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Post by swash on Apr 14, 2022 14:44:36 GMT -5
bulkey I would think you'd be looking at California trucks for sure. Texas and Louisana, only if you want to be ostracized. The mining, manufacturing and recycling ...oh, never mind. Then there is the tiny amount of recharging stations and the huge number of quarters you have to carry around. I anticipate our next cars will be electric, and we don't need to be green to know that an electric motor has many fewer parts to wear out. Hard to use most available statistics, because there isn't enough history on electric cars yet. But Toyota dealers have noticed that their hybrid cars are needing much more service on the engine than the motors. I've converted all of my gas yard gear to electric, and so far am glad I did.
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Apr 14, 2022 15:49:05 GMT -5
bulkey I would think you'd be looking at California trucks for sure. Texas and Louisana, only if you want to be ostracized. The mining, manufacturing and recycling ...oh, never mind. Then there is the tiny amount of recharging stations and the huge number of quarters you have to carry around. I anticipate our next cars will be electric, and we don't need to be green to know that an electric motor has many fewer parts to wear out. Hard to use most available statistics, because there isn't enough history on electric cars yet. But Toyota dealers have noticed that their hybrid cars are needing much more service on the engine than the motors. I've converted all of my gas yard gear to electric, and so far am glad I did. Curious, does Toyota tell customers the cost of a replacement battery pack? I'm sure they are delighted with the policies that have caused the price of gas to soar. On the hybrid toyotas I took a daughter's toyota for service maybe 3 years ago (yes, what we do for our kids) and ended up chatting with the service manager about hybrid servicing and he said the same thing, but said his informal poll was suggesting to him, ironically, than his customers worked their engines too hard (75 and 80 mph speed limits here). I'm just hoping I don't outlive gasoline engines.
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Post by swash on Apr 14, 2022 16:13:30 GMT -5
I anticipate our next cars will be electric, and we don't need to be green to know that an electric motor has many fewer parts to wear out. Hard to use most available statistics, because there isn't enough history on electric cars yet. But Toyota dealers have noticed that their hybrid cars are needing much more service on the engine than the motors. I've converted all of my gas yard gear to electric, and so far am glad I did. Curious, does Toyota tell customers the cost of a replacement battery pack? I'm sure they are delighted with the policies that have caused the price of gas to soar. On the hybrid toyotas I took a daughter's toyota for service maybe 3 years ago (yes, what we do for our kids) and ended up chatting with the service manager about hybrid servicing and he said the same thing, but said his informal poll was suggesting to him, ironically, than his customers worked their engines too hard (75 and 80 mph speed limits here). I'm just hoping I don't outlive gasoline engines. Battery recycling is dramatically better. Batteries are lasting longer and longer. Battery costs are falling, too ... unfortunately most do come from China ... More, and better charging stations are going up every year. These trends will all continue. I am not ready today, but I expect that day to arrive soon.
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Apr 14, 2022 16:42:47 GMT -5
Curious, does Toyota tell customers the cost of a replacement battery pack? I'm sure they are delighted with the policies that have caused the price of gas to soar. On the hybrid toyotas I took a daughter's toyota for service maybe 3 years ago (yes, what we do for our kids) and ended up chatting with the service manager about hybrid servicing and he said the same thing, but said his informal poll was suggesting to him, ironically, than his customers worked their engines too hard (75 and 80 mph speed limits here). I'm just hoping I don't outlive gasoline engines. Battery recycling is dramatically better. Batteries are lasting longer and longer. Battery costs are falling, too ... unfortunately most do come from China ... More, and better charging stations are going up every year. These trends will all continue. I am not ready today, but I expect that day to arrive soon. One thing China and Japan get together on, huh!
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Apr 14, 2022 17:06:07 GMT -5
Sorry, I have spring fever, but I have a question that has been rooting around in my brain since the Sweet 16 and I wonder if it has popped up in anyone else's. Preface: I wouldn't trade Paige for anyone. So she scored 27 and when she turned it on in overtime it was magnificent. As the crew said, she may not be fully healed, but she's fully clutch. But if she warmed up the engine in regulation and particularly the last 3 minutes overtime might have been limited to someone else's game.
