Recent content by k1xv

Jerry Garcia should be on this list.

Kinky Friedman, "Sold American" (1973, Vanguard) Big Brother & the Holding Company - Janis Joplin "Cheap Thrills" (1968 - Columbia)

Cabin filters filter out particulates and dust, not smells. Gee, I grew up in Northern New Jersey in a town called Kearny NJ. To the west was a linoleum factory. To the north was a plant that processed urea. To the east was garbage dumps and pig farms. To the south was a slaughter house...

I knew someone who wanted to buy a repairable used motorcycle that had accident damage. He had the chutzpah to call the survivors of people killed on their motorcycles, to see if they wanted to sell the motorcycle involved in the accident.

I buy CPO cars with warranties from the dealer. They are low mileage, coming off of leases, and dealer maintained from new.

I was iaway n EUROPE and where the car was parked, no electricity was available for a battery maintainer.

It depends in part on the onboard electronics that stay alive even when the car is "shut off". For my 2022 Corvette, I don't trust it for more than 10 days or so. For my diesel BMW X5 SUV, I recently was out of the country for a full month and it started fine on my return. But it has an...

It would be unfortunate if your hearse never made it to the cemetery because of a dead battery.

A barrel of oil is 42 gallons, or 168 quarts. If oil has gone up $50 a barrel, that is about 30 cents a quart. If a quart of oil retails for about $9, adding 30 cents would be a price increase of about 3.5% Maybe they will get around to it at some point.

Mitsubishi is an enormous Japanese conglomerate company that has made everything from ships and aircraft to vehicles, cameras (Nikon) and canned tuna fish. Their cars have never had a stellar reputation. Buy a Toyota.

Yes, I see them there.

I live just outside of Weston. We have Shell in Brattleboro, Bennington, West Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Ludlow, Rutland, White River Junction, and Route 4 west of White River Junction. That is all I can remember off the top of my head.

Sounds to me the store was built in an isolated location far from existing utility service. The utility likely wants them to pay for the cost of line extensions, but Hobby Lobby has not agreed to pay. My career was in utility regulation and negotiation on behalf of larger consumers. Line...

Sounds like they need to live "off the grid" with a solar array, wind turbine, a storage battery, and if all else fails, a diesel generator.

Gulf is no longer an oil company. Its a trade mark. In different parts of the country, different suppliers own the right to sell Gulf labeled fuel. In Vermont, Gulf stations are supplied by Cumberland Farms.