state averages.
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:37 AM
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You’re in rural Anderson. I’m in rural Nashville. Is it or is it not surprising that premium is $.80 more there? It was to me and that’s all I’m saying. I’m not insulting your family lineage or anything as defensive as you’re getting about it.
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Oculus Spirit [85714]
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I don't buy gas in TN
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:41 AM
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and I don't buy premium.
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Oculus Spirit [85714]
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Lot o points [156132]
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thank you sir***
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Feb 8, 2024, 10:00 AM
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go down to Willco
Feb 8, 2024, 11:11 AM
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easily 75 cents to a dollar more per gallon everywhere but Costco
bout lostmydamnmind a couple weeks ago when I had to drive down there for work.
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Oculus Spirit [97882]
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I filled up for $2.63 yesterday. Same place this AM was $2.95
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:11 AM
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Who knows. As for the gas tax, most people don't understand the problem we have in SC.
See, for oh, about 20 YEARS, NC and GA had higher gas taxes, and they used that money on roads, and their roads are FAR better than SC has. So, in order to "fix" the problem, we raised our gas tax, overriding Gubnah Mack Master's veto. Now this was sold as the solution. Raise the tax to equal GA and NC, and our roads will improve to their level. Doesn't work that way. All raising gas taxes does, effectively, is stops our decline relative to our neighboring states. It does NOTHING to catch us up to their level. For us to catch up to their level, we would have to have a gas tax ABOVE their current gas tax, relative to the level we were once UNDER it, and then, in 20 years, our roads would match theirs.
Now to Gubnah Mack Master's credit, he has blown the majority of our covid relief on roads, which gives us a big boost towards catching up. But aside from that, the tax we have on gas alone will never get us there.
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Oculus Spirit [85714]
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Two roads near me that I travelled frequently that were terrible
Feb 8, 2024, 9:14 AM
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absolutely terrible.....were repaved. Now they are awesome.
Butt, I know of two bridges that have been out for over a year on county roads.
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I just replaced my third windshield on my car. The THIRD.
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:30 AM
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On the same car. Each time, it was from rocks flying up from a crumbling interstate. I-26 north of the construction mess up to Newberry is horrible for rocks flying up. The interstate is cracking, has pot holes, and trucks kick up debris all the time in that area. I JUST GOT A DING AGAIN yesterday, same area of interstate where I got the last crack.
Now they have repaved the worst parts, and the new pavement is rougher than the old pavement, but at least rocks aren't flying up anymore. It's a sad contractor who did that work, whoever it was. And before they repaved a couple of miles of it, I would usually see 2, 3, sometimes 4 or 5 cars over in the emergency lane with flat tires after hitting potholes.
I-95 was repaved in concrete, maybe 10-15 years ago. It's horrible now. After every slab, there's a dip that is cracking and creating huge holes.
Part of our problem is also using sub-par contractors who cut corners.
Oh, and Carolina Crossroads is still dead in the water until they can figure out the most important part, again. Seems when planning the 1.whatever billion dollar project they forgot to take into account moving utilities and infrastructure. So they've started building bridges and roads to connect into a project that's dead in the water. Nice.
Oh, and I-26 was going to be finished ahead of schedule, giving the contractor a nice bonus too. Gubnah Mack Master and the head of SCDOT even used the project as a stage for a photo-op and press conference. They gushed about how well the project was coming along, and under budget and ahead of schedule. Like 2-3 days later SCDOT sends an inspector out who rips the contractors, then adds all kinds of stuff they were not planning to do, to slow the project down. Of course this was after the press conference. No doubt SCDOT wants to slow things down as much as possible to avoid paying the extra $$$ for early completion.
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Oculus Spirit [85714]
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I'm not reading all of that
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:36 AM
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2 windshield replacements here in the last 20 years. The last a rock flew off the back of a trailer and wasn't from debris already in the road.
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Oculus Spirit [97882]
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2 of my three were from the road. One, unknown.
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:44 AM
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But yesterday was hearing the dings again on the brand new windshield, from debris from the road.
I purposefully stay way back from dump trucks and flatbeds. Still, the regular semi trucks can somehow kick up rocks and I don't even tailgate or stay close to them.
I dunno. Maybe windshields suck more now.
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I feel validated. Screw the lying AAA and their cabal of conspirators.***
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Feb 8, 2024, 10:40 AM
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yeah, these are real-time prices, not averages from a few reported stations
Feb 8, 2024, 11:04 AM
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I started monitoring this site when I noticed sometimes the price would jump up a quarter/gal between 8am and lunchtime some days, but for some reason, (insert sarcasm font - never ever that large of a drop).
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Oculus Spirit [85714]
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Lot o points [156132]
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Yeah the premium price is what gave me pause.
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:03 AM
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It’s .80 more than here. I’m not used to seeing SC that far off, unless you’re at an interstate exit gas station or something.
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Re: My mortgage balance is exactly $1,000 off from
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Feb 8, 2024, 8:52 AM
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110%er [7016]
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Nice.
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:13 AM
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How am I the first to post this?
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110%er [7016]
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Also, holy humblebrag on that mortgage balance!
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:20 AM
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All those stumps must be sitting on pots of gold. Good for you.
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That's just the mortgage on his shed.***
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:21 AM
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Oculus Spirit [85714]
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It's funny, I paid cash money for the shed
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:30 AM
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but I had to take out a loan for the concrete.
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Joke's on them. That's the one thing they can't repo.***
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:38 AM
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Oculus Spirit [85714]
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I'm a man, I'm 40, I have a degree from Clemson
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:29 AM
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I could see a scenario where people like me have no mortgage, a $400K balance or anywhere in between.
Ts and Ps for the young folks that bought their first home after 2022.
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Tone it down there, crulez.***
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:39 AM
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Oculus Spirit [85714]
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I thought I could freely discuss the mortgage balance
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:43 AM
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because it's a huge variable more dependent on age than income. I didn't say I could pay it off today using our money market account that has a balance of X.
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I think the bigger flex is posting an underwater mortgage because
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:50 AM
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if you're not constantly skirting the fringes of bankruptcy, how soft are you as a man?
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Re: I think the bigger flex is posting an underwater mortgage because
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:53 AM
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Oculus Spirit [85714]
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Better than income though, right?
Feb 8, 2024, 11:38 AM
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Of course, if you go through divorce, well....that's not good for debt.
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I couldnt tell you within probably 100k
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:36 AM
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of where our mortgage stands. Just pay and go. My wife probably knows but I have no clue.
It’s not worth even wasting a thought on with interest rates where they are and kids in school.
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Lot o points [181248]
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Congrats on catching up to GA gas prices. Maybe even passing them
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:50 AM
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in some places. Mortgage left is 50k.
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Oculus Spirit [85714]
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You should see how we compare to TN!***
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Feb 8, 2024, 9:51 AM
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Lot o points [156132]
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You're the old slac tiger of gas prices.
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Feb 8, 2024, 10:46 AM
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YOU DON'T LIVE THERE SO DON'T GO CARING ABOUT IT!!!!!
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