I would have way more, but I have wired connections for many things that are important. So my home office is all wired for my laptop, printer and PC's... my VoIP, NAS, PS4, FireTV, and Home Alarm are also all on wired connections as well as some other items. Leaving WiFi for mostly our cell phones, kids laptops (not in wired location), and a handful of FireTV's in bedrooms, and maybe a random device or 2.

Agree. It's called a 'lock screen' for a reason. it shouldn't show any sensitive information until it's been unlocked. I'm ok with it showing the time, or how many missed calls/messages I have. But in no way, want any info from the messages, senders, callers or anything else showing, for privacy reasons. The whole point of a lock screen is to keep someone who might gain access to your phone from casually using it, or reading messages, etc.

I'm surprised at the amount of crap that Android and some phone makers/carriers wants to show on a lock screen these days by default. What is the point, just turn on to the homescreen if that is the case.

To be honest, I'm sure in the cities like LA area and SF areas, the median is most likely way higher. The median I posted is for the entire state, which also includes the central valley and northern california that are more rural, so I'm sure those areas bring the median down. But it's not like you can live in Shasta county and work in Silicon valley, or live in Fresno and commute to LA.

Has it occured that maybe as individuals we ARE making our choice for ourselves? It's just not the one that you might agree with, so you are advocating that government FORCE everyone to make the same decisions as you. The fact that my choices don't match up with what you think is best is the EXACT reason that we have a limited government and restrictions on what they are allowed to do.

Since the US is the last free coiuntry on earth where the government gets its powers from the people rather than the other way around, I'd rather like to keep it that way. If there are any people in the US who desire to have the EU style of government control and loss of individual liberty they are free to go live there or any other place. But since there is no other country on earth that has individual rights as the cornerstone of liberty, there is no other place for those of use who want to keep that to go. PS: that is why EU is not highly regarded here in the states, we left for a good reason a couple hundred years ago, and most of us don't have a desire to copy you guys in any way shape or form. Maybe if you had a government that didn't want to interject itself into every aspect of peoples lives, we'd care about what EU thinks more.

MORE options is the best corse of action, not killing a perfectly working option that is the best option for many people, so you can force a less functional, more limited, higher priced EV option. It's best to keep both options, and let the EV options fend for themselves.

Sounds like you might live in a EU country (Germany maybe?). Here in the US, that is most definately NOT what the governments job is. Their job is described in the US constitution, and gives them specific functions. Just because they crossed the line over the limits of what they are allowed to do, does not mean we should beg and hope they do it some more, to a even bigger degree.

I stand by what I said for at least the US... that is NOT the governements job. As a free people, we should be able to make those choices ourselves without being forced.

housekeeping and cable TV are fixed fees. Electricity for vehicle charging is not fixed, it's directly related to the usage. I should add that hotels DO charge extra for room service and pay-per-view movies. Those are not fixed price and so they charge... If they didn't charge for those items, then everyone would mooch, and order $200 of room service for free (because they can), and watch new movies on the house more. The hotel does not have those costs built in and fixed like they do others, it's more on demand. Like EV charging is.

you also confirmed what I fear, that over the long time, they'll build the price in to the cost of the room, which means that those who drive gas cars to the hotel get shafted and charged for something they aren't going to use. They will look at the other hotel across the street that doesn't make them pay more for something they don't need. Or will the hotel start giving gas cars a voucher to the gas station down the street for some free gas in the amount equivalent to the electrical costs for charging all night?

Your right, but that would kill everyone's argument about it only being viable if they charge at work. So is it still viable if everyone who would want to charge while at work, are asked not to by their employer because it's for patrons instead?

I'm not sure if your joking. I never said I had a junk heap. A one car garage with shelves on one side (which came with the house) means you can pull a small compact car in and open one door, I tried it once when I first moved in, before I put anything in the garage, and it was a tight fit. If a passenger wants to get in, you have to pull the car out first so they can get in. Not to mention, I work on stuff myself, so I have tools and toolchest, air compressor and other stuff one needs when they do all their own work on their cars and around the house. I also added a sub freezer so I can buy groceries in bulk, and have kids, that have bikes. None of it a hoard of junk, but my small Subaru WRX barely fit before all that stuff, how am I going to fit my bigger car, or minivan, or pickup in there.

You should pick a valid statement instead of using personal attacks about someone being a hoarder just because they don't have a 400 sq. ft., 3-car garage with room for cars and necessary man stuff.

Well, they'll still have to survive the hunger and and other nasty things being destined to be destitute because they owe more money for your Tesla discounts than they'll ever be able to pay back.

The difference is the bathroom wasn't mandated by law. A private, non-shared bathroom is something that everyone naturally wants already. So their are market forces that drive the change to put bathrooms in each dwelling, and not have common/shared baths. This isn't the case with EV. You can see on this board alone, half people might want it, and half don't. If it's not something that people want on their own, you can't make them want it. and if the demand isn't there, then the natural market forces won't be strong.

It's not the governments job to carrot+stick everyone to change what they want by using tax dollars collected by force (or threat of force) and help make it affordable. I was against it with Solar and and I am with EV's. "Coordinated incentives" as you put it, is another term for steal from everyone and give it to someone elses plan. If they have enough money to give rebates and incentives, then my (and your) taxes are too damn high and they have too much money to play around with and waste.