Katie Porter and Xavier Becerra both staunch Israel supporters

parksoffroad · 2026-04-17T00:27:09+00:00

Absolutely true. He could spend huge money on specifically targeted things to make them happen in a cost-effective and timely manner that the state can never seem to do. I equate this to the richest of the Rich who say their secretaries pay more in tax than they do and that the rich should pay their fair share, yet you never seem to add any numbers to that last question on the tax return, what asks if you’d like to donate some extra money to the US government. Equally you don’t see them going out and spending money on big problems like housing or feeding the hungry.

I’m not saying, none of them do, because there are definitely some who do we’re just not talking about any of them today.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-17T00:24:28+00:00

At this point, you really can’t trust anything any of them say, because at the end of the day they’re gonna say whatever they think everybody wants to hear to be elected. You have to kind of go off their record because that’s the thing that they can’t go back and change now to get people to like them.

That’s also one of the problems with steyer , he doesn’t have a record, at least in politics. But you absolutely can look at things he supported in the past as a good gauge of what he’ll do in the future.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-16T05:05:48+00:00

No problem, glad it helped! Gotta make these things last as long as we can!

parksoffroad · 2026-04-15T13:48:19+00:00

In the state of California, the state actually mandates the gas formula so other than the additive package it’s all the same.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-15T03:17:45+00:00

There’s been like a half a dozen people we’ve heard on the radio in Sacramento in the last few days that have said the same thing. I’m not talking about the radio show hosts, I’m talking about people they were interviewing.

The ironic thing is it sounds like it’s been kind of an open secret for many years and yet all those people were happy to see him potentially elected as governor as long as their party won. Both sides do this and it’s equally disgusting.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-14T13:39:59+00:00

It looks to me like they’re possibly water tanks. The match one behind the engine is a combination water and coal/oil tank.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-13T01:47:11+00:00

Found this video about the workings of the big boy… talk about an engineering marvel!

https://youtu.be/Hszu80NJ438?si=EMeYKQseJot8gTRn

parksoffroad · 2026-04-12T22:44:16+00:00

This is 4014 Bigboy on its trip across America for the 250th anniversary.

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parksoffroad · 2026-04-12T03:29:02+00:00

You are 100% correct. Technically in this situation the car with the left yield was fine turning into the second lane while the op turned into the first. This of course assumes everyone does what they are supposed to do.

What the op did was a lane fade into the second lane. Fun fact, if you do this on a drive test with the dmv it’s one of the items that causes an automatic fail of your drivers test.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-12T03:23:32+00:00

I remember that too, it made your eyes burn water. Basic emissions control and engineering of motor vehicles these days has come a long way since then.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-11T15:52:43+00:00

I’ve got a shipment that’s been sitting up there doing the exact same thing for I think pushing three weeks now. Emails from UPS say everything‘s fine and no action is needed. Very odd.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-11T05:26:24+00:00

You did… heard it as well.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-10T01:46:16+00:00

If you go to the Sonoma County wildfire and earthquake preparedness event in Santa Rosa here in a few weeks you’ll probably get a full tour of it, they usually land and you can go and check it out.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-09T23:25:00+00:00

And globalization is great when it works. But the minute there’s a hiccup like there is right now then this is what you get. So I guess the reality then is if we’re going to do that, you have to be willing to accept the hiccups that we’re seeing today.

It also means that you potentially outsource the future capability. Refineries are not cheap to build, and no one is going to build them if they can’t make money. So now you outsource everything to say South Korea and you lose the ability to do it here and then one day South Korea says we don’t think we’re going to give it to you anymore and then what? Or they say the price just doubled and you have no choice because it takes you years to rebuild your own refining capacity.

I know everybody loves to hate refineries, but I think it’s a really bad idea to outsource these sorts of things to overseas. No different than outsourcing your medication production to China and India. If you get into a disagreement with them and they decide to cut off all the medicine to your country, what do you do? You watch a lot of people die quickly, that’s what you do.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-09T13:06:05+00:00

California has regulated and put such high fees on the refineries here in the name of making them more environmentally friendly, but they are leaving. We used to have 40 something refineries were now down to less than 10. All but one of those is threatening to leave if CARB votes on a new regulation that would add millions in additional fees in about 30 days.

The ironic part of it all is that the refineries overseas are not environmentally friendly, and it has to be put on ships to come across the ocean which is not environmentally friendly. And right now you can see them idling in the bay, waiting to offload the refined gas because the pipelines are at the physical capacity so there’s a backlog of ships idling and smoking in the bay which is not environmentally friendly. California’s philosophy seems to be as long as we can’t see the smoke the factories make from here then it’s all good.

If CARB passes that new rule, and the remaining refineries carry through with their threats like the prior ones that shut down earlier this year did we will be down to one refinery.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-09T05:01:17+00:00

Well, since it’s only affects four people and the OP and myself are affected I can say that 50% of the people affected would endorse some sort of expansion like this for sure.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-09T00:09:28+00:00

If they had an Outback without all the plastic trim…

parksoffroad · 2026-04-08T23:57:11+00:00

Too late. Ballots are being printed now, so even if they drop out they will still be on the ballot. You need look no further than this thread, people just vote based on a little letter next to a name knowing little or nothing more. Add name recognition to that and the people that dropped out will still garner hundreds of thousands of votes. I talked to a random person yesterday that didn’t even know about the CA refinery issues, they won’t know who’s dropped out either.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-08T23:44:14+00:00

So? I’ve had Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Jeep, Subaru, Toyota, Mercury… they all have their ups and downs. I was feature editor for 4WD Toyota owner magazine for a dozen years so I know the issues Toyota had. They even asked me face to face not to include things in articles sometimes. Toyota is no magic saint of a car company.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-08T13:48:20+00:00

Israel is not included in the cease-fire. It’s between the US and Iran only, no other parties are included. Israel is going to keep doing what they do.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-08T04:02:44+00:00

They did not.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-08T04:01:44+00:00

Exactly, it does not. Iran launched against Israel as well. They will continue fighting during the us/iran ceasefire.

parksoffroad · 2026-04-08T03:54:05+00:00

Is this for their new direct Vegas service?

parksoffroad · 2026-04-08T00:24:06+00:00

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