So... with the range thing I’d say it becomes a much bigger issue when you have a very short range to begin with. If you are only getting 70% of 300 miles it’s a much smaller impact than getting 70% of 100 miles. The ubiquity of gas stations helps, but having a long range to pull from helps to alleviate the range…

43 cents per kW/h?!? Damn.

The trucks get the big offroad tires that are winter rated and wear them year round. It’s worked well for them for years. The cars, one gets snows on different rims for ease of swapping, the other gets all seasons.

Excellent write-up.

Lol Franklin

That’s how I bought. Get an email price from one dealer and tell the next dealer to beat it, bring that price back to the first dealer, rinse & repeat.

The worst part is they could have solved the whole problem by doubling the size of the flash memory and implementing wear leveling to reduce the write cycles by half and double the lifespan. It would have cost them almost nothing to implement per unit.

Oil is cheaper per BTU than natural gas (if you can even get it around here), it’s way cheaper than pellets and the only way you’re getting wood cheaper is if you cut and split it yourself.

I do think using oil in ways it can be recycled makes more sense than burning it.

There has been some pretty decent progress towards the new tokamak designs but I totally agree superconductors would solve a huge problem. Energy storage and distribution would be great areas for advancement as it would bring solar up to a more useful level. I do believe that hydrogen can be used for short term energy…

Hugely less energy density and much more expensive.  The best kind of LNG ship is the kind moving LNG already.

Every few years that idea gets floated...

The old Top Gear board was a much better assessment of a vehicle than a ‘Ring record will ever be.

Exactly this. It’s like with computers when the manufacturer announces their new $2000 chip sets records (in this one benchmark we specifically tuned it for that has zero real world usage). Who cares? Show me what your midrange chip in that government issue Dell is going to do running Excel, Outlook, and PornHub at…

In the Northeast #2 fuel oil is the most popular (and cheapest and safest) option for heating.

The small town I went to high school in had one restaurant on the main street that used to be a funeral home. They kept the ornate woodwork from the parlor and turned that area into the dining room.  Looked great until you knew what it used to be.

What do we have on this thing, a Cuisinart?

My heart says NP but I had to vote the old adage of not buying someone else’s unfinished project, no matter how tempting.

All this buzz about electric, but oil companies aren’t just going to disappear. You still need oil for lubrication, plastics production, bunkerage and fuel for ships and furnaces.

Imagine how fast he would have been driving otherwise.