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RE: RV insurance claim - flood
Details of this urgent situation would be interesting. You may be better off if they total the thing. You aren't going to be happy with an RV that has been flooded and "repaired" unless it's a down to the bones restoration. Service backlogs being what they are, even a relatively minor repair could have you abandoning the trip and returning home for the wait.
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shelbyfv
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01/19/23 06:19am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: RVIA Certificate?
I agree that it's probably just a way to weed out undesirables and a quick phone call would ease your mind. Sketchy folks from the entire eastern US seem to be sucked down to FL, then get stuck because they can't go any farther. For sure they have some unique problems.
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shelbyfv
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01/18/23 05:36am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
I want it too!! In fact, I hope to live long enough to get all mine and a bunch more as well. Currently 18.8 years to get bothEE and ER contributions, plus interest. So less than 10 years to get back our part. Those of us over 75 are cruising from now on!:B
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shelbyfv
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01/15/23 04:10pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
To paraphrase Fiddler on the Roof "May God Bless the Government, and keep it far away from us".Just repeat after me:
"We're from the government, and we're here to help you." :)Yep, get the guvmint off our backs! Well, unless they want to send a Social Security check or pay my bills with Medicare or keep the Ruuskies out of my backyard....:B
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shelbyfv
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01/15/23 03:07pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
Of course government tyranny and conspiracy theories are much better click bait than the truth.I won't be around but it would be interesting to see how historians write about the past 30 years. The era leading up to and including the Civil War has been described as a "derangement of the public mind." Citizens of 11 states collectively went off the rails. The conspiracy mindset of today is less excusable since folks have easy access to accurate info if they care to look.
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shelbyfv
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01/14/23 12:29pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
^^^ The CNN article is legit but I'm not sure it makes the point you think it makes. Musk sold some energy credits in a timely fashion. These credits would have been available to any mfg had they been producing low emissions vehicles. His rocket company made a bunch of money because NASA wanted transportation other than the Russians. Defense contractors get rich off taxpayer dollars, what's new or unique? Uncle Sam has bailed out Chrysler twice. Bailed out GM, $12 Billion. Bailed out S&Ls $130 Billion.... Yeah he's a reprehensible human but all this hand wringing is no more warranted than the sudden frenzy over "cobalt slaves" by folks with a house full of products from China.
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shelbyfv
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01/14/23 09:32am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
Speaking of subsidies, looks as if $2 Trillion of our money has been spent on post 9/11 wars. Pretty obvious subsidy to "Big Oil." Where do the, as Grit calls them, "goat fookers" get the $ to attack us and other advanced countries? Oil, maybe?
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shelbyfv
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01/14/23 08:08am |
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
Elon is not the richest (or was) man in the world from selling Teslas. It's because the US gave him Billions in funding from taxpayer dollars. I'm not fan of Musk, just another entitled rich guy IMO. Slams gov't subsidies for others while lobbying hard for his own. However his net worth has been as high as $320 Billion while his companies have received about $7 Billion from the Feds. To be fair, it wasn't all subsidies. Much of it was payment for work done on space stuff, misguided though it may have been. You are probably right that he didn't make his fortune from selling Teslas but he didn't get it from US taxpayers either. Facts can be inconvenient when they are so easily checked.:R
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shelbyfv
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01/14/23 07:28am |
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
Yes, South Florida will eventually be completely under water. Can we somehow blame this on Elon Musk and his vast conspiracy involving EPA and its counterparts worldwide, supported by virtually all scientists? And pedophiles, they're involved somehow....:h
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shelbyfv
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01/13/23 03:55pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
Nope, you won't find even one legitimate source that disagrees with what the EPA has published in that link. You can't believe in facts and science and deny climate change (or the net benefits of EVs) when virtually all scientists acknowledge it. As for kool aid, it seems to me that climate change deniers often embrace a plethora of other conspiracy theories.
