Infrastructure Bill Includes Pilot Program to Track Your Vehicle

Thank God for the child tax credit. Otherwise nobody would risk having sex.

Cindy Hamilton

Government policies make child-bearing lucrative for some people, no marriage required.

Mine already has a very detailed usage by day and hour online. I can get all sorts of reports and I assume so can anyone else. I agree if they see a big load coming online at a particular time of day they can make assumptions on what it is based on analyzing thousands of other customer use patterns. I don't really give a s*it but I assume if I was doing something illegal I would. These car chargers tend to be the biggest load in the house. If you buy a Tesla, you are probably buying a service upgrade too. I know I did the load calc for my neighbor and his 200a panel is not going to cut it. The charger is another 50a, continuous load in NEC speak and that is not the biggest charger you can get for your home. The 50a at the wall charging is 32 at the car.

We haven't actually seen how the democrats vote on that either. We just see the posturing. There are plenty of democrat millionaires in congress, including the insider trading Speaker.

You would tell by looking at the load and comparing it to the degree days. My PoCo already gives me that data online now. HVAC also cycles. Vehicle chargers are a constant load until the car is charged. Also even a big A/C system is chump change compared to a EV charger and you will still have that AC system. If you drive a lot, I doubt the 5-15 charger could keep up. You get 3 miles per hour of charge on a 5-15 (120/15a) and only 2 miles on the model x. (Tesla web site)

It was a consideration as was all of the incentives to have a big family but smart people figured out it is still chump change, hence much smaller families these days among the intelligent. It bends the curve the wrong way.

A better example of unintended consequences would be the "second home" incentives. That encouraged house flippers and the mess we got in around the turn of the century. If they didn't mind moving they could even shelter their capital gains. (own 2 homes, write off the interest on both and sell the one you live in every couple years for free).

I can't imagine what a huge change this would be. My house is on the same underground supply as maybe 30 others. When does the utility replace the wiring to allow for the chargers? Who pays? Does it allow for two or three cars/family? I'm in a farming area. Irrigation wells are on interruptible power. The utility shuts them down during the day and restarts them at night as their load permits.

If congress were treated like Martha Stewart was half of them would be in jail.

Nobody wants to talk about the impact on the grid from these cars but a service upgrade to your house will be pretty expensive if you have underground service. The overhead drop belongs to the PoCo but the customer generally owns a service lateral underground. Even though they are in conduit, the chance of pulling a 4/0 aluminum Service Conductor triplex and pulling in a 4/0 copper is nil. Every one I have ever seen installed were pulled as they laid the pipe. (a NEC violation but it wasn't my job). The pull would be so bad that instead of pulling back the excess, they just cut it off and they always err on the long side, sometimes as much as 25-30 feet based on the triplex I see in the dumpsters. It is good for scrappers tho. They are like sparrows on horse s*it when the crews leave and they can dumpster dive the aluminum. It is worth the time to strip 4/0 to get the "clean" price.

They should be watering at night anyway. It is the law here, even for residential. The water requirement is less because of evaporation.

Boiled frog syndrome

Pennsylvania has a high gasoline tax, one of the most in America, it is to go to keeping up our roads, this is hitting us in two ways, the gas tax should be removed if the infrastructure bill it going to take care of our roads and bridges, ect.