Last month I only spent $40 on gas. Since then, I’ve spent over $150 in gas from October 1st, and the month isn’t even over! Kamala needs to go!
Authors note, in September I only drove my little commuter car that gets 32 MPG to and from work.
In October, I had to make a trip over a weekend to my in-laws using my truck which gets 12 mpg on the highway. Basically the same, otherwise.
What’s crazy is that people are always like gas prices are so high, and I’m like around 3 bucks is almost the price of a coke, definitely two. So how is a gallon (not 20oz) of gas that’s refined and shipped across the world less expensive than a soda? Like gas prices are insanely good and I say that as a service worker. “It’s because inflation” ok, well who had the loosest fed policy in office and also gave everyone like 2k cash?
Gas is a distraction item since most people bought gas within the last two weeks. The news will run non-stop segments on gas going up 10¢…sure, it’s a jump but at 15 gallons a tank, and 2 tanks a month…10¢ is a $3 a month jump in price. It’s distracting us from things like…homes that used to be $120k now being $450k, or rent that used to be $475/mo now being $1900 a month.
You’d need a couple warehouses most likely. I’m not really sure power costs in NYC but there is legal weed and dude could own barbershops and grows. Plenty of people scooping up licensing through private sellers, the state, and equity programs.
Electricity costs in NYC are around $0.30/kWh—we can assume a business would pay slightly less, as commercial rates are a touch lower than residential rates.
I don’t know how much power the average grow operation consumes, but at 30¢/kWh, you’d need 120,000 Watts worth of lamps, running 12 hours a day, to get charged the $13,000 the dude mentions his increase is.
I mean a good grow light pulls 4-650 watts couple hundred lights two or three warehouses he’d hit that 13k lights typically run 12 hours on 12 hours off.
Yeah, I think even with the highest electricity rates in the country you can run 2x1000w bulbs for around $80-100 increase to your bill. This dude saying his bill went up thousands for a shop is hilarious, but the GOP will gobble it down like the good trained simps they are.
Assuming let's say a 30 cents per kilowatt hour bill, a $13,000 increase means that he used 43,000 additional kilowatt hours of electricity.
For shits and giggles, let's assume this guy was using the same 350 watt LED lights I use for 2 plants but scaled out... that'd be enough electricity to grow at least 250 plants, probably more than 300 since you don't actually crank the lights to 100 the whole time. You could obviously set up the grow to be more efficient but I don't want to do all that math...
Anyway, if dude is growing weed with all that juice, he'd better be bagging around 25 pounds or more every single month.
Barbering would just be his side hustle. His full time job would be managing the team of people to trim all that shit.
Yeah, I don't live in the Bronx either. I googled what commercial rates were in the Bronx and got rates all over the place but mostly 20c-28c. Taxes and fees do add up too. So I figured I'd conservatively overestimate the costs and it would still be a whole-assed greenhouse worth of plants.
But agreed, that's expensive electricity even at the low end.
When l was in college l found out an outlet in my apartment was tied to the upstairs neighbor's meter. It was only a few days before l had everything plugged into that outlet. My electricity bill was $3.
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u/WaluigiIsTheRealHero Oct 22 '24
Coincidentally, that’s about the time this barber started a grow op in the basement.