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shelbyfv
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01/13/23 02:45pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Roadtrip by car vs RV, a couple of thoughts...
Definitely good to re-evaluate this periodically. I prefer to eat my own food in a clean environment and sleep in my own clean bed. On the other hand, 60+ mpg in the Prius puts a dent in the $ difference between a campsite and a hotel room. Plus it's much more difficult to get sites where we'd like to go than it was 20 years ago.
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shelbyfv
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01/13/23 02:31pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
What would be the nefarious "agenda" of the EPA? Are there legitimate non-government scientists who disagree with the info they provide?
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shelbyfv
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01/13/23 02:03pm |
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
Yep. One of the few places on the internet to find so many "don't need no science" anthro-whatever climate change deniers. I'll likely tire of it soon, maybe even before they die out! And hey- aren't you supposed to be at work this time of day?
Usually condescension is best served by those with some level of superiority. I don't see that here. People usually resort to those tactics when they run out of ways to communicate effectively. I also don't see any climate change deniers. What I do see is a lot of folks who pick bits of science to support their agenda. If you are so bent on the climate change solution, I have news for you. Ev's aren't it. They aren't even green, let alone more green than ICE's. Mining, caustic waste, continued reliance on the power grid, manufacture, shipment of raw materials, disposal of used batteries, etc etc. All of which solve zero problems with respect to the environment. Just kicking the can down the road. We won't address the continued support of poor humanitarian conditions or continued reliance on foreign countries.
Why are EV's better again?So you are on board acknowledging man made climate change but you don't think a move from ICEs to EVs will help? Well here's the scoop. Bad metals, slaves, yap,yap Thing is, this isn't new info. It's been available to anyone truly interested. TL;DR? EVs are greener.
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shelbyfv
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01/13/23 01:43pm |
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
Yep. One of the few places on the internet to find so many "don't need no science" anthro-whatever climate change deniers. I'll likely tire of it soon, maybe even before they die out! And hey- aren't you supposed to be at work this time of day?
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shelbyfv
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01/13/23 09:41am |
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
Would be interesting to know which of our EV haters are also climate change deniers. Separate blather from an informed post. Seems concerns are often repeated here that could be resolved with a quick Google, makes me think some folks just don't care to learn.
That would be interesting. As far as I am aware, I have not met anyone who denies that the climate changes.:W Haha- yep, I should have said anthropogenic climate change but it's a big word and I had to look up the spelling....
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shelbyfv
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01/13/23 06:00am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
Would be interesting to know which of our EV haters are also climate change deniers. Separate blather from an informed post. Seems concerns are often repeated here that could be resolved with a quick Google, makes me think some folks just don't care to learn.
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shelbyfv
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01/12/23 01:51pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
Skirt, skirt, skirt and cherry pick points to sell your position. My truck is superior in every way - including efficiency - to any EV for for pulling my FW. After a few misses you may actually be right about at least part of this!:S
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shelbyfv
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01/12/23 01:41pm |
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
You don't think utilities will increase once demand goes up from EV's? And that cost amortized to those that don't own EV's? We are talking a huge ramp up in electric infrastructure. I mean, we're already paying musk billions with subsidies. Dude, I've seen your posts and respect you, but this is a pretty thin argument.This is just inaccurate. As I posted earlier, 6%-8% if EVs are adopted as rapidly as hoped and that's over a period of at least 20 years. Google for yourself if you like. These things just aren't the huge power sucks some folks like to imagine.
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shelbyfv
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01/11/23 05:19pm |
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RE: Rivian R1S
I don't think I've ever seen either model on the road but apparently we now have a local service center. Think the building was a Chrysler/Dodge dealer awhile back.
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shelbyfv
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01/11/23 02:48pm |
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RE: EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
^^^ Ahhh I guess the good news is that EVs are predicted to require only a small increase!
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shelbyfv
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01/11/23 02:43pm |
Tow Vehicles
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