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    True cost to run EV like paying $17.33 per gallon if not for $22 billion in government subsidies.

    Substitute goods effect perhaps although I don't know that UAW strike has much depleted inventories.
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    Generac generator?

    I gather mufflers can be had (or fashioned) and sound-deadening secondary enclosures procured if one desires. The neighbor's unit isn't intolerable inside my own house, although I'm not directly adjacent in a neighborhood with ~20' between homes. It is a touch more conspicuous that it would be...
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    Generac generator?

    Depends on however one weighs the frequency/duration/criticality of power outages as well as the peace of mind factor. A close neighbor has an automatic standby generator (make/model unknown, however it's for sure using NG) that's put in all of about 4 hours' actual service in the 2 years since...
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    True cost to run EV like paying $17.33 per gallon if not for $22 billion in government subsidies.

    I feel similar. 2021 during the vehicle availability crisis I was giving some though to selling my daily driver, funneling some of the proceeds into resolving my other vehicle's minor issues, and pocketing the rest. But invariably the company started making rumblings about a new office...
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    Master thread for disasters and generators.

    I make a habit to run mine under load ~monthly. Whether this is relevant to the entirety of anti-atrophy purposes (keeping lubrication nominally distributed, carb free of residue, etc) is up for debate; I mostly want to know that it's capable of doing its job.
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    I lived my entire life without debt

    Suspect that the authority flows from powered enumerated in foundational documents to legislation creating broad laws and agencies to specific regulation promulgated by agencies - much of which has been tested in the courts over the decades. As for debates over the appropriateness, it wasn't...
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    I lived my entire life without debt

    Political wrangling aside, the cost of living in a given state, region, zipcode is something an economics major intern can do accounting for the basics of median rent, transportation, food, utilities, insurance, childcare, etc. At which point the politicians can then decide what percentage of...
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    I lived my entire life without debt

    I mean. Texas has been dealing with the "flood" of immigration for many many decades now. Even when it's not in the news. It's just a fact of life.
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    True cost to run EV like paying $17.33 per gallon if not for $22 billion in government subsidies.

    I would not shed a tear if 2-stroke engines were phased out for lawn maintenance operations in the city. Quite the opposite in fact.
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    Is anyone else interested in incandescent because of the lack of blue spectrum that is even in warm LEDs?

    Could make those a requirement for Energy Star, DLC, etc without going to the trouble of a mandate.
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    Is anyone else interested in incandescent because of the lack of blue spectrum that is even in warm LEDs?

    Should is a heck of a presumption. Light sources should also score 100% on all quality metrics, operate at 300 lumens per watt efficiency, be adaptable to any desired CCT or color, last nearly forever, require no heatsinking, and be cheap as chips. In reality, the vast majority of the populace...
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    Is anyone else interested in incandescent because of the lack of blue spectrum that is even in warm LEDs?

    Not everything needs high CRI, and high CRI is no guarantee of good color rendition. I've used a ~dozen models of LED bulbs of varying grades from varying manufacturers. They A) handily outlast incandescent, and B) outlast CFLs - even the good CFLs of ~20 years ago. I think I've had all of...
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    Too much private information online!

    Reminded of >20 years ago when 2-, 3-, and even 4-part forms were common - the sort of thing that were either filled out using a ball point pen (press hard) or a dot-matrix printer. Invariably the worst copy went to the folks that needed the most detail - production and/or the warehouse to pull...
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    Do you know why postage cost are so high for us ?

    Possibly... The Universal Postal Union is the reason that China can send mail (almost) anywhere in the (developed economy) world for cheap: It's been amended and re-negotiated a few times since. E-commerce has altered the balance of flows and resulted in an effective subsidy to developing...
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    True cost to run EV like paying $17.33 per gallon if not for $22 billion in government subsidies.

    Been a couple dozen of those now. The result comes as no surprise - towing slaughters efficiency for ICE and EV alike. It's obviously immensely more all-around convenient to refuel than recharge. But that's not the market for electric trucks; they're primarily meant to slot into the commuter...
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