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[RobGMN Premium Member]

Can you prove an actual fact? One not based on your feelings or the use of Google?

Unlike you, I don’t ever post my feelings or opinions as if they are fact here.
What fact would you like? None of the ones I post are from Google since Google is merely an index. Do you think you read Shakespeare in the card catalog at the library, or from the actual book?

Go ahead, ask for a fact.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Unlike you, I don’t ever post my feelings or opinions as if they are fact here.
What fact would you like? None of the ones I post are from Google since Google is merely an index. Do you think you read Shakespeare in the card catalog at the library, or from the actual book?

Go ahead, ask for a fact.

I posed a simple question to you. The response above is what your brain told you to spit out?

A simple YES or NO would do.

Google is a search engine. It is not an index, it HAS an index.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

I posed a simple question to you. The response above is what your brain told you to spit out?

A simple YES or NO would do.

Google is a search engine. It is not an index, it HAS an index.

You posed two questions.
Are you going to ask for a fact, or not?

Google would disagree with your assessment. But what do THEY know, they're "fallible", right?
"The Google Search index contains hundreds of billions of webpages and is well over 100,000,000 gigabytes in size. It’s like the index in the back of a book — with an entry for every word seen on every webpage we index. When we index a webpage, we add it to the entries for all of the words it contains."
"The Google index is similar to an index in a library"

When you submit a query, Google isn't going out and searching ("crawling") the web for answers, any more than a librarian walks around scanning the shelves for a book by name. It simply points to the relevant spot in the index.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

You posed two questions.
Are you going to ask for a fact, or not?

Google would disagree with your assessment. But what do THEY know, they're "fallible", right?
"The Google Search index contains hundreds of billions of webpages and is well over 100,000,000 gigabytes in size. It’s like the index in the back of a book — with an entry for every word seen on every webpage we index. When we index a webpage, we add it to the entries for all of the words it contains."
"The Google index is similar to an index in a library"

When you submit a query, Google isn't going out and searching ("crawling") the web for answers, any more than a librarian walks around scanning the shelves for a book by name. It simply points to the relevant spot in the index.

Wow, just wow Rob. Google is a search engine WITH an index. Google itself IS NOT an index. You are 100% wrong. How did you read that and not comprehend what was said???? The Google SEARCH ENGINE searches the Google index. Try to argue it fucktard, try!!

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Wow, just wow Rob. Google is a search engine WITH an index. Google itself IS NOT an index. You are 100% wrong. How did you read that and not comprehend what was said???? The Google SEARCH ENGINE searches the Google index. Try to argue it fucktard, try!!

You think you are accessing the web crawlers when you type in a query?
So you DO think you are doing a book search when you look at the card catalog in a library. That makes sense as to your confusion over Google web crawls and the index reader.
Do you think you can quote a line from a Tom Clancy novel by looking in the card catalog?

THEIR words: "uses software known as web crawlers that explore the web regularly to find pages to add to our index" YOUR QUERY ON THE GOOGLE PAGE IS NOT CRAWLING THE WEB TO GET YOUR ANSWER, IT IS SIMPLY OPENING THE CARD CATALOG TO THE SPOT THAT TELLS YOUR WHERE THE INFO IS.
Sorry if that ruins your visions of little nanobots scrambling around to get your link.

So, are you going to ask for a fact or not?

 

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[El Wapo]

Ahhhh, those “nefarious averages” again.
I’m sorry you got confused by the phrase “real gas prices”. What that phrase means is that you are being provided a context that shows you what’s those numbers are RELATIVE TO 2021.

You can claim gas prices were cheaper in 1978 when you were 4 y.o. or so, but when you adjust for other factors that determine your actual costs, gas prices were MORE back then.

Do yourself a favor: don’t argue math concepts that you simply do not understand. It really makes you seem unintelligent.

You fail to acknowledge that the current cost of gas is more than double what is was when biden took office. So before you claim your intellectual superiority.....educate yourself first. You are proving with every post how uneducated you actually are and how addicted 6o the kool-aid you are.

