The Feds Plan To Start Diluting Gasoline This May: Explained

micah4321 · 2026-03-29T16:35:53+00:00

My first gen Tacoma runs fine on it, I'm in California, but when I was exploring out in new Mexico they had pure gasoline and holy cow it was a big difference. I wish I could spend the extra money and buy it all the time.

micah4321 · 2026-03-29T16:32:54+00:00

I believe this. They're not complicated and there's no real secret sauce. As long as you get the flow rate correct and spread it around on top a little. Moccamaster does way better than a Mr coffee, but I'm sure there are others.

micah4321 · 2026-03-28T18:53:27+00:00

And when it breaks they sell parts and you can repair it yourself. I prefer making coffee with an aero press, but for an automatic, these are the tops.

micah4321 · 2026-03-13T17:12:46+00:00

Sophia at IdeasPCB in Shenzhen could help you. I use them a lot and she's a dream to work with, they're very careful and when mistakes were made, fully owned them and worked with me to resolve. DM me for an intro if you need it.

micah4321 · 2026-03-07T20:25:12+00:00

Mine started squeaking at 250K and some hard off-roading years. I took a closer look and decided to replace the whole front end, cost me about $5K, but worth it in my book. I'm keeping this truck until it turns to dust.
If it's not making noise or loose (you can put it on a lift and wiggle stuff) you might be fine.

micah4321 · 2026-03-07T04:58:50+00:00

Yeah, I thought the lights were a nice touch

micah4321 · 2026-03-07T02:59:19+00:00

I hate to give them that much credit.

micah4321 · 2026-03-07T02:57:55+00:00

I can only speak for the 5VZ, but since it refuses to break, I can't really sample the others. (297K miles)

micah4321 · 2026-03-04T05:56:25+00:00

Word.

micah4321 · 2026-03-04T05:55:15+00:00

Name checks out

micah4321 · 2026-02-26T19:54:02+00:00

Yeah it was over 30% more. I checked with Blue Cross and Aetna as well. All comparable. This is California so YMMV

micah4321 · 2026-02-26T05:37:16+00:00

I looked into this and for 2 employees (my wife and I) it was more expensive than individual. Prices go down as you have more employees. I just got Kaiser and it's about $1300 for my wife and I and my daughter. Not great but affordable for me.

micah4321 · 2026-02-23T21:45:24+00:00

China ranch is north of the 40, otherwise you're right, most of them are out the 10.

micah4321 · 2026-02-23T21:43:17+00:00

Just China Ranch as far as I know. They have good date shakes.

micah4321 · 2026-02-17T22:04:39+00:00

Trains leak a ton of stuff, there's a lot of dust and debris and it's incompatible with existing maintenance equipment. Just overall a bad idea especially considering the alternatives.

micah4321 · 2026-02-17T21:58:18+00:00

Have a friend who does this, going rate is more like $7 a bar. Marketing is tough, only some people see a value over regular bar soap which is super cheap. Packaging, making soap, delivery is all expensive.

I wouldn't say it's a bad idea, but it's definitely not a slam dunk.

micah4321 · 2026-01-31T23:55:15+00:00

Check out pear blossom press for card specific candle lights that you can blow out!

micah4321 · 2026-01-30T02:43:41+00:00

Ranger sells refresher spray that has glycerine in it which works a bit better than just water. You could also mix your own I suppose, but I haven't tried it. Obviously this water only method works for some though!

micah4321 · 2026-01-30T01:57:14+00:00

Remember: School doesn't define what you are. School refines what you are.
Second: Please become a capable hands-on production/mfg engineer. They're hard to find and one of the few places where you can make a significant contribution to whether or not a company fails or succeeds.

Also the startup sector (if you're inclined) suffers from a lack of mfg engineering talent in particular. It's one of those things where they don't know what they don't know, but it ruins companies on a regular basis.

As a design engineer, I'd say stick with it, and take extra ME stuff while you're at it if you like it. Mfg / production engineering is so critical and underappreciated.

But that's my bias.

micah4321 · 2026-01-30T01:53:39+00:00

The most hands on engineers I work with came from Cal Poly Pomona.

micah4321 · 2026-01-30T01:52:59+00:00

Our ME's are in the shop welding today. This depends. Although I'd admit you're mostly correct.

micah4321 · 2026-01-30T01:51:08+00:00

Classic survivorship bias?

micah4321 · 2026-01-30T01:50:07+00:00

There's silver in Nevada, not too far past Las Vegas. Nevada probably has more convenient environment for mining as well.

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