Yea, keep them out of the passing lanes, acceleration to pass a few cars or that other truck uses more fuel than many miles traveled. Trucks in the third lane from the right on a four- lane road are always over the posted speed limit.
No no no no no... Drive across Texas for long distances at 65mph or less and you will start to doze off. We have 75mph and even 80mph stretches of road. When they lowered the speed limit to 55 back in the 70s it was very painful. It is very common for people to drive several hours each way to go somewhere here.
I could get my 2013 F150 4x4 with the 5.0 and crappy low rolling resistance non off road get stuck tires to read 22 mpg on the computer if I stayed below 55mph and kept my foot out of it. I didn't buy the truck to get 22mpg, but to do work. If I were on a busy highway and tried that hypermiling bs I would get run over here. You have to drive the conditions. Where I live if you drive 5 mph below the speed limit you cause a traffic jam and may cause an accident as people try to go around you. It is one of the perks of having millions of people moving to Texas.
When CA deregulated the electricity market in the 90s there were many problems. Lawsuits were filed over price gougning and supply. They manipulated the markets.
It's jsut like everything else. They need to raise taxes more to pay for the upgrades.
That won't work in Texas. We have temps in the 90s at midnight during summer. There is no solar being produced at that time. ERCOT keep telling us to limit power usage. What will happen with a million EVs charging overnight? I do realize some solar farms now charge batteries to pull power from during times where we don't get enough sunlight. I'm not turning off my a/c for people to charge EVs.
Solar will never be a sole source of electricity, but it may be a good adder for augmenting peak summer cooling demand, as the peak demand for cooling aligns pretty well with peak production from solar. Nukes to carry that midnight base load, with solar (and others) to add daytime peak capacity.
I'll give up mine, when you give up yours.
They are hitting the diesel shops hard. Gonna mess around and see a bunch of hillbillies drag their 7.3, LB7, LLY, LBZ out of the woods and build some 700HP coal rollers. I know the demand for pre emission diesels is sky rocketing. I'm so sick of these trash bag politicians. Ship kids to a island and meh no problem, remove your EGR and you can expect a armed raid. Absolute scum.
My comment was a poke at the climate change adherents who want us to eat bugs, drive EV's and ban gas stove while traveling across the planet in private jets that have a carbon footprint in one trip more than your car has in a lifetime.
Electric vehicles actually run on coal or nuclear power, or a combination of both.
Ford has said that future ICE Mustangs will be rev-able from the key fob. As though they aren't noisy enough now, owners will be revving their engine from the kitchen table over coffee. Why?
I suggest you watch Idiocracy. Its not fiction its a prophecy.
Well, after putting in over 20 years with tractor trailers and 80 plus mph, I got news for you, 80,000lb truck running 80 plus is down right dangerous, even on the interstate. Mine will run 87 but you have to calculate stopping distance when some idiot does something stupid in front of you. I am not a fan of limiters in any way but 80 plus is just not ever needed.
Have another glass of Kool Aid!
That’s sort of claiming your chainsaw runs on 2-stroke oil alone. Of the 4 Billion megawatt hours of electricity we produce each year, roughly 0.8 billion of that comes from coal, which is even less than the fraction of our electricity coming from renewables.
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