Ya Think?

Image courtesy of Zero Hedge.

@Rothmus

This is bad, right?

Zero hedge has an article up saying the Secretary of Transportation is thinking about suspenfing the Federal gas Tax.

Which sounds good on the surface but won’t really affect the price of gas that much in some states like California, Washington and Illinois.

All of which add taxes over fifty cents a gallon.

Also, I don’t know when that snapshot of gas prices was taken but there are places in California where gas is over $8 a gallon and I have seen Diesel prices over $7 a gallon here in Washington state up around Seattle within the last couple of weeks.

I personally paid $6.49 a gallon here in Vancouverstan Washington, putting some Diesel on my Brother’s 97 F-250 Super Duty that I had to borrow for a few days two weeks ago while I had my truck in the shop.

Try As I Might, I Just Can’t Justify It

It’s cute as hell and is an actual running gas engine, that isn’t a whole lot bigger than your hand.

I saw this yesterday and when I looked, I saw prices anywhere from $450 to $700.

When I looked again today, the cheapest I saw was $550.

It’s obviously a very cool toy but you could actually use it to pump water with or power up some LED lights when you went camping and such as a novelty.

You would certainly be the only one around who had such a thing.

This guy has a very cool set up powering some lights and a tiny Jeweler’s Lathe with it in his shop.

Insanity

I don’t know who this Thomas is but he needs to have his fingers duct taped together.

I sent this to my boy who is a journeyman electrician and he said it was a fire waiting to happen.

It looks to me like there is enough extra wire and junction boxes there to wire a two bedroom house.

When I stopped the video and started counting, I see at least 16 freaking junction boxes!