 

[El Wapo]

An important statistic, but it doesn’t speak to the real cost per gallon. If you read the accompanying article, they specifically speak to two variables: amount used plus changing efficiency of cars.

If a household doubles its usage, you can’t say the cost per gallon price increased, even though their expenditure has. Similarly, you can’t say the per gallon cost decreased when the family replaced their suburban with a Camry.

This explains it better than I could:”A real value(price) is one which has been adjusted for inflation, enabling comparison of quantities as if the prices of goods had not changed on average. Changes in value in real terms therefore exclude the effect of inflation.”

To use a real-world question: Which is more expensive, a $10,000 car in 1978, or a $22,000 car in 2022?

So which is cheaper. A gallon of gas in 2020 for $2.15 or a gallon of gas for $5.50 I'm 2022? Adjust that for inflation....

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

You fail to acknowledge that the current cost of gas is more than double what is was when biden took office. So before you claim your intellectual superiority.....educate yourself first. You are proving with every post how uneducated you actually are and how addicted 6o the kool-aid you are.

I'm also not shouting from the treetops that it was never as high under the Obama admin as it was under Bush, or that it spiked immediately after Trump took office, or that Trump made an effort to get Opec to increase prices.
None of those facts are relevant to the real price of gas over time which has been proved to be dropping, in 2021 dollars was less than ten cents (8.4 cents to be exact) more than it was in 2020 (the lowest priced year under Trump).

IF you make $100,000 a year and spend 3% of your income on gas as your sole energy source, that's $3,000 in gas per year. At $3.13 a gallon, you bought 958.46 gallons. At $3.049 a gallon you got 983.9 gallons.
That means you had to pay for 1/2 gallon more per week. A DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS PER WEEK.

If a $1.50 a week increase breaks the bank for you while earning $100,000 a year, it's time to learn a little about personal finances.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

So which is cheaper. A gallon of gas in 2020 for $2.15 or a gallon of gas for $5.50 I'm 2022? Adjust that for inflation....View attachment 42468

Gas averaged $5.50 a gallon in 2022? That's cool math, considering we have 3 1/2 months left in 2022, the average so far is $4.20, and gas prices seem to be dropping daily.

And where TF are you buying gas for $5.50 a gallon?
I paid $3.03 on my last fill up. You're getting suckered, bud.

 

[El Wapo]

None of this proved anything. Why did you waste your time? Damn you are stupid.

Like Ronald Reagan said.....liberals know so much about so little and are actually proud of the fact.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Like Ronald Reagan said.....liberals know so much about so little and are actually proud of the fact.View attachment 42472

Memes are cheap. Present your argument and back it up.
I forget - are you Thxone, Buck, or the old FakeJesus?

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

IF you make $100,000 a year and spend 3% of your income on gas as your sole energy source, that's $3,000 in gas per year. At $3.13 a gallon, you bought 958.46 gallons. At $3.049 a gallon you got 983.9 gallons.
That means you had to pay for 1/2 gallon more per week. A DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS PER WEEK.

You're scenario is where you averages fall flat...before gas prices starting spiking up...I was paying 2.09 - 2.25 g...prices run up to a shade over $5 here...now they're at 3.29...that's not a buck fifty a week...and that just me in my area...I bet I'm not alone either...

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

You're scenario is where you averages fall flat...before gas prices starting spiking up...I was paying 2.09 - 2.25 g...prices run up to a shade over $5 here...now they're at 3.29...that's not a buck fifty a week...and that just me in my area...I bet I'm not alone either...

Expenses over time.
Do you fill up a storage tank in your yard when prices are at a peak, and then fill your car from that, or do you go the the pumps 1-3x a week like most people?

I personally fill at the pump; my annual purchases can be calculated for a weekly average.It’s called “budgeting”.
My local electricity provider does a similar thing. They even let you pay the estimated average each month so your bills can be more consistent.
That would be handy for gasoline, eh?