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Yes and with a bicycle it takes even longer...

***evidence may be in the form of an opinion piece from a climate denier website.

Yes, and he built it himself.

I think Gunther IS Clara. An invention. A writer's device.

I've learned quite a bit in this thread that makes me even more likely to go EV.

I haven't looked at the discord in ages. I assume whomever you are speaking about probably watched Jude's video because he goes into Gunther's pretty varied catalog of books. Gunther seemed capable of writing about any topic he set his mind to, which is why I'm very suspicious that he was pulling one over on all of us. Vordahl as Clara! HA! Now that's funny. Barb is indeed being investigated as a possible hoaxer and there are some plausible connections, but that's not for me to divulge. I haven't looked too much into it anyways. My current stance is that it smells like performance art. I think saying he "lied" is an unnecessary pejorative, at least as far as my view of him. It'd be like saying Andy Kauffman was "lying" or that the Coen Brothers were "lying" about Fargo. Artistic license is the way I'd phrase it. That seemed to be the majority opinion in the reviews I've read from the time period. It was sort of a "wink-wink" thing i.e. "we see what you're up to and it's quite clever". As for my legal cases, you can usually tell when someone is full of shit pretty quickly. Just an intuition I guess. But you said, there are some damn good liars out there. Most of my clients don't lie to me because they know I have the evidence. I have had a few who I totally believed UNTIL I got the surveillance footage showing them doing what they said they weren't doing! Lying is a skill I suppose. Also, motivation matters as well. If the person has no motivation to lie and gets a fact or two wrong, well, maybe that can be forgiven. Like say if it's just a random witness to something. Take Robert Gregory in the Cooper case. Is his testimony useless because he says Cooper sat in the window seat and says that a dark headed stew sat with him the majority of the time? No, I think not. On the other hand, we have an evidentiary rule that's called The Fruit of the Poisonous Tree. This usually applies to law enforcement and their investigation. If they screw up one thing, then by default you have to assume that the rest of it is screwed up or susceptible to being screwed up. So it's really a case by case basis of when someone's testimony should be deemed useless. With the Gunther book it's difficult because we don't know anything about Cooper before or after the hijacking, so everything that "Clara" says outside of the actual hijacking is unfalsifiable. Yet she fails on the very few things in the book that we CAN check. She said he had a reservation as opposed to just buying his ticket, she has him seated in row 15, Capt Scott coming back to check the bomb, he asks the pilots their location before jumping, etc. And yes, I know that she wasn't there for the hijacking, but she wasn't there for his life before she met him either, and she appears to have supplied a ton of details about that stuff. So why should that be trusted? I don't know, she just seems like a literary device to me, as Georger said. It's like the way Melville uses Ishmael in Moby Dick or something. But again, just my two cents.

Any more, there has to be some element of challenge or fun in it. Changing my own oil holds zero interest, but I did just make windows for my garage and install them. Wendy P.

Yes, people have told me that my insistence on doing almost everything myself is somewhat unreasonable.

Post #201. Built in 1932.

if YOU were paying attention, depreciation is an order of magnitude from your original post in this forum.... as are electrical installations. It would appear that you are and continue to grasp and whatever 'squirrel!' jumps in front of you today and running with it. For starters, your claims of installation costs of electric are wildly exaggerated, and now you are hanging onto depreciation as the cause of all the EV woes. You claims of EV market slowing down are completely out of context and simply cherry picking to make a point that you cannot seem to define, despite my pointing that out. Take an argument and stick with it. Oh wait, you did earlier and were debunked in most of your claims. installation costs also debunked. what's next? Poor children in Africa and the societal cost of that as part of the EV equation? SQUIRREL!

We need higher capacity wires run from the pole transformer and a new breaker box Connected to the meter in heavy duty conduit. No way I can do that myself.

if your buying a used one have the lines checked and replace if out of trim, especially the brake lines

new homes in the 70's did not come with enough kitchen outlets, nor did they have an outlet above the range in the cupboard for the microwave that you were eventually going to hang above the stove. Now EVERY home comes with than and more kitchen circuits and outlets. And every kitchen renovation also includes all these things if they are not already installed. And that costs more money. And it became code so it is required and it is 'big bad government' forcing their will on us, using BH's logic. The issue of charging capabilities will solve itself in time. It is just not a hurdle worth even discussing given the cost savings in fuel that EVs have over gas. Not sure why we are debating this issue with the troll

Well, no. Point being that I can get home, plug in, and be at 100% (or 80%, or wherever you set it) in the morning with no trips to a gas station. A level 1 charger comes free with the car, and will charge at 5 MPH. So if you drive less than 60 miles a day on average you don't need anything else. (The average American drives 40 miles a day.) A level 2 charger (16A) costs $99 from Amazon and can plug into a dryer outlet. That's 14 miles per hour, or about 160 miles a night. Need a splitter for your electric dryer and car? That's another $80. Need an automatic switch so you never have to risk accidentally charging the car at the same time you are charging? That's $240. A 32 amp charger costs $149 and gets that rate up to 28 miles per hour, or 320 miles a night. Once you get to 40 amp chargers now you need specific outlets. The parts for a 50 amp outlet are $50 from Home Depot, and the charger itself is $250. As you mention, if you get a random electrician to install it, it could cost $2000 because he's not going to be into saving you money. Perhaps. There was a program here in San Diego where if you bought one of several cars the city would install a charger for you at no cost. Or just require a 50 amp outlet in the garage for new homes. They already install 40 amp dryer outlets as a matter of course. If installed at the time of construction, additional costs are almost nil.

And have a great holiday season.