u/markhachman

Simply looking at the price of in-store pickup, charged by the restaurant itself:

Nation's: Hamburger (1/3 lb): $8.20

Burger King: Whopper (1/4 lb): $7.49

McDonald's: Quarter Pounder (1/4 lb): ~$7.50, but online purchases are via the app

Char's: Hamburger: $10.00 ( a year ago) (https://yelp.to/SeIRmBUFMW)

Bottom of the Fifth: Hamburger (0.43lb): $11.99

Lucca: Lucca Burger (0.5lb): $20.00

Got Plate Lunch (Aloha Burger, 1/4 lb): $13.99

Nine Zero Seven: ???

What's your go to?

Kem

I apologize that I don't have the time at the moment to research this myself.

My understanding is that (most? all?) of Benicia was on the same power grid as the Valero Refinery, which is why the town was never scheduled for brownouts or a power cut during a heat wave or other event.

With the refinery shut down, has that changed?

In 2000 I owned the PlayStation game Gran Turismo 2, and one of the cheapest starter cars was the Impreza 2.5RS. At the time I had just started work at a company that had just gone public, and I ended up making about $40K from the proceeds. (This was not a buy and hold investment.)

So I decided, what the heck, I'd buy the car.

In 26 years I only put on 150K miles on the car (working at home, even living overseas). But that car saw me through the majority of my life.

Over time, though, it began aging -- no mechanical issues at all, but cosmetic issues that eventually wore her out. I don't think I could have reasonably received more than the $2K that the state paid me to take it off the road.

I'm older, and an EV makes a lot more sense. But I'll miss that car, and all the Subie drivers who would wave.

The weird thing was that she hitched and shuddered on the way into the lot, and failed the initial inspection because a battery cable worked loose. Today, when I brought a socket wrench to tighten the connection, it started leaking radiator fluid from a hose. Poor thing was scared, I think. She was a good car, though, and I told her so before I left for the last time.