Good! Love it.
I am very happy with the local Springfield NPP, Oh wait, no no.
But honestly I’m fine with it
Same here, or one of the tailing ponds.
I grew up next to the Santa Susana Lab, and my third arm comes in handy, and I will still take a nuclear plant in my community.
Used to enjoy watching and feeling the testing of the Space Shuttle main engines as a child.
Mom is looking down from heaven with Dad – and when ever you hear thunder, you know they’re back to normal arguing with each other. She passed away last December right before Christmas and we had her funeral right after Christmas.
Sorry I’m chiming in so late – I’ve actually been pretty busy making one of mom’s “dreams come true” because she didn’t have to use her savings for a nursing home. My share was plenty to establish a new company (MAE Wholesale) and to buy out one of the two suppliers I use. I flew to Seattle and stayed for a week, and then the truck arrived a few days early. I’ve been up to my eyeballs in sorting inventory because the unloaders moved like lightening and basically left us a mess. MAE is for Michael, Amanda, Elisabeth – my three kids, but the M is also for Mom (me) and Mutti (my mom).
What a wonderful story. Good luck and God Bless.
Steve
Another Nay on Ev’s
There are EV owners who are a**sholes
As a diesel owner, I can safely say gas drivers are A holes too when they leave their car at the only pump with a green nozzle to spend a half hour inside getting their nachos and red bull.
It’s not unique to EV’s, its just A holes being A holes at a different business model.
I had a diesel years back. Glad I do not have one today. Fewer pumps other than at truck stops and a price premium over gasoline.
No kidding. My dad had a diesel back in the 80s. Pretty cool to have a big land yacht that got 30+mpg and a range of over 800 miles. Back then diesel cost less than gas, so a double savings.
Fast forward to when I was looking to buy a van, looked at the Ram diesel; it got better mileage than the Chevy I ended up with, but even with that bonus, would cost more per mile for fuel (not to mention being $10K more to buy).
But it still seems that most of the gas stations around me have diesel; might be a regional thing.
(related, I’ve never seen a place where all the EV chargers were being used at once; maybe there’s just so many more of them in NJ?)
The MPG difference more than makes up for the difference.
Never had one but a friend of mine, many years ago, had an 84 Merc 300SD Turbo that must have weighed 6000lbs+ and he was getting 30MPG+ avg.
My understanding is diesel engines last a lot longer - thinking cummings. And are easier to work on-ish and thus the preferred fuel type when in the market for heavy duty haulers paired with equally heavy duty transmissions - they are hardier and therefore more reliable.
The reason we bought a VW pickup with diesel engine back in the 1980s.
VW diesel engines in cars were known to go 500,000 to 1,000,000 miles.
40+ mpg and 400 range on a tank.
Diesel was cheaper than unleaded back then … average $0.25 to $0.50 per gallon less (California pricing).
Had our VW truck for 6 months and some idiot rear ended us and the totaled the truck. VW quit making them (or at least importing to US) so we couldn’t replace it.
Cummins. One of my consulting clients many years ago. I spent more time in Columbus Indiana than any one should have to who wasn’t born there. Great architecture though.
Diesels were effectively indestructible. Cummins had a division in Memphis - Deisel Recon which rebuilt diesel engines whenever it was needed. I have no idea if it is still in operation.
I will say this re: electric trucks, if you’re just looking for one as a daily driver and or status symbol (as trucks seem to be these days), go for it. If you’re going to use it in any manner for hauling stuff, you know, why trucks exist, then look real hard at how much their range dips under a load.
The F150 seems to be an exception with only a ~25% loss on range under load. Most are 50-90% loss in range.
I would be moving from a 2011 SUV, no towing, but I do move, STUFF, not heavy but stuff and there are a few days when the SUV seats down, tailgate up is used!
But good points!
We have a 1997 extended cab, 7’ bed F150 that regularly hauls up to 2 full pallets worth of books, sometimes up to 600 miles a round-trip. Being a '97, we looked real hard at what to get next… Suffice it to say, etrucks won’t cut it for us (at least w/ current specs), nor will $50-70k for a newer gas truck, so we are now on our 2nd engine in the '97 
Love everything about how it rides and performs. I wish I could get another easily.
What do you think the trickle down effect of this news will be?