Sounds about right. Having worked at a gas station while in highschool and college in the 90s the profit on a single gallon of gas was typically in the $0.00 to $0.03 range. It was all about the inside sales: pop, chips, overpriced milk, smokes, silly expensive 3.2 beer.

Considering that the ones in my city are all aluminum ones they are already valuable as scrap and no one seems to be stealing them I wouldn't worry too much.

As far as efficiency goes there doesn't look to be much difference at the moment between sodium vapor lights and LED lights. That said LED lights will probably become the clearly superior option in the future. As far as the solar panel I would suggest having it be large and have a reflective bottom (not shiny but brilliant white) so that the light that bounces back up to it will get reflected back down. This should help decrease the amount of light pollution and also make it so less light needs to be produced.

Man I which where I live was at a 5 on the Bortle Scale. It looks more like it is sitting at about a 7. Thankfully I own some land about 2 hours away that is a 3 on the Bortle Scale.

I hope you saved those e-mail chains so when management comes looking for some one to hang you can prove they need to be the ones wearing the noose.

That they are. I think a lot of them while written with good intention were written by people who don't fully understand the topic they are legislating on.

The hunting regulations for what is acceptable ammunition is a rather odd one for example here in Minnesota. It use to be that there was a minimum caliber and and case length requirement that at least attempted to ensure that you were hunting with humane cartridge for big game with a few special exceptions for some abnormally powerful rounds at the bottom end though one of the things excluded was .223 (and 5.56x45) since it didn't meet the minimum caliber requirement (.25) and a lot of people apparently wanted to hunt with it. So a few years back instead of adding an exception for that ammo they redid the requirement so that it now reads that acceptable ammo must be at least .22 caliber and be of center fire ignition. So now it is legal to use all sorts of awful stuff for hunting that would be really ineffective. So now it would be perfectly legal to go elk or bear hunting here and use .380 ACP fired from a plastic gun or something chambered in .25 ACP.

That would be the correct parsing. Sometimes my brain gets ahead of my typing and I miss a word and even upon rereading I will read that word in where it doesn't exist.

If their lucky. If not they get the same close encounter with the splitting maul as well.

What about spraying them with a garden hose on full blast?

I use #3 or #4 steel shot (3" magnum 12 gauge) for pheasant. When hit after it has traveled a couple hundred yards it hurts a little more than heavy rain but less than small (pea sized) hail. I've had it rain down a couple of times from people who were on the other side of a reasonable size stand of trees who shot over them.

No but that neighbor getting hit with a blast of water from the hose would be expected. Then again in my world the drone would have likely faced a similar fate from the garden hose.

Depends on the local regulations. In the city I live in it is illegal to discharge a firearm within city limits but an air rifle is perfectly acceptable. So I can use my very high powered .22 cal air rifle within city limits, but I couldn't fire a subsonic .22 short from a rifle. They are both very comparable in power and will put a hole through the various yard rodents and are effective against the invasive possum.

You mean like these little guys that were reported on over 2 years ago.