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I am happy to say that I've had both injections. As soon as it was announced that it would open up, I jumped on 2 retail pharmacy websites and, lo and behold, found an appointment just 2 days away at a location about 1:15 from me. I was ecstatic. I was given Pfizer. Surprisingly, those same retail pharmacies around me were giving Moderna, but this store was giving Pfizer. I was happy about getting Pfizer. Some friends have had some transient side effects from the Moderna. From what I've heard, Pfizer is the one mostly dispensed at hospitals while Moderna is more likely to be dispensed at retail pharmacies. The only side effect both times was a dull headache for about a day or so after the injections. Ibuprofen took care of that. It's very sad to me that this has become politicized. A friend of mine is trained as a nurse and she did not want it. This didn't surprise me because the mindset in her household is very Christian (not the more denominational kinds) and very Republican. The response to the vaccine seems to be "packaged" with predictable beliefs and attitudes that lend themselves to stereotyping, and the pollsters' numbers prove that. I'll STOP right there with the politics. With the amount of effort thrown at this, and with pharmaceutical horsepower so advanced compared to decades ago, I was waiting for this. I knew there are risks involved. And, if they detect some issues, they'll probably find new pills to fix the old problems and correct the vaccine formulation. If we need boosters, I'm ok with that, too. I see this as a money printing press for Big Pharma, but it is what it is. I can deal with having it rolled in with the flu shot ... or as two separate annual episodes. I will do what it takes to TRAVEL. That said: R-O-A-D T-R-I-P !!!

I like Ford; the company, the history, the founder, and their trucks. Some of their cars, too. I've not seen a Flex up close/inside to examine, but I have a feeling I'd really like it. Was listening to a dark blue/black rims current 'stang GT going up the highway next to me today and the exhaust music was sublime. My comment on stocks was a counter to smk's that "investors love electric car stocks" when plainly they love Tesla/Musk. Whether a given company succeeds long term or not is another discussion. I like entrepreneurs, in fact I am often jealous of industrial entrepreneurs and how world-altering they can become.

OK, lets clear some things up. First off there was no interstate as has been pointed out by others here, so ICE auto's was a novelty of the early 1900's for local driving, much the way EVs have started out as Compliance / Commuter auto's. Second, gas stations be it 15,000 or 22,000 were NOT the gas stations of today. You take Case in point 1917 Today 2021 Or the common Costco 32 pump mega gas stations The point being is for 100 years, very common for people to have a gas can to go get gas when they run out and it still happens today as it did in the early 1900's. The Novel rich person toy ICE auto would break down or run out of gas and the next thing was a person on a horse going to the local pump to get some fuel or get it towed in to be repaired. No matter how you look at it, ICE had a hard start to common use and every day sight. You state 60,500 gas stations and yet everywhere I look we peaked in 2016 at 164,200 and as of the end of 2020 the figure I keep finding is 111,000 stations. The difference is a couple pumps in the early 1900's compared to 18 to 32 plus pumps per station today. So yes, I will stick with the fact that the much smaller stations of the early 1900's were not found on every corner everywhere like they are today meaning that some people just might have had to borrow or ride a horse to get fuel if stuck on a road some place in the early days. Difference is that you have AAA today that can come to you and give you a charge so your EV can get to a local charging station or at least to a 110 outlet to trickle charge. EV's have had the same hard start and are becoming more common every day. Benefit of EV's is that if one so CHOOSES, they can install a 220V home charger to ensure just like their cell phone that their auto starts every day off with a full charge. Becoming more and more common. We also see more and more commercial chargers for a fee showing up. Yes ICE will be here till 2200 easily, but that does not mean we cannot also move to better, cleaner and less maintenance needed auto's. Expensive at first, so true just like the common person could not afford the early auto's and Ford helped lower that cost to a mass market purchase for many people. I BELIEVE EV's will get there too. YOUR RIGHT, NO ONE wants to do things the way they were 120 years ago, YET change in habits are slow for some, fast for others and EVs are not your 1900's ICE or EV of that era. Today a little common sense and if you want an EV, you can have one new or used with many more choices coming and YOU CAN CHOOSE to be CHEAP or PAY to have slow or fast charging. Everyone embraces change differently, just look how some of us love our advanced smartphones and others still cling to the past of a flip phone. Nothing wrong and I am not forcing the flip phone users of which my parents are part of that group to change, but lets stop the attacks against new technology and the humans who do want to embrace the change of the auto. If we care about society, our awesome multi-cultural world, then we all should want to do our part to help reduce green house gas, improve quality of life and work to better co-exist with this planet. While you point out the everyone depends on auto's we also have a much more advanced public transit system than we had 120 years ago. There is always ways to get around if the EV owner was irresponsible in plugging in their auto last night to help charge it up. We all have choices and EVs require a change in habits that I understand and accept some are not willing to do. So be it and as we all know, ICE is still here for those that want them even as EVs become more common.

The world is flat.

I found this line very amusing while reading up on Fiskers current doings. It's real easy to go after EV "pipe dreamers" when they fail once or twice and it's even easier when you want to ignore some simple facts of the past. Like this line: It took Henry Ford three tries to start his own successful car company. Henrik Fisker is on his second try with his new company, Fisker Inc. How'd that work out for him btw? I forget. I do know that even after a century in business, Ford still has it fair share of issues yet no one is calling for them to be shut down (except for rabid GM fans maybe lol). I'm just glad my Flex has been relatively trouble free ?. Point being, there will be winners and there will be losers but how about let that play out a bit before obeying that five minute attention span, that most people in this country seem to have.

