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If "Uncle Joe" were really Uncle Joe I figure America would look much different by this point & it doesn't look much different to me.

I have learned that when a market figures it can bilk some extra bucks and figures that people can afford to pay it and will pay it that's what it tends to do. Only a real Uncle Joe could set the price of gasoline by fiat and I don't think this one is that.

We talked about that in Economics 101. Economic forces determine supply and demand and prices. Everybody naturally charges what they can get. One of the few rational things that government does here is antitrust law.

No, but his team is doing a lot to discourage gasoline and NG production. California too, with gas near $7 a gallon.

The price of gas doesn't bother me (short commute, engineer's income) but I feel sorry for low-wage workers with long commutes, or people who need a pickup truck to make their living.

We love the Saturday farmers' market, but the sellers have to get up before dawn and drive 100 miles each way to sell us carrots.

It's a scheme to push people into EV, especially low end EV. I have many people asking about my Leaf, mainly for a second short commune car.

I think that's true for CalTran network also. Plugshare is pulling data from the machines. So, it's correctly showing that the chargers are up and running. But ... And why didn't they shut down the machines in unaccessable rest area?

Kingsburg Rest stop (0/2) South bound complete blockage, no access Fresno Maintainence Stations (0/4) All four stations power cables are gone Frazer Rest Stop (1/4) Two stations had communication problem. One station lock in payment option One station working CA58/184 (0/2) One station had communication problem One station with missing ChaDeMo power cable Many sites with only one working charger.

I am going to write to CalTran again . They were great at bring them up, but not keeping them up, only after a year or so. They are not technical engineers.

It's funnier to watch someone post drivel in newsgroups while being completely phobic about having an actual conversation with someone who can challenge him and show him all his logical missteps. Yeah, hilarious. He tries to win arguments by totting out debating techniques used by 6 year olds, calling people funny names.

Well, it's funny when it isn't so bad as to be pathetic.

Because it Caltran. It's not like they understand anything about BEV charging or care about it.

I think you and your Leaf are a good match.

Thank you for your expressed concern and understanding. As you are well aware, EV charging is a mission critical logistic issue. Deplotment of transport readiness must be carefully planned. We believe that it is critical and essential to create a commission to address and to coordinate the important issues across multiple departments.

Major issues are: equipment uptime managements and planned inaccessiblities. Furthermore, interconnectiblity of sites with limited resources.

But we are certainly doing better than the Russian military.

\I am unfortunately limited to Aldis products, which their business model results in their limiting selections to their own brand

I will Will try some of your suggestions but will order by mail