Palo Alto looks to require electric vehicle circuitry in new homes

San Jose Mercury News ^ | 9/28/13 | Jason Green

[Trailerpark Badass]

True, but contractor licensing/home inspectors/etc make buyers feel they don't need to due their own due diligence.

We'll rely on government, and we know how well they do everything.

I owned restaurants, and if you think it was the health inspector that kept my food safe, well, it wasn't.

And of course, government isn't the only entity which can establish and enforce quality standards for an industry.

[az_gila]

Ever notice how contractors just LOOOOOVE engineers looking over their shoulders? ;-)

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Yes, but when I checked the drawings when we added a second story to our house and found a support that was marked as 4x4 on one floor and 4x6 on another floor, the contractor let me carry on and correct the other dozen mistakes on his drawings...:^)

Now workers reading the drawings was another thing. I had to correct the plumbers chalk marks for the rough plumbing since he held the drawings upside down. He even said, that's a dumb location for the upstairs hall...:^)

[USMCPOP]

Yeah, Dave, we’d like to have a Dynasty welder. But there’s no real advantage in a home shop. Our entire stable of welders cost less than $4,000. I paid $850. for the Sync 250 and it is clean.

The young one got stuck on an old HAAS mini type mill on his first machining job. Did real well and was the first person to really use it. It’s the man, not the machine, that makes a machinist. Take that to the bank in thousandths of an inch.

[NVDave]

You practically stole that Sync 250. ;-)

[MasterGunner01]

California hasn't built any new power plants in 30+ years and has been shutting down plants at aren't PC enough for the Greenies. California is buying much of its electricity from surrounding states. I'd recommend the surrounding suppliers triple their exported electricity costs to California and bring them face-to-face with reality. Karma sucks governor Moonbeam and your communist Sacramento legislature.

[USMCPOP]

Well, according to Dave Barry:

“But Edison’s greatest achievement came in 1879 when he
invented the electric company. Edison’s design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit: the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then immediately gets the electricity back through another wire, then (this is the brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again.

This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact, the last year any new electricity was generated was 1937.”