Agree. It's called a 'lock screen' for a reason. it shouldn't show any sensitive information until it's been unlocked. I'm ok with it showing the time, or how many missed calls/messages I have. But in no way, want any info from the messages, senders, callers or anything else showing, for privacy reasons. The whole point of a lock screen is to keep someone who might gain access to your phone from casually using it, or reading messages, etc.

I'm surprised at the amount of crap that Android and some phone makers/carriers wants to show on a lock screen these days by default. What is the point, just turn on to the homescreen if that is the case.

To be honest, I'm sure in the cities like LA area and SF areas, the median is most likely way higher. The median I posted is for the entire state, which also includes the central valley and northern california that are more rural, so I'm sure those areas bring the median down. But it's not like you can live in Shasta county and work in Silicon valley, or live in Fresno and commute to LA.

Has it occured that maybe as individuals we ARE making our choice for ourselves? It's just not the one that you might agree with, so you are advocating that government FORCE everyone to make the same decisions as you. The fact that my choices don't match up with what you think is best is the EXACT reason that we have a limited government and restrictions on what they are allowed to do.

Since the US is the last free coiuntry on earth where the government gets its powers from the people rather than the other way around, I'd rather like to keep it that way. If there are any people in the US who desire to have the EU style of government control and loss of individual liberty they are free to go live there or any other place. But since there is no other country on earth that has individual rights as the cornerstone of liberty, there is no other place for those of use who want to keep that to go. PS: that is why EU is not highly regarded here in the states, we left for a good reason a couple hundred years ago, and most of us don't have a desire to copy you guys in any way shape or form. Maybe if you had a government that didn't want to interject itself into every aspect of peoples lives, we'd care about what EU thinks more.

MORE options is the best corse of action, not killing a perfectly working option that is the best option for many people, so you can force a less functional, more limited, higher priced EV option. It's best to keep both options, and let the EV options fend for themselves.

Sounds like you might live in a EU country (Germany maybe?). Here in the US, that is most definately NOT what the governments job is. Their job is described in the US constitution, and gives them specific functions. Just because they crossed the line over the limits of what they are allowed to do, does not mean we should beg and hope they do it some more, to a even bigger degree.

I stand by what I said for at least the US... that is NOT the governements job. As a free people, we should be able to make those choices ourselves without being forced.

housekeeping and cable TV are fixed fees. Electricity for vehicle charging is not fixed, it's directly related to the usage. I should add that hotels DO charge extra for room service and pay-per-view movies. Those are not fixed price and so they charge... If they didn't charge for those items, then everyone would mooch, and order $200 of room service for free (because they can), and watch new movies on the house more. The hotel does not have those costs built in and fixed like they do others, it's more on demand. Like EV charging is.

you also confirmed what I fear, that over the long time, they'll build the price in to the cost of the room, which means that those who drive gas cars to the hotel get shafted and charged for something they aren't going to use. They will look at the other hotel across the street that doesn't make them pay more for something they don't need. Or will the hotel start giving gas cars a voucher to the gas station down the street for some free gas in the amount equivalent to the electrical costs for charging all night?

Your right, but that would kill everyone's argument about it only being viable if they charge at work. So is it still viable if everyone who would want to charge while at work, are asked not to by their employer because it's for patrons instead?

I'm not sure if your joking. I never said I had a junk heap. A one car garage with shelves on one side (which came with the house) means you can pull a small compact car in and open one door, I tried it once when I first moved in, before I put anything in the garage, and it was a tight fit. If a passenger wants to get in, you have to pull the car out first so they can get in. Not to mention, I work on stuff myself, so I have tools and toolchest, air compressor and other stuff one needs when they do all their own work on their cars and around the house. I also added a sub freezer so I can buy groceries in bulk, and have kids, that have bikes. None of it a hoard of junk, but my small Subaru WRX barely fit before all that stuff, how am I going to fit my bigger car, or minivan, or pickup in there.

