Subj : Re: Trump admin accuses A
To : Aaron Thomas
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Mon May 05 2025 08:34 am
-=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Ron L. <=-
RL> AT> The prices posted on the windshields of the cars are shocking. In 201
RL> AT> I bought a 2008 Jeep Patriot with about 45k miles for $11k. There's n
RL> AT> deal like that around now.
RL>
RL> No, but the main reason is that people don't want to buy a new car
RL> (yet). So they are hanging on to their old ones, which means lower
RL> supply in the used car market, which means higher prices.
AT> That's understandable and likely. Personally I also believe that people
AT> are still scared about the threat of being forced into EVs. It seems
AT> like all that discussion make the prices go up, and Trump can't quell
AT> that fear in 4 years' time.
I'm one of these that is not scared about EV. I would like to try one
out! The ony thing that bothers me is the range, but 99% of my driving
is to work, around the schools, and back home. Maybe 50 miles a day. When
I travel more than 100 miles one way in a day is when it will become an
issue for me.
RL> AT> I've been complaining about unprecented electric bills since last
RL> AT> summer, and the worst ones started in about November, and they still
RL> AT> are out of wack.
RL>
RL> I'm getting concerned about that too. Consumers Power is asking for yet
RL> another rate increase (the first one hasn't been approved yet) and our
RL> Whit-less Tyrant is pushing for more unreliable power sources.
AT> I'd love to quit using electric and start using a gas generator, but I
AT> don't think my family in in agreement on that yet. (Imagine telling the
AT> electric company that the relationship is over!)
LOL :-) Our house is not perfectly North/South, but close enough that a
solar panel on the 'back' would work. I've started looking into that. Would
be nice to be able to knock my electric bill down to just a few dollars a
month, and maybe even 'sell back' some? I was reading about a 'power cell'
(don't remember exactly what it was called) that would basically hold spare
power so even in an outage your house can still function.
... Thesaurus: ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary
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