Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "CNBC" channel.

  1. She turned out to be less of a Steve Jobs more a bad Apple.
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  2. Yeah I always take those with a half grain of salt, what hubby is going to say it sucks even when it does?
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  3.  @1310beth  Those out of work in service sector should look to the trades--endless opportunities and shortages there for decades now. Excess regulations are a big problem too.
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  4. Unfortunately 40 yrs of excessive Left policies have substantially degraded the state. I'm entrenched and can't stand flatlands, love the High Sierra backcountry, climate, natural landscape, otherwise would probably be packing too.
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  5. 10 tons of sand for 1 ton of concrete??? How is that possible!? I call BS.
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  6. It wasn't "ppl ripping out copper wire and plumbing" it was cranksters.
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  7. Let'em FAIL as they've been begging for. GOOD RIDDANCE.
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  8. 36 units delivered or CGI models presented?
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  9.  @ThinhLe-xt1ky  How many tons of salt do you want with your steak dinner?
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  10. Climate alarmist sure don't.
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  11. "If you can't pay for it twice in cash you can't afford it." Why the hell would anyone make payments in the 1st place? Get an old Honda and get ahead.
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  12. Folks who purchase American names no matter how crap they are.
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  13. Multi-century high water markers.
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  14.  @noneshere  Yeah I'm happy to be rid of carbs because I HAD to work on them. Haven't done a damn thing on injection systems in 30 yr.s and 4 vehicles. Not to mention power, efficiency and so on.
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  15. Let'em go away. Obsolete biz models with crap vehicle models. GOOD RIDDANCE.
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  16. It's stupid to judge a person by the car they happen to occupy at the moment--but I always thought anyone who purchases an Escalade must be stupid, don't know the new ones but there was nothing but cheesy Chevy in them traditionally. Horrible drama styling with cheep plastic chrome crap everywhere, dashboard made out of half a trash bin....rubbish on road and off, unreliable, totally tasteless. I'd have to be in best humor to be seen in one, sort of the expensive version of the laughable PT Cruiser.
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  17.  @brodiapunch  FL is a 'free state', so naturally everyone is fleeing the Commies and driving up prices there, TX, etc.. Plus the reckless shutdown disaster will still be paid for by your grandchildren. Did you expect no consequences for insane political policies? Maybe you'd prefer NYC, Los Angeles or Frisco progressive disaster areas? Realize that being anti-leftist does not mean being Republican, it's not a binary world.
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  18. @Nobody here but us Chaotic Neutral chickens Instead of mindless regurgitated non-thinking nonsense why don't you become prosperous yourself instead? Farmers aren't destroying produce for profit. Why don't you come up with a solution instead of blaming everyone but yourself? I've been transforming my modest lot into a beautiful food producing landscape for many yr.s, that's my partial solution.
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  19.  @pdougall1  Assume it's sarcasm.
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  20. I just added 4 orders for 10 shares each in the mid $700's....started accumulating at $190 last June, basis low $300's. It's not about where it's been but where it's going. Deciding to stay long today is exactly the same as deciding to BUY at today's price. (emotionally ppl have a hard time with that idea but emotions are the enemy of every investor)
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  21. I agree with balance but living frugally is NOT living badly necessarily.
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  22.  Richard Skipper  WTF? What are you talking about?
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  23.  @mattlane2282  WTH?? Solar is being installed all over the place, that's been worked out decades ago. Add batteries and you can go off grid if you invest enough in the system, it may not pencil out just yet but it's getting closer every year.
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  24. It started several centuries ago, remember the Luddites?
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  25. Dealerships days are numbered.
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  26.  @charlesmichaels6648  It was decent for it's day, drag coefficient of 0.48, back when manufacturers barely considered drag. But not by today's standards of around the low/mid 0.3s. It doesn't have sharp edges and relatively clean underneath where much of drag typically comes from, two good things for it, but that's it. It became very "floaty" at today's normal highway speeds and was terrifying in crosswinds. It's fuel economy was mainly the result of small size, lite wt. and small engine. Don't forget that drag coefficient and DRAG are two different things, a bigger vehicle can have a better coefficient and still more drag.
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  27.  @Stressless2023  I don't know about the Pacifica per se but Chryslers are known to be crap, no offense. Pickups the exception. I bet you will have major problems with it over time, transmission particularly. It will fall to pieces.
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  28. Please keep them OFF the road where they belong. ;-)
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  29. Walmart most soul destroying bit of America, wouldn't frequent there for free food.
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  30.  @T0198  Torx bolts are for a damn good reason--they are far superior to the always strip prone allens they replace and they are uniform across industries with common tools, if adding a set of torx bits to your socket sets overwhelms you then you have no biz DIYing anyway.
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  31.  @htaukkyanmyo4437  It's a complicated problem that money alone WILL NOT solve. Vast majority are substance abusers, you could give them all homes for free and those properties will be effectively destroyed within a yr. But we need to cut ALL SPENDING or we're in deep trouble. Military spending is extremely inefficient (what government spending isn't), we could get a lot more for our buck.
