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Bruce » 01 Jul 2023, 12:37 pm » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 12:37 pm

Last month it was time to dig out the gas weed eater.

Cord pulled off, in my hand.

I said I’ll get it fixed, honey.

She says we’ve had that damned thing fifteen years.  You will go buy a new one, today and toss that one.

She was right, again.

Oh my goodness the new $300 electric rechargeable is better.  No gas, no mixing, no maintenance, quiet, eats up everything, even winds it’s own line and bumps itself.

Cheaper, than the old one as well.

If electric cars are this much better I want one.

         yea been there done that. Hope it lasts you guys more then two years... Mine did'nt
 

sootedupCyndi » 01 Jul 2023, 10:43 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 10:43 am

It is connected to the school budget.
but i'm wondering who just decided to tack on more house value.
I doubt If i sold it- i'd get no more then last year. for example.
This isn't Florida where there is a high demand for homes.

Right now, in Florida, real estate is absolutely on fire. You should move there. The cost of living is much lower and taxes are some of the lowest in the nation- real estate AND no personal income tax to pay either.

sootedupCyndi » 01 Jul 2023, 12:44 pm » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 12:44 pm

         yea been there done that. Hope it lasts you guys more then two years... Mine did'nt

At Lowe’s , there was this really sharp kid that helped me buy the weed eater, which at $300 was the best one in the store, with the most gadgets. A decent one was $200 and a cheapie only $100.

The kid said your $300 weed eater uses a $250 battery if it’s out of the three year warranty.

But he said, look at this wall full of power toys for $300 that all use that same battery.  Buy one every year or two until your garage is full, and you’ll have lots of batteries.

They had chainsaws, pole saws, hedge trimmers, leaf blowers, power washers, air compressors, even a lawnmower.

In ten years there won’t be any gas power toys, any more than there are electric power toys with cords today.

 
 

The Biden Economy is desperate for lithium products


from China. America cannot function without China.

Bruce » 01 Jul 2023, 1:24 pm » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 1:24 pm

At Lowe’s , there was this really sharp kid that helped me buy the weed eater, which at $300 was the best one in the store, with the most gadgets. A decent one was $200 and a cheapie only $100.

The kid said your $300 weed eater uses a $250 battery if it’s out of the three year warranty.

But he said, look at this wall full of power toys for $300 that all use that same battery.  Buy one every year or two until your garage is full, and you’ll have lots of batteries.

They had chainsaws, pole saws, hedge trimmers, leaf blowers, power washers, paint sprayers, air compressors, even a lawnmower.

In ten years there won’t be any gas power toys, any more than there are electric power toys with cords today.

 
 

Sumela » 01 Jul 2023, 1:27 pm » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 1:27 pm

The Biden Economy is desperate for lithium products

from China. America cannot function without China.

I didn’t know, that no matter what electric gadget takes a lithium battery, that battery is made from a whole bunch of these little 18x65 batteries in a series.

You can buy a carload of them for less than $2 each:


 
Ablnd the first 18x65 flashlight you buy, for less than $10, you’ll throw all your other flashlights away or give them to somebody you don’t like very much.

Uncle Joe has reserved billions upon billions of dollars to loan to Ford, GM, and other American industries to set up new battery plants here to make those little batteries.

The old ones recycle way over 90%, so in not many years it will be like car batteries are today, virtually all of them made out of old ones.

Nobody will force you to buy these gadgets, any more than you tossed all your corded drills after good lithium ones came out.