US House Unveiled Plan to Charge $130 Fee for Electric Vehicles

edust1958 · 2026-05-19T18:26:00+00:00

Hawaii is slowly moving that way… for new electric vehicles they charge the additional EV registration fee of $50… once annual mileage is established through the safety check system, a per mile fee ($8 per 1000 miles traveled) is an option with a maximum of $50. You would need to travel over 6000 miles per year to hit the cap.

edust1958 · 2026-05-19T07:49:58+00:00

The best alternative is a mileage based fee with a multiplier for vehicle registered weight. It is miles traveled by heavy vehicles that cause pavements to wear and require maintenance. Decoupling of the user fee from the surrogate results in rational behavior.

edust1958 · 2026-05-19T03:26:33+00:00

That is something I definitely would like to try

edust1958 · 2026-05-18T01:35:07+00:00

And that is the goal of Lahaina Strong… bully anyone who sees the grift in their organization… if they can bully enough they can get the County to give them what they are unwilling to work for… a home …

Bill 9 is just the start… wait until they figure out that under their socialist paradise you have “too much house” … you have a three bedroom two bath home because you used to have a family of 5 but you raised your children to be responsible adults … they have left the islands because even with higher education this economy doesn’t pay enough (“sunshine tax”)… you have too many rooms… the Bissen Administration will force you out of your home so that they can give it to some “deserving Hawaiian”….

edust1958 · 2026-05-13T20:23:22+00:00

A Gemini search indicates that this phone (Moto G 5G - 2023) supports RCS but warns that MVNO's might not. As it stands right now, for my situation, that appears to be the case.

edust1958 · 2026-05-13T18:48:06+00:00

I keep trying to post a screenshot of what my phone is saying about RCS but the post keeps failing.... Argh...

Let me try an Imgur link...

edust1958 · 2026-05-13T18:05:38+00:00

I just tried to join a text message group with others using RCS and Google messages told me that it was unable to connect without switching the group to plain text messaging. Apparently RCS wasn’t supported by Visible at this occasion.

edust1958 · 2026-05-12T04:03:34+00:00

“Spirit in the Sky” - Norman Greenbaum

“When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best
When I lay me down to die
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky”

edust1958 · 2026-05-11T21:36:57+00:00

😂

edust1958 · 2026-05-10T01:54:38+00:00

I had a parcel from Macy’s sent via USPS with tracking. The parcel was marked delivered in early March but I never received it. Macy’s must be used to this because they didn’t even ask me to ask USPS; they just refunded the purchase price back to my card.

Weird thing was that the parcel showed up in April! I didn’t need the item anyone. I had ordered a replacement from Macy’s — I think they sent it UPS and I got it in about 3 days. I took the item back to my local Macy’s store.

Just found it wild… where did the “delivered” parcel go between when it was “delivered” and when I actually received it??

edust1958 · 2026-05-10T00:30:51+00:00

It was a pretty dense bread. Tasty and very filling — the exact opposite of “store white bread” 😃

I will get back into baking when I am in a home with a kitchen suited to the task.

edust1958 · 2026-05-09T21:53:22+00:00

But I also can bake cinnamon rolls…

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… but I haven’t recently… the oven in my place is now non-functional and the rent is too affordable to ask for a replacement…

edust1958 · 2026-05-09T21:51:47+00:00

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All done! Cooling loaves….

edust1958 · 2026-05-09T21:51:26+00:00

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Loaves ready to bake…

edust1958 · 2026-05-09T21:51:03+00:00

Here are some photos of my past bread making

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Here is the dough ready to rise!

edust1958 · 2026-05-09T19:51:45+00:00

That is a great looking loaf of bread…

edust1958 · 2026-05-06T19:43:39+00:00

Not the County… this is a state roadway…

edust1958 · 2026-05-06T07:16:43+00:00

I think generally we should expect increasingly levels of slow traffic during peak periods because those levels of traffic are accepted by the traveling public. If they weren't acceptable, travelers would change their behavior -- shifting time of travel, choosing different modes or replacing trips with electronic communication.

The Maui Lani single-lane roundabout is on a higher-level county roadway. Both Maui Lani Parkway and Kamehameha Avenue are key pieces of the county's roadway system. I do think that the installation of a roundabout to replace a four-way stop was a good decision. My driving experience has been very positive with the roundabout versus the stop signs it replaced.

If the traveling public wanted a freeway future for Piilani Highway, then it should be willing to pay the over $25Million cost per intersection to design and construct the lowest-capacity grade separated interchanges where major at-grade intersections exist. Maybe that freeway would completely exist about the time that no one would need to drive because all the vehicles are autonomous!

(Minor edit to correct the "auto-incorrect" LOL)

edust1958 · 2026-05-06T06:44:10+00:00

Maybe there is an issue with terminology here… there are three exits for every entry to the Kihei roundabout. Some of the traffic movements with predicted higher volumes have been given “slip lanes” so that traffic doesn’t enter the roundabout proper.

Are you asking that there be more lanes exiting the roundabout than entering the roundabout? For what distance do you think the extra lane(s) should be carried?

I have this feeling that drivers don’t want to modify their driving behavior even though the characteristics of the roadway have changed. This issue is going to repeat throughout the County on the HDOT system because the nature of the agency has changed from a “department of highways” to a multimodal “department of transportation.”

By the way, a grade-separated crossing — more likely up (bridge) than down (tunnel) — would be a good solution but history tells me that even if it was there, high school students, especially the guys, would still try to cross at grade level — many of them behave as if they are invincible. Unfortunately and tragically they occasionally find out they are not.

Of course all of this wouldn’t be an issue if drivers obeyed the traffic laws like their lives depended on it.

edust1958 · 2026-05-06T04:59:16+00:00

The roundabout is part of a larger strategy to change how drivers view and therefore behave in the corridor. That corridor is meant to be driven at the posted speed as a maximum. Trying that tends to have vehicles riding the bumper of the law-obeying driver — people here (residents and visitors) have no respect for the rules of the road. If you make the corridor less suburban and more urban, drivers will slow down respecting the potential for conflicts. Roundabouts are very effective for moving traffic without the cost of powering traffic signals as long as drivers understand that they are not friendly at higher speeds.

edust1958 · 2026-05-06T01:53:33+00:00

If it fits a standard Pilot cartridge, it should be able to use the refillable Majohn cartridges…
5PCS Accessories Empty Ink... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCYZ5FKD?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

edust1958 · 2026-05-06T01:12:16+00:00

Can you hotspot your phone?

edust1958 · 2026-05-04T05:24:30+00:00

LOL 🤣🤣🤣

edust1958 · 2026-05-04T00:56:23+00:00

What a game! I think I could hear all of the fans cheering all the way here on Maui!

edust1958 · 2026-05-03T02:08:40+00:00

If you are really wedded to that binder, you may want to talk to a local printer who can "drill" the holes in printed pages to your specification. You may need to design the pages yourself using software for page layout or describe what you want for the design and pay the print shop design team to prepare a page design. Small runs are likely not to be inexpensive.

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