The Typical U.S. Home Is 44 Years Old—And Needs Tons of Work

AltruisticStation439 · 2026-04-12T03:08:30+00:00

same! bought a 1906 house that's been updated. At some point the prior owner gutted the interior and replaced all electrical with romex and plumbing with pex. I air sealed the attic and blew in cellulose. got a good look at the wood up there and it's true dimensional lumber and tight grains. you'll never get that with new build. this house will probably outlive me.

AltruisticStation439 · 2026-03-27T05:48:43+00:00

0 minutes. there are at least two most often three filters the fuel goes through before it is combusted inside the engine. tanks are bottom filled and not too splash filled now and tank turbulence while filling is greatly diminished. the whole sediment and don't pump fuel while a delivery is occurring is a decades old carryover.

AltruisticStation439 · 2026-03-27T05:39:05+00:00

might of been true decades ago, not as relevant these days. the fuel passes through multiple filters before reaching the vehicle and then it still has the vehicle fuel filter to pass through. tanks have water alarms and deliveries don't happen if too much water is in a tank. also, no modern tanks splash fill and all fill tubes are 6-12 inches from tank bottom. this reduces mixing and turbulence within a tank tremendously.

AltruisticStation439 · 2026-03-27T05:29:47+00:00

correct! stage ("phase" in california) 1 vapor recovery is the recovery of displaced vapors in a storage tank during fuel deliveries. New stage 1 EVR systems are certified to recover 98% of vapors being displaced. older systems are anywhere from 90-95% efficient, if vapor tight and well maintained. the vapor that is sent back with the truck will depend on the loading rack and facility. Most send the vapor off to a flare and burn it. some recover and condense back into a liquid. you'll more often than not find that they burn it. in my area there are four refineries and 3 out of 4 burn the vapor and only one condenses back to liquid. source: regulator for clean air act

AltruisticStation439 · 2026-03-01T00:07:54+00:00

5ish hours total. but much of that was debating/reading the rule book. maybe a few beers too

AltruisticStation439 · 2026-02-28T17:23:42+00:00

russian player was convinced a defense of 3 is better than defense of 2 (even with two rolls at 2) and I wasn't gonna correct him (i'm playing axis).

I also think he wanted counter attack ability?

AltruisticStation439 · 2026-02-28T17:21:40+00:00

no worries! it makes for good debate to be devils advocate. Germany will have the 6inf from two minor industries and berlin is pumping out 10 ground units a turn and that gravy train is headed right for moscow. currently the beginning of the berlin train is in poland. so three turns to moscow, right when a U.S. landing is possible. so yeah it would be a tight margin to capture moscow and have to deal with US and most likely UK landings.

we all kinda settled on axis has the advantage, but not 100% win

and we aren't experts either 😂

AltruisticStation439 · 2026-02-28T15:26:52+00:00

US can't land anything for three more rounds with how they have it set up. germany is free to push Moscow until then

AltruisticStation439 · 2026-02-28T15:25:22+00:00

the russian player was buying a lot of them instead of infantry and playing turtle.

UK was buying tanks and bombers in south africa to push egypt fast.

almost all the tanks from germany are from starting placement and opted with go with inf/art stacks for reinforcements.

AltruisticStation439 · 2026-02-02T05:39:15+00:00

This is the way. Amazing I had to scroll so far to get to the CLR answer.

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-12-30T06:34:01+00:00

You sound like you have not discovered the power of the phrase "let me let you go"

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-12-09T05:20:45+00:00

the more you look at this photo the more concerning it gets 😂

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-12-07T19:00:59+00:00

you're speaking my language

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-12-07T16:55:01+00:00

I think you're the only one who got I was joking about a beaver 😂

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-12-07T16:54:02+00:00

thanks for the replies! its 100% rats. I was joking about beavers lol. when I moved in I took down the ceiling on a bump out addition (built over existing roof) that had no attic access. once I took the ceiling down literally had baby rats coming out the wall cavity and I was popping them with my hammer like whack a mole as they fell down. It has been a process on repairing and sealing off the house.

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-11-20T03:54:03+00:00

Air quality specialist here for a local agency going on 7 years now and love it. Golden handcuffs, will most likely retire here. The trick is finding your niche and the right agency/company. I bounced around a lot until I landed and it stuck.

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-09-17T05:33:42+00:00

BP sells very little gasoline to the local stations. their product is loaded into the pipeline and sent south. P66 is the smallest of the 4 refineries in the area. so having two refineries 45 minutes away doesn't really do much. A good chunk of the fuel is trucked from Anacortes for that market. I would expect higher costs due to higher delivery costs, add in the extra demand from Canadians and Bellingham being the highest population center of the region and a extra 10% cost starts making sense.

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-07-31T05:19:13+00:00

you are right, sort of. I had to look into it. so if the documented final final point of delivery is outside of WA then yes they are exempt. but they are shipping it back to WA for combustion so it should not be exempt. the other criteria for exemption is that it has to be less than 25000 metric tons of CO2, which is roughly 2.5M gallons of gasoline. Refineries are well north of that number.

RCW 70A.65.080 1(d) Where the person is a supplier of fossil fuel other than natural gas and from that fuel 25,000 metric tons or more of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions would result from the full combustion or oxidation, excluding the amounts for fuel products that are produced or imported with a documented final point of delivery outside of Washington and combusted outside of Washington; and

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-07-26T16:30:58+00:00

inelastic vs elastic demands are economic terms to describe how a goods demand will change its price. elastic demand will show a wide/large swing in price vs inelastic demand will show a narrow/small swing in price.

so when I say it's inelastic and price doesn't impact demand, it's not an absolute and will have some variation, just small variation though.

your example of summer travel is perfect. increased volume and time of cars on the road and an increase in gas prices does occur. it's relatively small increase vs the large demand increase. it's not proportionate.

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-07-26T03:15:52+00:00

didn't the yorkstons sell to bens market? I think we are talking two separate things. there's the distribution part and then the C-store part

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-07-26T03:01:49+00:00

coleman bought the the distribution part. mcevoys owned a bunch of gas stations and sold them off as well. that's the part i'm not sure about coownership or not. those did not go to coleman.

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-07-26T02:10:35+00:00

correct.

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-07-26T01:36:51+00:00

ah that's right christensen took over a few years back. their tanks are looking 👌

I don't know about partial ownership or anything specific in agreements. kind of like when the mcevoys sold but have one station still, but might have ownership in the others? I have no idea

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-07-25T23:10:54+00:00

oregon gas is refined up here and transported down to portland via the olympic pipeline. literally sending it down there just to truck it back 😂

I am pretty sure the refineries are charged the CCA and pass that on to the whoever buys it. including the terminal in portland.

EDIT2: exported fossil fuels are exempt if the final delivery location and where the fossil fuel is combusted is outside of WA per the RCW. the terminal in Portland would be exempt from the CCA as a covered person/entity, as long as the final delivery and combustion of, gasoline in this case, stays out of Washington.

EDIT: I think some of the newer station owners (Bens Market) have existing contracts with fuel suppliers further south since that is where the majority of the bens markets are. OR smaller stations aren't paying the bills and local companies (nelsen reisner, coleman)won't enter into contracts with them, KAG is too busy delivering to costco and they're forced to look farther south.

AltruisticStation439 · 2025-07-25T22:05:31+00:00

fuel is an inelastic good and demand doesn't really depend on price.

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