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Post by bulkey on Apr 14, 2022 17:23:56 GMT -5
Curious, does Toyota tell customers the cost of a replacement battery pack? I'm sure they are delighted with the policies that have caused the price of gas to soar. On the hybrid toyotas I took a daughter's toyota for service maybe 3 years ago (yes, what we do for our kids) and ended up chatting with the service manager about hybrid servicing and he said the same thing, but said his informal poll was suggesting to him, ironically, than his customers worked their engines too hard (75 and 80 mph speed limits here). I'm just hoping I don't outlive gasoline engines. Battery recycling is dramatically better. Batteries are lasting longer and longer. Battery costs are falling, too ... unfortunately most do come from China ... More, and better charging stations are going up every year. These trends will all continue. I am not ready today, but I expect that day to arrive soon. I convinced my brother to buy a Tesla (which he loves and which I've driven: so very cool) so that I could buy his hybrid Honda from him :-). A great deal that lasted less than 2 months because my car was totalled in an accident (other person's fault, but, more importantly, neither of us hurt). So, desperate for a car while facing the supply chain problem, I leased (first time I've leased) a gas engine car. But 3 years from now, no question I'll buy electric. Separate from environmental concerns, they are indeed amazing to drive. I see just today that a Mercedes Benz prototype drove from Germany to southern France--nearly 700 miles--with 15% charge left.
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Post by knightsbridgeaz on Apr 15, 2022 0:32:01 GMT -5
Curious, does Toyota tell customers the cost of a replacement battery pack? I'm sure they are delighted with the policies that have caused the price of gas to soar. On the hybrid toyotas I took a daughter's toyota for service maybe 3 years ago (yes, what we do for our kids) and ended up chatting with the service manager about hybrid servicing and he said the same thing, but said his informal poll was suggesting to him, ironically, than his customers worked their engines too hard (75 and 80 mph speed limits here). I'm just hoping I don't outlive gasoline engines. Battery recycling is dramatically better. Batteries are lasting longer and longer. Battery costs are falling, too ... unfortunately most do come from China ... More, and better charging stations are going up every year. These trends will all continue. I am not ready today, but I expect that day to arrive soon. Exactly. I have heard all good things from the few electric (and even hybrid) folks that I have spoken to. But I'm also hanging with a gas car for now. I do think things are trending that way and I think that when the day arrives it will be fine. But for now . . . Incidentally, I did the same thing with my new water heater, remaining with gas. The reason was that I do ultimately want to switch to electric for hot water (and heat), but it just wasn't really affordable. By the next time I need a new water heater, I suspect they won't be selling gas. Same ultimately with solar and gray water use (which is a big thing in Arizona), but I'm just not there yet, partly because of start-up costs.
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Post by bulkey on Apr 15, 2022 8:22:37 GMT -5
Battery recycling is dramatically better. Batteries are lasting longer and longer. Battery costs are falling, too ... unfortunately most do come from China ... More, and better charging stations are going up every year. These trends will all continue. I am not ready today, but I expect that day to arrive soon. Exactly. I have heard all good things from the few electric (and even hybrid) folks that I have spoken to. But I'm also hanging with a gas car for now. I do think things are trending that way and I think that when the day arrives it will be fine. But for now . . . Incidentally, I did the same thing with my new water heater, remaining with gas. The reason was that I do ultimately want to switch to electric for hot water (and heat), but it just wasn't really affordable. By the next time I need a new water heater, I suspect they won't be selling gas. Same ultimately with solar and gray water use (which is a big thing in Arizona), but I'm just not there yet, partly because of start-up costs. I was forced to spend the money on one of those new electric, on-demand water heaters (building codes had changed), and, wow, yes, initial cost is more, but when our house is full of our (adult) kids and the showers seem to be running constantly, all is good. No fights; no time-outs ( ).
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Apr 15, 2022 11:37:11 GMT -5
Damn 10:30 and 21 degrees and a fresh inch of snow. The Tulips don't stand a chance.
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Post by bulkey on Apr 15, 2022 12:19:59 GMT -5
Damn 10:30 and 21 degrees and a fresh inch of snow. The Tulips don't stand a chance. Sorry to laugh, but that's the vagaries of spring bulbs. Bet they do okay, though.
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Post by semper on Apr 15, 2022 18:02:02 GMT -5
Our tulips NEVER bloom...just a lot a leaves.
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Post by bulkey on Apr 15, 2022 18:36:25 GMT -5
Our tulips NEVER bloom...just a lot a leaves. have squirrels or deer been eating them?
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Post by UConnChapette on Apr 15, 2022 18:54:51 GMT -5
Squirrels always eat my tulips. I can’t get to them fast enough. Another reason I hate the little basturds.
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Post by swash on Apr 15, 2022 18:56:11 GMT -5
Our tulips NEVER bloom...just a lot a leaves. tulips... always get eaten by deer or rabbits before they bloom
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Post by semper on Apr 15, 2022 19:01:11 GMT -5
No, they just do not bloom. Apparently it's pretty typical I have read.
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Post by bulkey on Apr 15, 2022 19:29:42 GMT -5
planting tulip bulbs with paprika will help with squirrels, and there are now all kinds of solared power flashing lights that scare away deer.
