Electric vehicles can't

[slowmover]

As far as schools, one can’t overcome the predictive success of DNA. Some groups don’t benefit (and won’t) past age 12. It’s a major mistake (not a mistake, actually, as it’s war) to have rendered our high school’s academic schedule meaningless. Taxpayer daycare with sports teams. Literacy and numeracy cannot be assumed.

The last group to have been well-served by public schools graduated in 1945. Read the late John Taylor Gatto. Online.

Redpoints double attempt about gas service is worth your while, strictly from the standpoint of economy, household economy. Not using a service is distinctly different from being unable to use it.

Predicating low cost on physical labor is great until you can’t. “Why” won’t matter.

At the very least, appliances that can run on NG or propane with a conversion kit.

In looking over my travel trailer I realized it would be KINDA stupid to not maximize each energy source: propane, 12V-DC or 120V-AC electric, and capable of handling 50A service (not just 30A).

Take any need, or any situation, and extrapolate. Can I run the whole thing from a single type source?

I decided stoopid really was: availability, but without ability to use.

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[Xist]

John Taylor Gatto said more Americans could read before the U.S. implemented public schools and some communities were so opposed the government sent armies to force children to attend. He said that instead of attending high school, kids should be assigned to different apprenticeships, so that by the time they graduate, they should know what they want to do with their life, and have the skills to do so.

[oil pan 4]

I have gasious fuel, propane. It costs more than natural gas but does not have a surcharge.
Not having the surcharge during the summer buys over 200lb worth of propane.
So far I have two 100lb tanks, three 40lb tanks, four 30lb and I don't even know how many 20lb tanks.
I have collected and exchanged so many obsolete scrap yard 20lb propane tanks I will probably sell most of them off on Craigslist next BBQ season.

[slowmover]

The “ability to read” isn’t the average 6th grade skill we see in adults today. The point about adults being able to read presupposes a number of items.

Literacy is again more than that.

Today we live in a world where Ivy League matriculants haven’t read or heard of, The Iliad.

Live in a backwater and expect that your children are forever hindered.

It’s like hurricane preps on the coast. Your house survived. But not your neighbors. Not any of them. No insurance, either.

Bye-bye to whatever you’ve “invested” in that house.

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[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by slowmover

Live in a backwater and expect that your children are forever hindered.

I think it's more often the other way around, myself. Live in a non-backwater, and your kids have access to all sorts of organized* activities that fill their time but give them no opportunity or incentive for real learning.

*To say nothing of the disorganized ones.

[Xist]

There was a while when I met many illiterate adults. They said "Our parents didn't teach us to read, they taught us to work!"

I cannot tell you how many times I figured out how to do something by reading.

Successful families have different priorities than unsuccessful ones. If your dad is an attorney, you very well will pursue something lucrative that requires a higher education. If your dad works at McDonald's, you very well may spend your time at McDonald's telling your coworkers how you will become a great athlete and\or rapper.

I am not even sure that I can become a Speech-Language Pathologist. I really need to sign up for one or more classes for next semester and apply to grad school again, but I estimate a high possibility of failure of both endeavors.

Perhaps the best-case scenario is that I sign up for seven credits again, my agency gives me twelve new clients, and I earn enough to pay for the school before I start losing hours.

Many people would tell me that I need to be positive, etc.

I have a history of failure. I just watched a two-hour video for work three times and still guessed on 2/10 questions.

Good times!

[slowmover]

It’s group outcomes. Based on geography, one family or a handful aren’t exceptions that matter.

Thus cancel the snowflake defense: but you don’t understand, we’re different (special).

A state that is reliant on subsidies and transfer payment doesn’t have a future. Consider that was a rug that should never have been installed; and is long past overdue for removal.

Which is a matter of when. Not, if.

Humans build cities. Centers. Some have a future. Many don’t. Why is worth your time.

[ellenor2000]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

NM requires a licensed and bonded contractor to install gas service before they will turn on the gas. They specifically made it so DIY initial gas installs can't happen.
I can change over the water heater no problem.
For furnaces I have replaced gas with gas, fuel oil with gas but never heat pump to gas.
I actually looked for almost a year for a cheap gas dryer in good condition. All I could find was junk or brand new for $500. I eventually just went to the local used appliance shop and got one for about $260.
My wife already has the gas range she wants picked out, I don't remember exactly which one it is but it's not cheap.

I like the non electrical simplicity of a wood stove and the inherent design of having large amounts of fuel stored on site.
The coal furnace has electrical blowers but I have a 24v forklift battery out in the garage and an samlex power inverter. The battery should be able to power the blowers via power inverter for a few days when the power goes out.

Is it counted as licensed fitter installed if a licensed fitter inspects it and finds it satisfactory?

[oil pan 4]

They are not supposed to be doing that.

[oil pan 4]

I insulted some ones man hood when I put 2 pallets on my trailer and the other guy could only get one in his pickup truck.
Bet he didn't even realize my car is electric.