Recent content by FISHTAIL

Agreed. I had a 2002 330i with the premium and sport packages that I drove around for a number of years. Loved that car. It was fun to drive, got good gas mileage, and it was easy as crap to work on. Unfortunately, the maintenance schedule for the BMW's is a little steep, but nothing is hard...

Well, I got an answer on this one from someone at work. Apparently, this stretch of road was paved for study purposes. They are supposedly going to keep an eye on how it wears over the next year or so, and based on some set of unknown criteria will then decide if the rest of the road should be...

No kidding, those ruts look like something that belongs down at Budds for a motorcross jump. I see guys trying to ride the top of those all the time, in order to avoid dragging the frame on the hump. Then you have the speed bumps you mentioned, which I recently noticed get progressively worse...

Neat. I haven't seen one of those before. I think someone keeping the books got that hill confused with the one up near Wilson drive where the ruts are so bad small children could get lost in them.

Understood, but that doesn't explain this section's location. All of the heavy truck traffic that destroys the road is on the north end, not down where this section of road was re-done. The pavement on this particular stretch of road wasn't even that bad compared with the rest of 210...

Nah, they just finished it like last week, and now the asphalt is stripped on either end of it. It's just odd that they choose to do it in such a small area, on only one side of the road, and in that particular location where it was least needed.

Oh goody. Traffic backups in the evening so we can have 1/2 mile of random concrete roadway.

Does anyone here happen to know why they bothered paving that small section of northbound 210 with concrete? It looks like they are about to pave the area in front of it with traditional asphalt, so for whatever reason, just the northbound side of that one hill is now a concrete roadway. What...

Good question. It will, eventually. When I signed up, SMECO was right about 14cents kWh. If that rate held, it would take 7 years for my PPA rate to match SMECO's. So almost half of the PPA contract, before the rates were equal. Beyond that point, again assuming no price increases from...

Not right now it's not, but it was when I signed up. You also aren't counting the distribution charges, the empower md charges. The cost has gone down a touch since I signed on with solar, as it's now a little over 12 cents for me (your post just made me check my bill), but when I signed onto...

Exactly, this is exactly how they make their money. I did a whole bunch of research on this before I signed on with Solar City, but what you stated is exactly what they are doing. I'm doing a PPA, not a lease, which is the missing 3rd option from the post above. Lease, PPA, Purchase. They...

I was taught something similar in drivers ed many moons ago. Passing on a double yellow was legal, provided the vehicle you were passing was going at least 10 under the limit, and you could clearly see 150 yards or more down the oncoming lane. Don't ever remember seeing anything about that in...

Paying taxes doesn't do much good if you are paid from taxes. Buying things in state I'll give you though. And sure, they are supposed to serve some purpose, and some do..but many are either way underutilized, or are doing something that there really is no need for a person to do. As far as...

This is pretty common. Federal government too. There are many employees, all throughout government, who pretty much get paid to do nothing. I don't even like to think about all the waste I've seen over the years because it just gets me upset. Trust me, there could be some pretty major cuts...

I didn't even think of that. I wasn't really yapped at this morning, but it's happened to me before. I just had some guy telling me I had to "support the teachers union" and giving me a pamphlet telling me who they wanted me to vote for. I didn't even read it, and it wasn't even good for...