You should pick a valid statement instead of using personal attacks about someone being a hoarder just because they don't have a 400 sq. ft., 3-car garage with room for cars and necessary man stuff.

Well, they'll still have to survive the hunger and and other nasty things being destined to be destitute because they owe more money for your Tesla discounts than they'll ever be able to pay back.

The difference is the bathroom wasn't mandated by law. A private, non-shared bathroom is something that everyone naturally wants already. So their are market forces that drive the change to put bathrooms in each dwelling, and not have common/shared baths. This isn't the case with EV. You can see on this board alone, half people might want it, and half don't. If it's not something that people want on their own, you can't make them want it. and if the demand isn't there, then the natural market forces won't be strong.

It's not the governments job to carrot+stick everyone to change what they want by using tax dollars collected by force (or threat of force) and help make it affordable. I was against it with Solar and and I am with EV's. "Coordinated incentives" as you put it, is another term for steal from everyone and give it to someone elses plan. If they have enough money to give rebates and incentives, then my (and your) taxes are too damn high and they have too much money to play around with and waste.

I agree with you. If the wealthy like Schumer, want EV so bad, I think we should first require all of Congress-critter's private jets to be converted to EV. Let's see how they like when they have to wait on the tarmac several times in different city's in what they call "fly-over" country while they try to get Washington and back. Let them experience the inconvienience first hand. One of their private jets pollute way more on one trip to DC than my car will in it's lifetime. START THERE FIRST. Talk about range anxiety in an EV plane... :)

California did this with Solar, now requires solar to be installed on ALL new residential houses built...

That's one of the many reasons that the median price of a home here where I live is over $700K (yes, that is right) and a decent home in a decent neighborhood (ie: schools, parks, less crime) is more like >$900K.

And you think the Fed should start doing the same by requiring EV charging whether you have one or not too?

I'm a property owner. I live in a home with a 1 car garage that was built in the 40's. My house doesn't even have 3-wire grounded outlet wiring anywhere. My breaker box is full, and would need a complete redo to add anything (because in the 40's, power requirements weren't much). And you think it'll be easy or affordable to update my house's electrical system? I think not.

Say I do it anyway, and drop the coin. Still no good. I have a one car garage (that is mostly storage as I can't fit any cars in it and open the doors to get out). So I have 3 cars in the driveway. How are my cars going to get charged, by a charger that is in the garage, that I can't fit a car into well, let alone 3 cars? Top that off with the fact that I'm already a Teir3 electric user (get charged way more per KWH after Teir1 alotment). So trying to charge my cars with electricity would only put me in higher teirs and probably double my electricity bill per month.

no thanks...

in the bay area, the stores like Costco that have gas pumps are always SOOOO crowded. Nothing like thousands of people flocking to the same gas station because they save .05 / gal.

This is what I don't get. You can't fill up gas for free at a hotel, so why should you get subsidised by all the other hotel guests so that you can plug in and charge your car for free?

better yet, how long with that last, when a hotel has 50 guests that all want to charge for FREE while they are there. Obviously hotels and stores will not be able to sustain this for long, they will either not be able to afford additional chargers to keep up with demand, or they will have to charge, either directly to those using it, or raise all prices for a night at the hotel to cover the cost of charge stations and electricity.

This is still not ideal. I only go to the grocery store maybe once or twice a week, and we (spouse and me) are in and out in 20-30 minutes for a normal grocery trip. Costco is not much longer. We don't dilly-dally at the store and kill 2 hours there either... so even if we had tried to charge our car, it would only get a half hour or so on there. And that is assuming that you can find an available one. Sure it's easier now probably, but when everyone is switching over, then what ever hand-full of chargers that are in a parking lot are going to be full all the time.

Most likely, the workers that get there early will park there to charge their cars "at work" while the customers can't. Remember, your work charger in the parking lot may be someone else's shopping center charger too if it's the same parking lot.