Drew Dowdell

@balthazar Why are you looking at chargers around your house? Those are the chargers you would never use. Unless you're eligible for Tesla Supercharging for free or some other free service, charging at public paid charging stations never makes financial sense. What you want to look for is chargers between you and long-distance destinations that you visit. Can you make it to your son's college and back on a single charge? If not, look up chargers either in-between or at his school. Those are the chargers you would use. You're not driving 300 miles a day every day unless you're doing work in Harrisburg. Think about the longest trips you've taken in the past three years and look at the chargers for those routes. Anything under about 100 miles one way and you don't need to even think about it because for those you'd charge at home. The point that I believe @David is trying to make is that you "fill up" every day at home. You'll never use any of the public chargers around you... or even within 100 miles of your place. You'd never charge at a customer's home not because of any cost... even at 20c/kWh you're looking at $2.50 max worth of electricity on a 110v outlet. You wouldn't do it because on a 110v outlet the charge rate is too slow to even bother. If a customer had a level 2 charger at their house and let you use it, you could knock $5 off their bill and you'd be more than even. I suspect that the people you see hogging all of the Tesla chargers at the mall are just cheapskates that don't want their electric bill going up $30 a month. They paid all that money for a Tesla with free charging and they feel entitled to use as much free charging as possible and abuse the system even though from an opportunity cost/hour it makes little sense to the likes of you and I who can math. You could put a dryer outlet in your garage, get a level 2 charger for home and NEVER need to visit a public charger except for the maybe 2 times a year you go to your son's university. (I realize that Covid changes a lot of this scenario, but I'm talking about when life goes back to normal)

I could totally see myself driving a Rivian truck to supplement my Avalanche in 5ish years. I won't get rid of the Avalanche, but I would like to slow down the number of miles I'm putting on it. (5,000 so far and have only owned it since August!)

Dealership. However, Carvana allowed me to test drive the Avalanche and do my own inspection on it before I agreed to buy it. I could back out at any point up to 7 days after signing the papers and taking it home as long as I didn't put more than 1,000 miles on it. I also could have refused delivery at the time of pickup with no penalty to me. There is no way all dealerships will move online only, but many will. The profit margin increase for them is too high to not pursue it. For people who don't care about cars and just want to point and click on an Altima for $199 a month, online only will work just fine. The only reason I bought the truck I did was because it was the truck it was... but I'm picky like that.

620 new cases today in Allegheny County. We've been over 500 every day since Sunday with the exception of monday when not a lot of tests were processed. Today is the worst day on record. 110 deaths statewide in PA today. We're down to 82 ICU beds left for an area of 1.2 million and occupancy is going up on average of 10 per day, so our ICUs will be at or over capacity before Dec 1. UPMC and AHN, our two largest hospital networks, have ordered freezer trucks for the bodies.

Same way I bought my Avalanche online. I went and test drove a local one to make sure my memory of what I had matched what I wanted.... basically, I made sure I still wanted one and then went and hunted one down. The one I test drove had been abused even though the mileage was low, that's why I didn't buy that one. Bought mine online from Carvana and they shipped it to me from Indianapolis in 4 days. I'd like a paintjob safe offroading trail to take the Avalanche on.

This one plus the Park Avenue was a time when Buick was trying to be an American Jaguar at its top end. Look at a final Park Avenue and an XJ of the same year and tell me you don't see similar lines.

Haha! I think you got the name wrong... but Game

Not sure what browser you are using, but if you're on Firefox, you can either right click the link and open in an Incognito tab or change your security settings to Strict for those concerns (the second option might break certain websites like C&G where you log in). Edge and Chrome you can set InPrivate mode to be strict browsing as well.

What link do you have saved? It looks like you might have saved a link to a specific post or stream.

Can you provide some screenshots?

If I could photocopy my best friend's dog and keep him as my own I would. He loves coming over to our place, it's like his second domain. I fold the seats down in the back of the avalanche and put blankets down and he rides around in the back with me.

Thanks guys, I had a really nice birthday. I got some cash from my family to put towards my motorcycle fund and I got a pasta extruder so I can now make macaroni and other extruded past shapes. I made 8 eggs of pasta for dinner last night and it turned out great. Saturday night I had a small group of friends over for pizza, drinks, and cake and my best friend left his dog with us for the night so I had him all Sunday as my shadow. It was nice and calm and I got a nice birthday present from the State of PA too. :-)

It’s that old? It was in great shape and most old mustangs around here are beat to hell

Did I miss a Ford press release on mustang engines?

No political discussion.

French Alps for me. It's a bit warmer.

I agree... I was simply stating step 1.

I know I can lock my front axle and I have the G80 on my rear axle.... I don't know if my center transfer case locks though.... now I need to go find out. We need comprehensive election process reform. No other countries have these problems we have with counting votes. As I often say, you can have Eco or you can have Boost, but you can't have both at the same time.

USA......?

Happy Halloween

I drove in the Bethel Park Halloween parade to hand out candy to kids instead of them having trick or treat. A nice selection of other classics.