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You said 'short bed' [5.5'], not standard bed, I thought. Just seems silly to get such a short bed truck, but of course I shouldn't speak for everyone. I'm not at all happy there's no crew cab/standard bed 1500!

'Loud' is relative- no one is advocating decibels so high it causes death. But with many OEMs creating digitized, loud-speaker broadcast 'engine sounds' to warn pedestrians and offer 'audio appeal', the opposite is far closer to the truth- some noise is better than none. Dead silent electric cars are much more dangerous. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/americas-best-selling-cars-and-trucks-are-built-on-lies-the-rise-of-fake-engine-noise/2015/01/21/6db09a10-a0ba-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9eec23b0a5b8

Yea- the first 375 KW is .046. I can't complain about the overall bill however; my May22-Jun 22 gas & electric bill was only $138. July-Aug will probably be tween 150-160 w/ the increased A/C. EDIT :: 151.79 for July

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NJ- 5th largest power producer by solar, electricity still .17/KW.

No Standard bed/crew cab 1500, it seems. Shame- means the '19 Silverado 1500 is off my list. Also see that for it's HP/TRQ advantage over the 4.3, the 2.7 is down 800 lbs towing capacity vs. the 4.3.

Same article has Morgan Stanley saying $90/barrel in 2020, vs "$400/barrel". Speculation- the futures market out thru 2020 (and beyond) has it priced lower than today- if the bulk of investors thought it was going to explode in price they'd be bidding up. My takeaway from that link is that Gov't standards would be behind this vaguely possible "economic collapse"- what else is new?

Nah- it's a design appreciation thing (we're the same generation... tho I've always appreciated cars outside my generation/ what I was exposed to growing up). By the '70s. Mercs were huge cohesiveless clunks of driftwood; blocky, ugly, veloured-to-death and no appeal. My God: padded vinyl headlight doors! It was the beginning of the brand's demise as a 'second fiddle' to Fords, when just a few years earlier, the first gen Cougar was an upgrade to it's Ford sibling and the Cyclone Spoilers were thick in the musclecar craze. Merc had a great run '39-69 or so... but there's nothing pedestal-worthy after '70.

No, I didn't forget it; and I was paying diesel prices to boot. Remembering it and acknowledging it are not the same thing as predicting an unprecedented price skyrocket in 18 months. 07.03.08 : $145.29 12.26.08 : $37.71 04.29.11 : $112.29 12.12.14 : $57 .81 02.19.16 : $29.64 07.20.18 : $70.46 The prices bounces and fluctuates like a paper cup floating on the ocean waves. But $200/barrel? What's the source for that prediction?

Wow- and I just read oil could go to eleventy-billion dollars per barrel next month. You must be talking specifically about oil, because it was down to $30/barrel by December '08.

Know how many hard working American's have their retirement & 401K's invested in Wall Street??

You seem to be confusing 'car' and 'woman'.

I merely answered your question of 'how'.

Such fantastic, bubbly proportions. This is the only place I look for "curves".

CARB is an entity within the CA EPA. When they were founded is immaterial, legally. Cadillac doesn't overrule General Motors just because it was founded years before.

How is that odd? circa '53 Pontiac sedan, patina'd, rollin. 'circa '40 IH truck, utility body, dually, heavy patina, chopped cab, getting a ride ona flatbed. Coolest thing I've noted out on the road in 2 or 3 years.

It's not the internet. It's the vehicles. More players now in the market than since the 1930s. EVERYONE has sedans, CUVs, SUVs, full power features, AWD, hybrid/electric, alloy wheels, leather seats, screens, 2.0Lt, 3.0Lt, etc etc etc. There hasn't been a new creature comfort in what feels like decades. A hyundai was a junky, plasticy wheezing generic when a mercedes was a big, brash, powerful loaded car. Now you almost have to read the nameplates to tell them apart. What's to go see? That's exactly why bouncy castles and food trucks are such a crucial element.

I'm thinking the 'plaid cloth in entry Cadillac' is a mistake- I see nothing in the '80-81-82-83 brochures even close to that... but you didn't state a year span. Just doesn't 'ring right' to my recollection. Perhaps you are thinking of the designer Gucci Seville (tho this is pretty far from the image I was getting from your description) :

Anyone who seriously wants to review products needs to get this ingrained in their approach. Just because a particular feature (or in this case; a particular pairing of features) isn't done the exact way the reviewer prefers it, this is NO WAY justifies advocating people lose their jobs over it. A product review needs to take into consideration generalities and averages of the consumer at large, and over-the-top hyperbole causes MANY readers to 'shut down' on the review because right there it unhinges itself from reason. I, for one, can take or leave heated seats. My wife's car has them, I've used them countless times, they're kinda nice (she says she won't have another car without them). I don't want a heated steering wheel in any case, so while I might consider checking the heated seat option box (if offered separately), I'd only be happy to skip the heated wheel. Yet I'd never advocate unemployment (hyperbole) if they were paired together, and that's just me talking to myself.

I can stick 2 fingers thru the sender hole and hold them there. I hope.

Correct. Still, isn't this intriguing? story : https://buybatparts.com/cms/about/

Here's today's work; the factory 20-gal tank and the original fuel sender. Made up this deal- aluminum top plate drilled to accept the fuel elbow, a huge steel washer that was drilled & tapped, then split in half so I can fish it into the tank thru the sender hole. It's going to be mounted in that flat area southeast of the sender hole. Here's the point of this fabrication: enlarging the factory 1/4-in fuel line to a half inch.