Originally Posted by FL 4Motion (Post 3996447)

But you’re not being asked to slice your own throat. Bringing blue collar jobs back here as much as possible from China but building cleaner running manufacturing facilities would help us, and hurt China actually. And reduce their influence and power over our economy.

All of us being a little bit better and conscientious about how we live will have big changes collectively. I’m not suggesting radical measures for any one person. I’ll bring up the red meat thing again since we’ve been debating that one. Imagine just eating red meat only once or twice a week, assuming you’re eating it more frequently than that, hats not a big change personally, but if millions do something like that, it has a huge ripple effect.

Another example would be thermostat settings. In the summer if more folks set their thermostat at 76 deg vs say 68-72 deg, not only would you save $$, we’d also burn less fossil fuel. Win win.

As far as China buying influence in our country and others. I agree with you I don’t like it. It’s why we need to invest in foreign countries not cut back on foreign investment by our state department. Interestingly, a lot of countries that took that Chinese money are now realizing that it came with strings attatched and they’re not to happy about it.

Re Hollywood, I agree with you again but I’m also a capitalist and companies are gonna go where the $$ is and they will suck up to the biggest consumer base. That used to be us, now it’s them.

Originally Posted by Ghostvette (Post 3996497)

I've been bumping the thermostat to temperature ranges I can live with. 74 in summer, 71 in winter. I bought a better system so it doesn't cycle continously. The challenge with adjusting temps is that while we use less energy, the 'energy' companies don't make as much money and they raise the energy rates, which causes other folks to change the temps so their bill isn't so high, which means the energy company doesn't make as much money & the cycle repeats. :shakes head::shakes head:

Originally Posted by -ZS-Carpenter (Post 3996498)

I'm looking at smart thermostats. Not sure which one I want to go with yet.

And light switches. I need to do some research on the smart home stuff and bring the house into the 20s

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Originally Posted by Ghostvette (Post 3996497)

I've been bumping the thermostat to temperature ranges I can live with. 74 in summer, 71 in winter. I bought a better system so it doesn't cycle continously. The challenge with adjusting temps is that while we use less energy, the 'energy' companies don't make as much money and they raise the energy rates, which causes other folks to change the temps so their bill isn't so high, which means the energy company doesn't make as much money & the cycle repeats. :shakes head::shakes head:

Originally Posted by FL 4Motion (Post 3996447)

Imagine just eating red meat only once or twice a week

Originally Posted by Ghostvette (Post 3996499)

The HVAC guys said that the NEST needs 7 wires, my system only had 4. :shakes head: I don't know if that is correct or not. :icon14:

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3996501)

74 summer and 71 winter. :tup: I have one of those smart thermostats. It actually made my gas and electric bills go up because of the cycling. Trying to get the house back to temperature. The units would run for a long time.

Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 3996503)

He's an idiot (or got a commission for selling you that Honeywell - not uncommon). You can install a Nest thermostat with as few as 2 wires in some instances. Both of my Nest thermostats are hooked up with just 4 wires.

Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 3996516)

So I just found out my buddy has been hoarding a mint condition Aerojacket duckbill spoiler in carbon fiber. Not some "Aerojacket-style" knockoff - it's the real OG part.

And it's for sale :happydance: :happydance: :happydance:

Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 3996516)

So I just found out my buddy has been hoarding a mint condition Aerojacket duckbill spoiler in carbon fiber. Not some "Aerojacket-style" knockoff - it's the real OG part.

And it's for sale :happydance: :happydance: :happydance:

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3996523)

Another piece going on top of the pile. :rofl2:

Originally Posted by Spooler (Post 3996525)

Ugg, after working my tail off for the last 2 months I am going to enjoy myself a little bit. I am missing my car. Ugg.. Hope it is done real soon.

Originally Posted by madwi (Post 3996526)

Me too. **** Juan Carlos @Compturbo.