Utility company gets X% of the money charged to share holders.
Rates can go up to cover the cost of building new generation plants.
So - build the most expensive generation plant you can get away with.
Rates get moved up.
Utility company gets same X% just of a bigger pie.
Profit!

Nothing like burying your head in the sand to make your troubles go away.

Look at the pattern of many of the big rate gains:
1) Investors want more money from rate payers but they get a fixed percentage of the rate
2) Rate increases are easy to push through if you can show big costs in new generation plants
3) Build most expensive type of generation plant you can get away with
4) Request rate increase to recoup cost of building expensive generation plant
5) Rate gets increased because that is what happens most of the time
6) Profit!

I had to let my student help go because of the sudden cost bump on bagpipe parts that had already been paid for and shipped. The Tariff money equated to their part time salary for several months. If we knew what was going on we could plan for it. Now we just have to hope we can hold on until things change again.

Definitely do not want those farmers and ranchers through the middle of the country to get their hands on affordable high speed internet.

More electric vehicles and renewable energy projects saves more of our oil for military use making the U.S. more secure. The fact that it also makes our air and water cleaner is just a nice bonus for being an energy patriot.

Just like 0 to 60 time has always been.

After driving for 3+ hours I like a break to stretch my legs and maybe have a light snack. 15 minutes is a plenty fast recharge time to go from 20% to 80% on a decent size battery. Two fast charges during the day and then a level 2 charge at night easily covers 8 hours of driving on a cross country trip.

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

—Martin Luther King, Jr.

hey chatgpt show me where there may be memory vulnerabilities in this c code

If it finds ones that you did not, then you actually learn something and you learn to make your code better.

Number of registered cars in the U.S: about 300,000,000
Number of gas stations in the U.S.: about 150,000
So, one station for every 2,000 registered cars.
Let's be generous and give each station 20 pumps.
So one pump for every 100 registered cars.
1 public charger for every 20 electric cars is starting to sound pretty good.
Especially when you compare filling a gas tank at home to charging an EV at home.
(Registered car and gas station estimates from googling.)

I only buy 5 to 10 books a month.

Even with replacing our ICE car with an EV, we are using about half of the electricity compared to what we were using 15 years ago. As lights burned out we replaced them with LEDs. As appliances wore out we replaced them with high efficiency ones. We also added switches to outlets of devices that have parasitic loads - like TV, microwave, and laptops. We added insulation to the attic and crawl space.

One of our biggest savings was replacing our chest freezer with a 24VDC one with battery and solar panels. It only pulls from the grid a few months a year when the battery gets too low. Since we are going to cover the deck for summer shade we will do a solar panel shade for more solar power.

It is just a research tool.

a wave, a smile, followed by a nice loud "amazon sucks!"

and make a note of shows & movies that we are currently watching, think we would like to watch, or have been recommended. Takes longer to get a show started on the roku than it takes to pick what to see next.

Switching away from cable was a good decision for us. Pick what want and when we want to watch and spend less than half what comcast was charging per month all with no commercial interruptions.