Because much like every other industry out there, not all of them can be "winners" but maybe I'm just guilty of using common sense here instead of using sensationalism and exceptionalism to make a point.

Rush - The SPIRIT of RADIO (the ONLY Rush that counts and DESERVES to be on the radio) (and I dont even like Rush, the band, all that much...)

I’ll believe it when I see it

A century in use overall yet some folks still can't build a manual transmission worth a damn. It also adds to why I think the Gladiator is one the most overhyped vehicles released in the last 30 years (at least) and I'd have a hard time finding one from the past that was so overpriced, so utterly useless as a pick up (apparently it can not safely tow anything), and so typical of the company that owns it now. How do you F up a six speed manual in a JEEP? https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a34761896/2020-jeep-gladiator-mojave-reliability-maintenance/

Maybe the gas man home-delivered gasoline in glass bottles, like the milkman did.

I kinda regret posting those pot shot pics poking fun at GMC trucks and pick-up trucks. I apologize! Sorry.

The Chevy has really won me over. I remember hatin' it when it came out. I likes the GMC, and your truck, the colour and the black trim, I must say, is sweeeeeet. Cheers on your new ride, Balthy!

Mossimo is the dude walking behind Lori. It's a manipulation of his name, Massimo, which is Max or Maximillian. USC has really come up. They've always had good medical, dental, and pharmacy schools. They are the biggest archi school in L.A. proper. The law school might be slightly behind UCLA's, and ditto for the MBA program. However, if you plan to make your living in SoCal, a USC sheepskin gets the foot in the door, so the rankings become sort of moot. All of their academic departments are good. UCLA pulls slightly ahead of it because it probably conducts more/better research. In the past, having a 3.5 in high school (when the upper limit was 4.0), an 85th percentile SAT, and a pulse would get most people in. They might have even relaxed that a little bit if coming in from a high school that has prestige, that they like, or that they have a relationship of sorts with ... or, to be realistic about it, for affirmative action purposes. It's a good thing that they opened the new train line that connects the USC campus to either DTLA or the beach at Santa Monica. Their alumni network is definitely the best in Southern California. Mossimo himself went there but didn't finish. I think Mossimo's dad was a USC grad. I didn't give a rat's ass about these people and then, when this scandal broke, learning about them was "slightly" interesting.

You didn’t read the second link I provided, where it talks about what folks used to have to do in order to get gas. Also, one really important thing to consider in that second part of your math. Gas stations of today have up to five times as many pumps per station as gas stations in the 1920s which, again, skews your math a bit. And you didn’t want a complete historical overview yet it is 100% relevant to what was being discussed. One important thing to note about that survey is what it said in the article. “…that surveyed Californians who purchased an electric vehicle between 2012 and 2018.” Thats three years ago. Now I’m not saying everything is better now but again, three years ago. One last thing. The writer of said article (about the survey) needs to review his stuff before posting. Kind of dings the credibility a bit. And I quote: ”Even with the faster charging, a Chevy Volt he tested still needed nearly six hours to top its range back up to 300 miles from nearly empty” Read that again if you don’t see the issue there. And some people can’t even handle putting gas in their damn car. Years ago, when I was driving a tow truck, I picked up two Camrys in which the drivers managed to put full tanks of DIESEL in them, on the same day!

Sure... And VW got caught with a diesel scandal. Germany and the US closed that shyte down. VW's credibility as a green company took a hit, to show the public that they really are a green company, was forced to go all out EV, the US government FORCED VW to also invest in a charging system... OK...GM is said to be going all out EV. 3 years ago. Where is GM and VW to build EV charging systems a la Tesla for THEIR EV cars? Since Honda is going to use GM EV tech, why isnt VW, GM AND Honda partnering up to have an EV charging coalition? ESPECIALLY to rival Tesla since they all want to rival Tesla. Mercedes is said to want to be a Tesla Killer... (Porsche and Audi too? Part of VW...to which VW, Hinda and GM could have split the investment costs...) Where is M-B's charging network? All these smart American business men, like Donald J. Trump, where are their business chops? Especially for the business man turned politician that wanted to make America great again. Bring back American jobs, yada yada yada. Oh yeah...he had coal up his ass... Unfortunately, there is a great political divide in the US that clutters the mind. EVERYTHING in the US lately is just political fodder and is weaponized to undermine the OTHER party... Regarding proprietary Tesla networks and all that, well... When Tesla sells you a car, Tesla also GIVES you the other standard plugs to charge your Tesla on the other networks. Looks like Tesla is the smart one...

My sister and I got our 2nd shots of Pfizer on Monday, quick and easy. I really haven't had any side effects, a bit of fatigue but that is probably due to being awoken at 4:30-5 am 3 days in a row by the dogs. She had some all-over-soreness and out-of-it feeling, but slept it off.

Wife & I got our first Moderna shot today. Rode an hour 1-way to get it. My one son who works in a NY hospital got both his shots maybe 2 months ago. Other son doesn't have an app't yet, his GF got the J&J shot Monday.

Both of my kids got their first shot over the weekend of Moderna. Family should be 100% vaccinated in 4 weeks.

Yeah, that seems to be the one company with issues. They also have issues in Europe as well. My wife got her J&J today, and is resting comfortably at the moment. Just a bit tired....and it was nice that the school district she works for gave her two days off.....

We are apparently giving the J and J vaccine to students here on Campus....

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If "investors love electric vehicle stocks", why is Fiskar at $13 and Lordstown at $9?

Re: Ford quality--an anecdote, I know, but I did hear one of the podcasters I follow leased a Mach-e and the screen went blank and had to be replaced literally before they got off the dealer lot...