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Apr 20, 2022 11:13:05 GMT -5
A warning to all or an excuse. Various aches and pains are keeping me from my favorite treadmill at my local gym. This is the third week and I swore I'd be flogging the treadmill on Monday, but no dice. I'm doing some puny stuff here at the house, but I'm losing ground every day and I don't like it. Going to do my best not to be a total crab.
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Post by semper on Apr 20, 2022 14:36:42 GMT -5
Just go out for a walk for an hour or so. Beats breathing the air of panting infected moose.
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Apr 25, 2022 13:03:50 GMT -5
65 degrees today. Hi of 37 tomorrow. No wonder spring was not mentioned in the Montana brochures.
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Post by pinotbear on Apr 25, 2022 14:27:07 GMT -5
65 degrees today. Hi of 37 tomorrow. No wonder spring was not mentioned in the Montana brochures. My daughter and her husband both work in Yellowstone (he's on his fourth summer assignment as a back-country ranger). He managed to report at 7 am this morning in West Yellowstone, after arriving after 11 pm last night. They were delayed for almost 30 hours, as the blizzard that just went through completely closed Interstate 90. I don't think folks back east in, say NY or Mass, could conceive of I-90 being shut down for 30 hours.
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Post by UConnChapette on Apr 25, 2022 15:24:33 GMT -5
65 degrees today. Hi of 37 tomorrow. No wonder spring was not mentioned in the Montana brochures. My daughter and her husband both work in Yellowstone (he's on his fourth summer assignment as a back-country ranger). He managed to report at 7 am this morning in West Yellowstone, after arriving after 11 pm last night. They were delayed for almost 30 hours, as the blizzard that just went through completely closed Interstate 90. I don't think folks back east in, say NY or Mass, could conceive of I-90 being shut down for 30 hours. I can remember my days back in South Dakota and Nebraska. While I-80 and I-90 in the metro areas of Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island, Kearney and North Platt in NE (I-80) and Sioux Falls and Rapid City (I-90) in South Dakota are generally open, there are many miles of sparsely populated land in between. The interstate has gates on them and they close the on ramps during blizzards and heavy snow storms. And if you are unwise enough to be on the highway after the on ramps have been closed and you run into car trouble or slide off the road, expect to be there for a long time. Have plenty of blankets and food supply on hand. You will be stranded for a long bit. Don't go around them - $1,000 fine Get stranded? You pay for the rescue. I could definitely understand the grocery store runs for break, milk and basics (including toilet paper and water) when there were winter storm warnings in rural Nebraska and South Dakota. In some areas, it could literally be a week or more before the roads were passable to get to the store. I simply can't understand the same madness here in Connecticut. In almost all areas, it is unlikely the roads will be closed for more than a day or two at the most. Digging your car out or having power is another story, but opening the roads is really not much of a concern. Attachments:4d192d87e8f3e.webp (44.59 KB)
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Post by meyers7 on Apr 26, 2022 14:52:01 GMT -5
65 degrees today. Hi of 37 tomorrow. No wonder spring was not mentioned in the Montana brochures. My daughter and her husband both work in Yellowstone (he's on his fourth summer assignment as a back-country ranger). He managed to report at 7 am this morning in West Yellowstone, after arriving after 11 pm last night. They were delayed for almost 30 hours, as the blizzard that just went through completely closed Interstate 90. I don't think folks back east in, say NY or Mass, could conceive of I-90 being shut down for 30 hours.Only in the summer when trying to get back from the Cape on a Sunday evening.
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Post by bulkey on Apr 26, 2022 14:59:37 GMT -5
My daughter and her husband both work in Yellowstone (he's on his fourth summer assignment as a back-country ranger). He managed to report at 7 am this morning in West Yellowstone, after arriving after 11 pm last night. They were delayed for almost 30 hours, as the blizzard that just went through completely closed Interstate 90. I don't think folks back east in, say NY or Mass, could conceive of I-90 being shut down for 30 hours.Only in the summer when trying to get back from the Cape on a Sunday evening. OMG. The Bourne Bridge!!!
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Post by pinotbear on Apr 26, 2022 17:13:04 GMT -5
Only in the summer when trying to get back from the Cape on a Sunday evening. OMG. The Bourne Bridge!!!
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Post by knightsbridgeaz on Apr 26, 2022 20:18:38 GMT -5
Only in the summer when trying to get back from the Cape on a Sunday evening. OMG. The Bourne Bridge!!! Even I ran into a bottleneck there. Also on a bridge to the outer banks, I forget exactly where. We had no option, as my wife had a 2 week class in Richmond and was "off" Friday afternoon through Sunday, so it was Friday night. A lot of folks heading to hotels for one night before their rentals kicked in on Saturday. The difference between the busy Friday night hotel and slow Saturday was really odd.
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