Only if you think numbers less than 4 are large. I can charge my focus electric from nearly zero range to full 60+ in less than 4 hours. My short commute is about 12 miles each way and when I am home it takes less than an hour to get back to full charge. Many days I drive much more than 60 miles. Just need a quick charge between runs.

Even if you get home with only 5 miles of range less, unless your kids/grocery are 20+ miles away you can just hook up to your charger and get about 4 miles for every 10 min of charge. So, hook up the car, chill for a bit, and then go hit the store, pickup the kids, etc... without worry.

You are joking right? Should I turn down the stereo also? These electric draws don't even register on range.

This simply isn't true. Yes they have a few drawbacks compared to gas cars but the positives blow those away in my calculations. Also, all those comparisons assume that you are a one car household. I don't know to many of those in my peer group. As long as you have one gas car in the fleet (or don't mind renting one occasionally) an electric car is great to own.

I love mine

There are several things you are missing from this. I have also shaved over $200 /mo off our gas expenses.
1) He probably went from a much older, more gas guzzling car to electric. This is what I did when going to my focus electric.
2) The electric car energy use isn't just a little less, it is a lot less.
3) In a 2+ car household the new electric tends to get used for as many trips as possible. In our house whoever is driving the furthest that day takes the electric. This makes gas usage in the second car much lower also.
My electric bill went up of course from charging the electric but not very much and we drive our focus 60+ miles 3 days a week and 20+ the rest.

I am pretty sure that Helium is not produced from natural gas but is extracted from it. Helium is produced and trapped underground via radioactive decay and it happens to get trapped in the same areas as the natural gas gets trapped. The gases being produced in landfills via decay are not helium. Just because you have natural gas doesn't mean you have helium.

Yet another reason that internet advertising isn't the great value it is said to be. Those of us who are targeted by the ads are using abp and the ads are being watched by people doing so only for the cash.

Now that we know the US Gov. has our country (plus Europe at a min) completely wired up for surveillance who are we to complain about the Chinese.

Well, the company I pay that to puts solar panels around town. Purchases wind power to feed our local grid. Funds renewable energy programs. Etc... However, I could just continue to put gasoline in a regular car and spend my time harassing anyone trying to do something more.... Nah, I'll stick with being part of the solution.

Well since the largest producer of wind power equipment is in Denmark and since Denmark uses 30% wind power..... Regardless, as we hopefully move toward renewable sources of energy then more of our electricity will come from renewables. As more of our energy comes from renewables we will be building our equipment to harness renewable energy from other renewable energy. At some point we could hit a critical mass where renewable energy is powering the majority of our electric cars/homes/businesses. It is a simple feedback loop which has huge potential gains. If we remain naysayers simply stating that most of our electricity is from coal right now thus electric cars are not good and fossil fuels are better we will never reach the much better endgame.

Yes that's true. But it seems to be also true that the battery is quite recyclable. Thus, as we end up with more electric vehicles ending their life cycle the environmental costs of newer vehicles will be mitigated through the recycling of older electric cars.

Of course it depends on the energy source. I purchase wind powered offsets to power my focus electric. This changes the equation greatly.

As soon as we moved into our new house I replaced all the switches with an Insteon system and an ISY-99 controller. I absolutely love it. Being able to turn off all the lights in the house from the bedroom is great. I can put the kids lights on timers, see if any lights are on, have the sprinkler system turn on per water need (connected to weatherbug), setback the thermostat automatically when we leave the house, have a night kitchen run scene, etc....

A DIY friendly system and the programming language on the ISY is easy to use and quite flexible.

I have been very happy and wish I had done it on the old house.

#2 favorite thing (actually probably #1 but it is not really a remodel item) is a whole house Sonos system. The perfect audio sync and ease of listening to anything anywhere in the house is great. I used to be a developer for GiantDisc (which still has the best cataloging system available anywhere) but the Sonos ease of use and perfect audio sync won me over.

Even worse, they still limit what you can see. The BBC has Olympics coverage right with their iplayer and catchup links. That's the way we all want to watch TV and we are willing to pay for it as well.

We get a ton of these calls at our restaurant. It costs us time taken away from actual customers on the fear that we might actually get a real relay call someday. However, I can pretty much guarantee that it will never happen. The caller always asks for 50+ of the exact same item (never on our menu but generic enough to be on most restaurants menu). I wish we could class action sue AT&T for our business costs dealing with these fraudulent calls. FYI, we have found that the best way to shorten up the call is to ask how the weather is in Nigeria. Pretty much guarantees a disconnect.

I wonder if there will be some announcing strategy to try and be the one to announce planet #1000.

And this sort of BS ties into their solving the Innovators Dilemma how exactly? Is Apple's left hand communicating with it's right?

We sort of do that via our real-time beer list on our website but browsing the print menu is still more popular. You can see the sized list we are dealing with on The Bayou's beer list