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Yeah iām the guy that looks like that by 8:30 am. Add to that a new cut on my hand and Iām surrounded by tools and walking around cussing looking for a tape measure.
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wrapped in duct tape to keep the blood from dripping onto my work 
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Corner of a blue shop towel and athletic tape. Duct tape leaves a residue.
Iām that guy also. Of course it is more like 0530 for me.
Was making some brackets for the last couple days and thought to my self,
āHappiness is designing and making a part that fits the first time.ā
āUnhappiness is getting involved in designing a quick part and forgetting you left the pump on to fill the water table and it dumps your 10 gallons of reserve on the floorā
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Thatās going to be my new side hustle. I have two generations I am going to buy a couple chargers and do road side charging.
Oh and laugh at them for free
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that will be their safe space assurance. 
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A friend visited us a few weeks ago. He recently bought a plug-in hybrid BMW SUV, which has some merit in my mind. But even at that, he has calculated that the cost when paying for the electric charging kiosks results in more money per mile than if he just bought gas. (That is another of the prime reasons that the misguided Green Energy people want to see gas prices skyrocket. Increased gas prices are not by accident.)
The other silly side of all of this charging: if you are using the āslow chargerā that plugs into 110v, it takes 33 hours to fully charge the 48 AH battery which would only drive the vehicle for 40 miles solely on the battery. I am not sure how fast it charged with the āfast charger.ā By the time he got to our house from Oregon, he was at 0% of available electric power. Basically, he was driving it as a gas engine car. He bought it used and said āWe got a really good deal on it!ā
Not exactly a full endorsement for such a vehicle unless you can āget it for a really good deal.ā
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my wife works for a local automotive group. when the machE mustangs came out they got one and had to demo it so long before they were able to sell it.
one guy decided to take it home one night in the winter. it was fully charged when he left, he lived 20 mile down in the āvalleyā we call it 90 percent downhill. he parked it in a heated garage that night. before he makes it back to work it was telling him to charge the battery. Guess it got tired before it did that nasty 90 percent uphill.
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Hybrids and electric cars do horrible if they need to warm or cool the cabin. That uses lots of electricity when they donāt have the advantage of the belts driving off the engine and the heat from the radiator.
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My doctor bought a Ford Lightning pickup. All was well until he tried to pull his razor with an aluminum trailer 100 miles away to Knoxville. Well, it didnāt make it all the way there without a charge. They have a long way to go to make a work truck, whether it is consumer or commercial.
He traded it in for an F250 7.3 Godzilla. No problem pulling anything now. He agrees with me on the whole diesel thing, too. There are no electrics or any more diesel pickups for me. I know they are well-liked, but they are a total pain in the ass.
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yeah, donāt get me wrong someone wants oneā¦ Pour on it they just have way to many issues in their way to push them.
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I had a 2006 hybrid Toyota Highlander. For city driving, it far surpassed the gas mileage of a gas vehicle of similar size/weight capacity. Highway driving was never better than 24 mpg and often 22 mpg. Anytime I towed anything in the 2500 pound range or more (supposedly it had a 3500 pound towing capacity), the gas mileage dropped to 8 mpg.
I have not owned a diesel but when I was buying my RAM truck, I was told that the diesel is more expensive initially and more expensive long term with maintenance. I suppose if you are hauling things as the general rule vs. the exception, the diesel might have some benefits. Just speculating.
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My last F250 was a diesel, and it blew a head gasket under warranty. They had to take the entire cab off the frame to repair the engine, which would have cost $7000 if it werenāt under warranty. I traded it for a 7.3 Godzilla before they finished, and I love it. By the way, they had it for 18 days before I got pissed off.
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well, my wife works at a ford dealership. just to be honest it is embarrassing for me to tell that. i probably dislike them more than anyone else in world.
my dad had a 85 F150 tuff truck as for beating around it was absolutely useless when it rained that brakes would lock up anytime it rain. everything brake wise was changed on it too.
I owned 3 fords in my short driving lifeā¦ i still have the blister from the last oneā¦
That is why they make different kinds of vehicles.
I tell people all the time i canāt drive a ford i get to many tickets. the copās frown upon me holding a Newpaper up Infront of my face.
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a diesel is a work horse if you donāt work it constantly you are waiting moneyā¦
Unless you like to roll coal and well that is wasting money.
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I know. Pair of pants, pair of shorts, and pair of pliers. Who names this stuff?
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Now, Iām not against man buns. But he was doing the Lordās work. 
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