@Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I understand what a bargain is, but I don't understand what sort of point you're trying to make with the Leaf/Volt. Especially since being a "bargain" doesn't preclude the item having "value."

@sirmeili: But that's what I find so odd: that it's so common to consider the mining and production of large batteries for hybrids, but not say, the extra metal needed for larger engines in traditional gasoline vehicles. It just seems very pick-and-choose when to pay attention to the carbon costs of mining and…

@Yeah!: What's cool about Hohm is that it is more extensive than that. It'll make comments about the amount of sealant in your home, and the precise amount of savings you'll get from turning down your water heater by a given amount.

@ding-dang: With how many electrical death waves would be propagating from your garage, you could even get the ones watching your sale with binoculars from the armchair in their living rooms.

@Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I'm not sure what you're going for with these references to bargain-buying. Of course you get what you pay for with it (as you do with anything), and you write-off the Leaf as something to get when "bargain shopping," but now have claimed that the Volt IS the better deal.

@sirmeili: But normal gasoline-powered vehicles have disposal costs too, which never seems to be considered. Yes Hybrids and electric cars have batteries to be disposed of, but so do gasoline ones. That 50 pound brick under the hood has to go somewhere.

@Nelson: Even if you live in West Virginia and get all of your electricity from coal, it's still less carbon-heavy. It's more efficient to generate power at those sorts of scales than it is to do so in millions of individual engines.

@jdale: A bit counter-intuitively, it essentially doesn't matter where the electricity was generated (coal, natural gas, or otherwise). It's so much more efficient to burn the fuel at massive scale than in millions of separate engines.

@ding-dang: That would make a good murderin place for old people with pacemakers. You could probably get all of them on your block at once

@sirmeili: It really doesn't matter where your power comes from - the economy of scale offered by large powerplants (even coal) make them a more efficient power source than burning gasoline in a single engine.

@sktaka22381: No, it's not. The root of that perception was a study that came out awhile back claiming a Hummer H1 had a lower carbon footprint than a Prius. The study is thoroughly debunked here:

@Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: This is completely anecdotal, but I've only ever heard of Hyundai quality referred to in the negative. Personally, I would say they are known for being cheap, regardless of their actual quality.

@Yeah!: I use home with a partnered utility, and it identified more than that in potential yearly savings (despite our house being rated a ways above the average in efficiency). Don't be so quick to rule this out.

@neverbeenback: Just recently Astro went to the ad/paid support model, so that's another feather in Estrongs hat if you aren't willing to pay or put up with ads.

@TheSkilletFan: I like my Nexus, but I'm not sure how I feel about people taking their love of gadget far enough to make a video like that.

@Héctor Eduardo Luna: Woah there, it was a completely reasonable response. @bambamzam made a stupid comment. Far be it from someone to point out what the individual did wrong eh?

@dtptampa: Glancing at the Wikipedia page for US cellular providers, it looks like most regional carriers are GSM. Subscriber wise, CDMA has a bit of an edge though.

@rashad123us: I had the exact same problem with mine, but I had to pay $55 to swap it out since I unlocked the bootloader. Lucky duck

@dragon:ONE: Keep in mind that on T-Mobile, buying the phone unsubsidized for the full $530 is cheaper over 2 years than buying it subsidized, since the plan costs less.

@bojangles103: T-Mobile went from 32.8 to 33.8 million customers last year, which is part of the reason why I don't understand the oft rumored merger with Sprint. T-Mobile is profitable, growing, and on different technology than Sprint.