That garden work is so satisfying. To watch the earth bring forth food that your own hand has sown brings great satisfaction that you don’t need to grocery store. Almost as good of a feeling as potatoes sizzling in hot grease…lunch time I think
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My Dad used to tell me he would run into the street and pick up the horse shite as it dropped and bring it home for the victory garden. ( reminds me of the joke of the polish boy that run home with a hand full of dog poop and says Mum look what I almost stepped in, but Dad had a bucket and spade HA HA ) Everyone used to grow food because of rationing. Maybe if we appreciated the effort of growing quality food like they did before we got the tomato that could circle the earth and return fresh we would appreciate a garden a little more…
That is some very fine dark healthy looking soil!!!
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The two most important numbers to realize is that in the USA alone we buy 17 million new cars that last on avg 12 year. So from the time the last ICE car is sold new it would on avg take 12 years to cycle them off the road. Ofcourse people drive older cars both of mine are older than that but the avg is the important number for a society wide perspective. I think the general talking point is new car sales to be EV by 2030 so 2040 ish for the end of ICE would follow. I have no idea how you ramp half a million or so new EV in 2020 to 17 million on 2030. But mass production is crazy.
The important part being that we already replace all those registered cars every 12 years
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In ten years if you look at the old pictures of cities before and after the great war the before photo’s of street were full of horses and nary you saw a car. Then after the horse was the one that did not belong. Ten years can flip over everything as we understand it.
While piddling since its a rainy day and my shop is leaky, I was looking on both of my trucks for easy holes to route wiring and choke cables. Huzzah I found it on the Sierra for the eventual 4.3 char or maybe raw wood build. The hood release cable route! And it’s right behind my fuse box so I can route the wiring there too.
And here’s a place for the Mazda to meter air via choke cable.
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Obama goal was to drive the cost of the electric vehicle to the same as the gas version by 2030 and let the market develop more or less on it’s own without a mandate because at the same price point, people will buy electrics and you kind of want slow growth because other things like infrastructure and charging stations need to get done. And heck it can be expensive to install a home charger, if you can at all (ie you might be renting.)
Biden seems to be getting pushed by the far-left nazi’s rather then just stick with the plan, but I haven’t really read up on what Biden is trying to do.
There are too many people pissing their pants because of global warming, and are way too impatient to let manufacturing catch up. The real problem is you need to get like 12 things done, and they aren’t all going to be finished at the same time, and there is no easy button for some of it.
That is more like the previous system where every manufacturer was responsible for maintaining the own fleet mileage with their own vehicles which led to companies that build trucks to have to make and sell small vehicles and sell them at a loss to meet the fleet mileage requirements.
Obama changed it so they could actually BUY credits from another company like Tesla, to cover their shortages so long as they met the fleet mileage requirements, and it keeps the US fleet mileage goal. Because they are able to use the credits over a multi-year period they fluctuations of oil prices don’t adversely affect them, they don’t have to detune engines at the beginning of the release cycle to make sure they can make the necessary incremental improvements.
This is also why GM and Ford could exit the small car market where they weren’t selling enough volume to make a profit. Granted they make mini suv form factors now.
Overall, it actually gives them a lot more freedom and takes away a chokehold on what they can do with their business. Anyone can build a fleet of the 60s boats with the big block v8s provided they buy the credits to cover emissions. The governments goal is to get the US Fleet mileage avg not mess with how a company achieves it.
I know there was a lot of misinformation in part because Obama did it, and the european automakers like Fiat and VW were upset so they stirred up a bunch of noise and misinformation because all the sudden GM and Ford could become profitable instead of choked like they have been since the 70s because of the policy.
The point is the old policy was extremely bad for US owned automakers and one of the reasons why they were failing.
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Piss your pants just one time, and your labeled a pants pisser for life.
True…
It happened to me.
I had a chance to drive the Fusion Hybrid for a couple of weeks and hands down it was the best car I ever drove from Ford, maybe the best Domestic car I ever drove. My son and I would take this thing out to ride in just to listen to the sounds the drive made.It was soothing almost like the car was singing to you. And it was so good on gas.
Just a shame they stopped making it.
Ford actually made some pretty good hybrids. They were actually good at it, but not enough people bought them. Hybrids got hammered between the pure EV crowd and really ripped on hybrid buyers, and the v8 crowd. And hybrids cost more because of all the extra parts. I can buy a hybrid for 5k more or upgrade to a bigger engine and maybe the next trim level.
Then you have various other factors like people aren’t going to a ford lot to even look at a car. And various groups of people intentionally attacking them because of a vested interest in something else.
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Its still a shame, I went into the dealership here to see if I could buy one and was disappointed. Ford built a really great car there that did all I could ask for.
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They still have the 2020’s on their website, so there is probably dealer inventory somewhere of the fusion. They have Explorer, Escape and F150 hybrids for 2021 and of course the Mach E.
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Hello all.
I worked the work truck a couple hours this morning and this afternoon wife and I took a 50 mile joy ride on the back roads in the dakota . later in the day while checking cows we waited 10-15 min to make sure a cow had no problems calving.
Sorry about the snap shot, it didn’t turn out . I didn’t let the camera focus and may have been thinking of a couple days ago trying to tag a new born when the mama put me back in the truck 
HWWT
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The EVs are a good idea for a lot of people. BUT, our grid is already falling apart. There is nowhere near the generating capacity to change over to EVs.
Now, they tell us that 5g is going to take 61 times as much power as we now generate.
Just to make sure that we are dependent on big oil, “They” have a new plan
What a nice day Wayne. I wish I could have seen it myself
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Big oil is just as guilty as any other because the soot from oil is just as bad for you.
Since Covid I have to wear a mask everyplace and at all times and its made for an interesting observation. When I blow my nose its not black after a day in the mine. I know there is a lot of soot from diesel and I work in a tail pipe. If they had to pay the real cost of what that does to people’s health I think the oil industry would be out of business faster than the wood stove industry
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LMAO that article was the funniest thing I have read in a while. Thanks for sharing!!!
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Good morning Mr Wayne,
That video looks like paradise to me. You wouldn’t like it here right now. Up and down around freezing, gray and windy. We were sprayed with snow flakes yesterday and those few buds that started too show two weeks ago are still waiting to burst. Still burning more wood for heat than shaft power and it’s wet and muddy in the woods. Dreaming of chunking in the sunshine.
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Did you move to NH? Your weather sounds amazing simulator to mind at the moment. One day we are at 60F the next 30F. We haven’t gotten any spring rain to speak of just heavy clouds but no rain. I often think of that song from the 80s. But today I am worried I just might wake up somewhere over the rainbow.
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Got Vaccinated Got talking to manager from car dealership I told him I had a way of charging electric cars from wood . If the EPA does not ban it . With wood gas you produce half the power as any other fuel and three times the hassle . You could get a tax credit for whole cost ev charger , tax credit expired . I do not know if you would ever be allowed to charge car commercially from power made from wood . But coal power is fine .
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You can probably charge your car on wood so long as you buy the electricity from the power company who burns the wood chips…
The EPA will probably change their minds about coal now that the former coal lobbyist is no longer running the EPA.
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Sounds like I don’t have to, Dan 
I remember @Joni once said he always has bad weather. I found that funny. I feel like that sometimes.
BUT-as soon as I finished complaining the sun showed. I had a couple hours to kill before nightshift, so I went for a quick ride to the woods. Ended up chunking too. This little batch can steam off while I’m asleep tomorrow.
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