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Tesla has company- lots of it!

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So, we’ve been discussing (Wednesday, yesterday)  electric trucks- the big rigs, Class 8 vehicles.  And, you’d think that Tesla was the only one getting ready to market these rigs from those discussions.  No way!

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Open Season?

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I know, I know.  You’ve had it up to here about health care reform.  But, this is important.

We know that the GOP has failed to repeal Obamacare.  We also know that TheDonald will do everything in his power to make it fail- and try to blame that on Obama.  Except any failure will be his fault. But, that’s not the point of this post.  (I will be posting another discussion on this topic in 3 months, when Open Enrollment starts in.)

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Roy G. Biv?

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I guess I should have known. But, not until I was 14, did I know this…

Back when I was young (you know, when Ben Franklin was flying his kite), chemical analysis used color testing to discern various components. And, while I had a full chemistry lab, I had stopped doing these kind of tests over the past 8 years. (My chemistry interests were more devoted to dialysis and hydroponics.) So, when I took chemistry in school, I asked the teacher what the various test colors were. Given the nature of who he was, Bob McManus (a great teacher) and who I was (a wise guy), he lied about the colors. And, I got half the unknowns wrong.

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Keep on Truckin? Nope, not any more…

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Many of you know I used to own a trucking corporation.  It was a captive- in other words, we used our authority (trucking registration) to haul our own products and raw materials.  We operated up and down the East and West Coasts, and radiated out to and from the Midwest.

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Look both ways…

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OK, it happened to me again, yesterday.  I was getting ready to cross the street- no one was coming- except for the car that just pulled out of the spot by the curb and almost hit me.  One of those danged electric cars that makes no sounds.  (I admit it; I was on the curb- but there is a clearly marked pedestrian crossing, which in this area means- STOP if I am on the curb.  But, of course, Mr. SaveTheEnvironment (actually it was a Ms.) obviously only cares about non-human things.)

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Company causes this misery!

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Many of you know I grew up in Greater New York City.  Where Robert Moses transformed the area to produce a plethora of roads and bridges.  But, even with all that building, traveling was tough.  The Southern State Parkway (which was the backyard of my childhood home) opened in 1927.  This four lane, 25 miles long, parkway started with tolls providing access to New York City for those on the Southern reaches of Long Island.  It became 8 lanes (city line to the Hempstead Lake State Park) and six lanes thereafter before I was 10.  The tolls disappeared sometime after I left the area.

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Finally- GM’s 1964 World Fair Promise May Be Arriving

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I know I am going to date myself (not that kind!), but I still recall with wonder the GM exhibit at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York.  It showed the kind of future I think we all hoped for- and never got.  Where did our idealism go?  However, that’s not the topic for today.

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