G. David Felt

Fudd

That makes no freakin sense. I would for sure shop around. I pay only a couple hundred dollars for the insurance on my 1994 GMC Suburban SLE that has been parked all year and I honestly doubt it will get driven this year due to the pandemic. Just not going anywhere. I do have to laugh at the pandemic refund checks the insurance companies are sending out to their policy holders. Ameriprise sent me an $88.00 check for the year to help me out. Wow. ?

Real Estate

I so can relate as what the wife wants and what is available are two different things. Best of luck finding that warm mocha brown interior in the auto he wants.

Totally expect it to as we are scheduled to get 7 feet of snow in the mountains by Saturday. https://snowbrains.com/mount-baker-7-feet-fresh-snow/ Early Ski season I hope! Theaters here are all closed and not expected to open till after the new year. I am hoping they will do premium streaming as a James Bond Fan, I am excited to see Daniel Craig's final movie. I do wonder about Tom Hardy as his replacement. Seems we keep getting shorter and shorter James Bond's. Also, while the fan in me loves all the songs, I do think that some of the older songs are way over rated compared to some of the newer songs. Maybe a boomer rated them.

Considering that Charging stations and outlets are far cheaper to install than gas stations and pumps, I think with committed dollars, we will see the infrastructure expand greatly in the near future. Interesting read on California's electrical grid. https://poweringcalifornia.com/californias-electricity-grid-explained/ Another Interesting read: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-28/what-the-world-gets-if-u-s-electricity-becomes-100-green

High Wind, Heavy rain, 2 inches in the last 24hrs and more to come through the weekend. Pacific storms are lined up much like the storms in the Atlantic. Gonna be a crazy week and weekend.

Yes EV's are very small compared to ICE auto's, but I think those that fear change are overblowing the battery thing in comparison to ICE. Even this report says it is very rare in comparison to ICE fuel fires. A Review of Battery Fires in Electric Vehicles https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10694-019-00944-3 Interesting read on ice versus ev and the history. https://www.automobilemag.com/news/electric-vs-gasoline-cars-history-repeats/

@ykX @ccap41 California has committed almost $500 million to expand their EV public charging infrastructure. https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2020/08/27/california-approves-largest-ever-utility-program-to-expand-ev-charging/ https://afdc.energy.gov/stations/#/analyze?country=US&fuel=ELEC&ev_levels=all&access=public&access=private&region=US-CA

Glad you like it, I honestly just cannot get into the Roman Soldier face mask front end styling. I do like the color. @ocnblu I would ask that they replace the door since they drilled it without talking to you first and getting your approval. What did you decide?

Some great CPO Luxury CUV's out there right now. Excited to see what ya get.

You can also find the latest break down of auto fires which show ICE are still and will be still far more burnable than electric. https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/News-and-Research/Fire-statistics-and-reports/US-Fire-Problem/osvehiclefires.pdf To Quote the Report: Key findings An estimated 212,500 vehicle fires caused 560 civilian deathsi 1,500 civilian injuries; and $1.9 billion in direct property damage in the US during 2018. In 2018, only fires in one- and two-family homes claimed more lives than vehicle fires. Vehicle fires caused 4.5 times the number of deaths as nonresidential structure fires and 1.6 times the number of apartment fire deaths. Most of this report focuses on highway vehicle fires. ii The vast majority of vehicle fires and vehicle fire casualties involve highway vehicles (vehicles intended for use on roadways). The 2018 estimate of highway vehicle fires was 60 percent lower than in 1980, and the rates of fires per billion miles driven and fire deaths per 100 billion miles driven were 81 percent and 65 percent lower, respectively. Four of every five people killed or injured in highway vehicle fires in 2013–2017 were male. Almost half (44 percent) of the vehicle fire fatalities were between 15 and 34. Only 10 percent were at least 65 years of age. Highway vehicle fires were most common between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. The leading causes of vehicle fires were mechanical failures or malfunctions and electrical failures or malfunctions. Older vehicles accounted for three-quarters of the highway vehicle fires caused by mechanical or electrical failures or malfunctions. Maintenance is important throughout the vehicle’s years of use. Collisions were the leading cause of vehicle fires that resulted in death. Large trucks have a higher rate of deaths per 1,000 fires than highway vehicle fires overall. Tires play a larger role in large truck and bus fires than in car fires.

Battery fires are still far less than gas fires on auto's along with oil/grease fires on auto's. https://www.statista.com/statistics/377006/nmber-of-us-highway-vehicle-fires/

She wants a Crew Cab Pickup truck which I do owe her since I lost a bet to her about 007 Movie Trivia. As such, Hummer by GMC, Rivian, Ford F-150 or any other crewcab EV Pickup if Nikola or others actually deliver will become her next ride. But thank you for calling her Mrs. Statue, after all for Korean and being 5'8" tall she is very tall for a woman of Korean Heritage as well as taller than many American Men and Woman.

Boy George

No different than how people now are buying Hybrids over Gas and paying the premium for the Hybrid. People will look and if it has what they want they will buy.

The drilling is what just bogles me as even on YouTube, there are so many ways to take out a door dent without drilling. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Door+ding+removal

Actually your Wrong, this ID.4 is to compete against the Honda CR-V Hybrid Touring which starts @ $36,050 and Toyota Rav 4 Prime which starts @ $38,100. Even VW says so. I think this is very competitive to those other compacts. Interesting is when you compare the details of the ID.4 to the Honda and Toyota, they are very identical.

Fed

Thanks for the update on the loaner. So sorry for you Blu as a door ding I have always seen taken out without any drilling. That is an amateur's move and I would fire who ever they used. That really blows. Sorry to hear that they damaged your truck.

EcoSport above base has a Inflator Kit. LOL, too funny. Think I would want the real tire. That is surprising that you cannot opt to get it above the base trim. Very Weird.

VW showed off their production electric EV CUV. AWD with 250 mile battery pack will start at $44,890. Their RWD model is available starting Q1 2021, Q3 2021 is when the AWD model will go on sale at VW dealerships. VW says they will have about 160,000 available $7,500 tax credits when this goes on sale to help lower the price. RWD is 201HP, AWD is 302 HP, 0 to 60 in 8 seconds, will compete with the Honda CR-V and Toyota Rav4. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1129702_2021-vw-id-4-250-mile-electric-suv-starts-at-41490 ID.4 Pro

WOW, Dunkin Donuts to Close 800 locations, 8% of their stores and push to a contactless store experience much like the Amazon Fresh stores on top of other changes. Pandemic is really going to change the interaction of how we shop, interact with others, etc. https://www.eatthis.com/dunkin-major-changes/ https://www.eatthis.com/dunkin-closing-locations-for-good/?utm_source=msn&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=msn-feed

RIGHT! Why not a Moses, Cain or Budda.

Found your Potato auto. Potato Power!!!