That inflation is a large part of why consumers are sensitive to this price increase. This is fundamentally a purchase with disposable income. Inflation reduces the disposable Income of the population until (if ever) wages catch up with inflation.

I can carry my groceries on my bike pretty easily. How out of shape are you?

Hey, I fell asleep halfway through your comment. Can you make it more engaging for me?

Peter Jackson’s King Kong

Man, where are people seeing all these cyclists? I have never seen a cyclist run a red light in my entire life but I have seen well over a hundred cars do the same thing.

I think Satisfactory hits a few of these targets, if you haven’t already tried it. The amount of resources is determined by a map that is not procedurally generated, so there is a hard cap to your resources per minute, though the resources never run out. So end game focuses more on playing efficiently rather than brute expansion.

Yup. This is why the whole ‘States rights’ argument is absolutely bullshit. The only states trying to bring the federal government in to usurp other states’ authority were the slave states.

Here I am, getting a PhD with an intention to teach high school.

You’re probably right about it not saving enough money, but the math you did above assumes one water heater per person.

The median household in the US is about 2.5 people. So $34 per year per person becomes $85 per household. Reducing the time to break even to 17.3 years.

Still longer than that water heater is likely to last, but not quite as bad.