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How Much Does It Cost to Charge an Electric Car In Colorado?

June 30, 2024 by Finance Gourmet

Real world cost to charge an electric car in Colorado using current Xcel Energy rates. Somewhere along the lines, the entire country got divided into liberals and conservatives and the one hates the other one and thinks they are trying to ruin the country, and vice versa. Of course, once you get off of Twitter or whatever online/social media/internet/news website thing there is and get out into the real world where the sun shines, and people actually buy cars and drive them to work and stuff, things aren’t really that crazy. Out here in the real world, you might wonder if you live in Colorado how much it would actually cost you to charge an electric car. Let’s find out. I Bought an Electric Car and I Charge It at Home I’m not a political nutjob, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Just kidding. I am a regular guy though, and I did buy an electric car. Why? Why not? I like cool new technology and electric cars are cool new technology. Regular cars have basically run the same for over a hundred years now. Dig black goo up out of the ground, and burn …

Tesla Stock Buy or Sell?

January 5, 2021 by Finance Gourmet

Wall Street gave up giving honest buy and sell rankings years ago. Everyone knows “Hold” is code for sell, without making the company you are covering too mad to use your bank for future deals. But, even that wasn’t enough, with most firms adding a slew of not-so-easy to decode terms like overweight, moderate buy, underperform, underweight. All of this is to obfuscate the actual track record of these analysts which is often abysmal. The less accountability on Wall Street, the better. Is Tesla Stock a Good Buy? Traditionally, I don’t do buy/sell on stocks. It’s a slippery area, but when folks show up in my comments and email asking over and over again for the same thing, I at least consider it. Tesla and Bitcoin I’m writing about Tesla stock today, because I wrote about Bitcoin 20,000 last week (or was it the week before? — Holidays are tricky). Bitcoin and Tesla might sound unrelated, but their performance and trajectory as late are very similar. Bitcoin is a revolutionary idea in currency that is so new there is no real way to know how it will react or behave in the long term. Recently, however, all the naysayers have …