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  32. Where is the compare to other plants? These folks aren't working there by force.
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  33. Yeah the lottery is for fools, I wouldn't bet against Elon, but I can't quite put my money on Tesla either.
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  34. Does he miss flipping vehicles? ;-) Way back when the Bronco was known for that.
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  35.  @charlesmichaels6648  Just keep those rubbish relics OFF the highway please. Don't know what you'er talking about regarding EPA but I remember when the air in big US cities would gag you, burn your eyes and just plain STUNK. Oh....and USA rivers were so polluted they sometimes caught on fire. Not to justify EPA overreach but things were FAR worse before it existed.
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  36. A tangent-- Berkshire minimum requirements for acquisitions: (I especially appreciate the last one) "Berkshire has laid out six criteria for acquiring a business. It must be a large purchase, at least $50 million of before-tax earnings. The company must have demonstrated consistent earning power and have businesses earning good returns on equity while employing little or no debt. It also must be a simple business -- Buffett noted that "if there's lots of technology, we won't understand it" -- and management must be in place. Lastly, there has to be an offering price. Berkshire said it will not engage in unfriendly takeovers."
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  37. "'beamed down from space to show us all how it's done'" Pretty insightful in hindsight Bob.
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  38. Love the guy but BOX has not aged well so far. (it's OK if he's wrong once in a while or just early)
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  39. Hayden Macfarlane There is no 35k Tesla at this point, not even close. I hope they can accomplish that in the near future but I wouldn't bet grocery money on it right now.
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  40.  @angelgjr1999  It's proving to be much more expensive than wind and solar. Solar continues a multi-decade price decline trajectory with no end in sight and already about the cheapest new source available. (hydro aside as it's mostly tapped out)
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  41. This advertisement isn't much better than the crude unimpressive machines they sell, they are fun for a while but prone to failure and problems and haven't much improved in 20 yr.s. Amazing they are still in business.
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  42.  @charlesmichaels6648  Maybe a little but not a lot. They get lift, get light at highway speeds for one thing. I understand the attraction to antiques, simplicity and so on, but old cars are inferior in most respects, certainly performance, comfort and especially safety. The Bug was shaped in early 1940's so it's bound to be even worse than most of it's contemporaries by say the '80's. They are great offroad however, as far as stock cars go. Can be fun at low speeds/shorter distances.
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  43.  @tjwoosta  Salting roads is a stupid practice IMO. Coarse sand does the trick just fine without destroying infrastructure, vehicles and damaging the environment.
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  44. ALL consumer electronics, most appliances and many other things are dramatically cheaper. Your phone alone replaces several thousand $ worth of 1990 equipment, camcorder, camera, calculator, maybe even desktop computer. Cars today are vastly superiour to 1970's death traps that got 12mpg, had bad brakes, crap acceleration and handling, no AC, homes are vastly bigger and better today and so on.
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  45.  @_TbT_  Exactly. The old one's were good in a roll over only but of course they had 'low rolling resistance' too, easy to tumble. Also the original had atrocious aerodynamic qualities, not so bad at 50mph but much above that it became scary, floaty and highly inefficient.
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  46. Everyone seems to forget that we have been subsidizing the heck out of fossil fuels since day one. Trillions of of tax dollars have gone into protecting the Persian Gulf ONLY to protect the oil shipping lanes, the environmental cost associate with consumption are NOT being paid upfront as they should be....difficult to estimate but certainly not zero. (those are a couple *indirect subsidies*) If you believe bin Laden-- 9/11 would not have happened if not for our relations with Saudi which were, obviously, all about petroleum. Direct subsidies (according to Forbes): "between 1994 and 2009 the U.S. oil and gas industries received a cumulative $446.96 billion in subsidies, compared to just $5.93 billion given to renewables in those years."
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  47. Tires are far cheaper today then when I started buying in the early 1980's, adjusted for inflation, quality and longevity. They have advanced fantastically in recent decades too.
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  48. A dramatic reduction in extractive industries will result and it's already happening, coal mining, oil and gas are tapped and used once, coal is already dying fast in the West. (China the big exception, they continue to increase consumption) While fossils are burned one time, ALL battery elements will be endlessly recycled just like aluminum has been since day one, ultimately reducing mining to a small fraction of what it is today. 70% of all the aluminum ever mined is still in use today, likewise for Li and other batt elements in the future.
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  49. I did some contracting for the Silver Peak, Nevada brine mine in late '80's. It was a small salt flat where essentially no life could exist to start with, they pump brine from underground, extract the Li salts and when they are done, it will remain a salty flat wasteland not too different from how they found it. Not all Li mines are brine but those can be about as environmentally benign as any mine can be, the composition of remaining salts will simply be missing one component and the landscape won't be much altered, a little local subsidence is about all.
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  50. And anger at the media for hyping and creating this disaster.
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