OceanMan

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Back from the match… holy hell that was fun. Also, just realized I forgot the “low” for “Eastern Low Block” in the thread title. That’s on me guys

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You were in the stadium? That’s awesome I can’t imagine a much better sports experience

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So I’m half retarted but has anyone done the math on electricity taxes to charge your vehicle vs gas taxes?

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Supercharger is 7% sales tax in LA while gas tax is $0.20/gallon. So a 20 gallon tank would be $4 in tax.

The superchargers in LA are usually $0.37/kwh, so the 7% tax is roughly 5% of that cost. If gas is an average of $4/gal, the $0.20 tax would also be 5% of the cost, and would obviously increase as gas prices decrease (10% of the cost at $2/gal). A “fill up” for 60kWh would be about $1.25 compared to $4 for a 20 gallon tank.

Because electric are so much more efficient, even though they would pay a similar rate per energy unit, they consume less energy units and thus pay less tax at the “pump”. Charging at home is much cheaper more like $.10-.15/kWh

Now if we just look at the hybrid/electric fee relative to the gas tax - For the $120/year full electric fee, at $.20/gallon that assumes 600 gallons of fuel you could have bought. At 20 mi/gallon that assumes 12,000 miles/year driven. Just rough math to show this tax pretty much would offset an average drivers gas tax, before considering sales tax on electricity purchases.

Yes. I wouldn’t get shite done and wouldn’t get reelected, but the only way I would ever agree to the office is to remain ethical. Not sure how I ever got elected in this scenario as I would need to have promised nothing to anyone in order to reduce pressure.

That was awesome. I tuned in right before the end of the first half and was like this one is going to be good. Did not disappoint. It was a battle

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Further, homestead exemption does not qualify for rental property, so a person who rents a $150,000 valued house is paying MORE than the guy who owner occupies the same value house.

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But they have access to their cash and/or not paying interest if they borrowed cash. And the owner of the rented property is actually the one paying more, as rent is market based and not perfectly correlated with variations in ownership expenses like they would be if they owned it.

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hurr durr

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Hurr durr indeed

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We have a rough idea of what we want to do.

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I've done many international trips where I booked the airbnb while on the flight overseas

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We got different definitions of “rough idea” :lol:

That’s not really true. Getting noticed and being developed are basically everything in baseball, and it clearly worked out for all of those guys. Particularly with transfers. You got one more year to make a draft push, where you goes matters. It’s pitching, you will get playing time if you are good enough

But of course, money also matters

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Wait till American football fans hear about the line of scrimmage

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Established by the referees after every single play so everyone knows where it is and lines up on it at the start of the next - a play cannot happen if the offense is offside. It is not established relative to another player during a live play, and whether it is actually a penalty depends on other actions.

If you are seriously trying to equate these two concepts, you should save your smug replies. It isn’t the same concept at all. The sports are completely different, primarily because football has defined possessions and set plays that begin at the LOS that is clearly marked and spotted by the ref. And even given that everyone knows about it, they aren’t using technology to see if someone’s toe or finger is on that line at the start of the play because it would make an immaterial difference.

The purpose of the penalty in soccer is to prevent an advantage. The equivalent in football would be not allowing a receiver to get past the defender (or second to last one) before the QB throws it. I suppose that could be an interesting concept and could potentially be just as fun to watch, but if the defense decided to sell out and bring the safety on a delayed rush, and there was a penalty on the receiver because of a toe being too far when the ball is thrown, even though his position hasn’t changed and still needs to beat his defender and complete the catch, it would seem excessively hard to score, and more importantly, points would come off the board….and to my point you responded to, people would be complaining. Just like people from Qatar, Iran, Colombia and others have been about certain WC plays.

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Totally, it’s just like American football calling touchdowns when the ball barely breaks the plane. It’s so bad for the sport to use technology on plays with objective parameters, getting it right is so bad for interest here

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The evolution of officiating in American football has made the game unbearable. There are lots of similarities in today’s soccer. Some things are way too over regulated while others are like oh well shite happens.

Did not expect to see cheap booze that mixes well, just add people, in the OP.

I’m at Izzo’s now, didn’t even look open. This place used to be awesome but there is hardly anyone here. They don’t sell beer anymore either apparently. Still much better than chipotle