Electric shock: A new study found that EVs were more expensive to fuel than gas-powered cars at the end of 2022

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Somebody has to keep the power transmision lines from hydro and roads open for natives, miners, weirdo off griders and tree poachers.
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Once upon a time, the logging companies did that themselves. Now, some FSRs are "maintained" by highways, some by logging companies that use them, some by MoF, and most not at all. And we have a few querky ones on the Island that as far as I know don't exist anywhere else. We have highways that off highway logging tucks use. Nice wide lanes to accomadate 14 ft wide trucks. Top of Gibsons mountain to Pt Alice, and Gold River townsite to the ocean. Kemano, which is really odd, because the only thing there is the power generation for Kitamat smelter, which has a crew of about 12 in camp. About 13 km from the dock to camp.
 
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Once upon a time, the logging companies did that themselves. Now, some FSRs are "maintained" by highways, some by logging companies that use them, some by MoF, and most not at all. And we have a few querky ones on the Island that as far as I know don't exist anywhere else. We have highways that off highway logging tucks use. Nice wide lanes to accomadate 14 ft wide trucks. Top of Gibsons mountain to Pt Alice, and Gold River townsite to the ocean. Kemano, which is really odd, because the only thing there is the power generation for Kitamat smelter, which has a crew of about 12 in camp. About 13 km from the dock to camp.
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Good sources for dead fall firewood.
 
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Long time since there , North Island was a forgotten Eden , sounds like that is changing .
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Pt Hardy really went for a shit after the mine closed. Finally got a decent Coast Guard station. Lots of government offices, mostly staffed by people with social work degrees telling the rest of the survivors how they should become self employed. I was up there for several daays about this time last year repairing the old Robert Scott School. It is now about half daycare and half social worker offices. Seagate is gone. The pub is now storage. Tbird pub is a church, but the hotel part is still running.
 
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Pt Hardy really went for a shit after the mine closed. Finally got a decent Coast Guard station. Lots of government offices, mostly staffed by people with social work degrees telling the rest of the survivors how they should become self employed. I was up there for several daays about this time last year repairing the old Robert Scott School. It is now about half daycare and half social worker offices. Seagate is gone. The pub is now storage. Tbird pub is a church, but the hotel part is still running.
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Wow the Seagate was like home for three months and when not there at the TBird . Some changes are not for the better . Can’t remember the name but there used to be a lounge on the hill up from Seagate .
 
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Wow the Seagate was like home for three months and when not there at the TBird . Some changes are not for the better . Can’t remember the name but there used to be a lounge on the hill up from Seagate .
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That would be Seagate pub, if you mean right above the old part of the hotel. There is North Shore, just across from carrot park.
 
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That would be Seagate pub, if you mean right above the old part of the hotel. There is North Shore, just across from carrot park.
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I think it must have been North Shore . It was not the Seagate Pub it was on a side road looking east over the park and Seagate wharf .
 
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For you maybe. We regularly drive shit roads, pack loads, tow a boat, etc. We have a newish truck for this, a 30 yr old truck that I use for work, use it to launch in salt water as well. A 23 yr old awd beater with a heater(most of the time) that I use for running around with the hairball, and a near new Prius halfbreed awd for basic running around and sometimes day trips with no dog.
Last summer we took a trip to SanJosph Bay, which is about 5 hrs from here. The last 40 or so miles is logging road. Used to be a nice localish beach when I lived in Pt Hardy. If there were a dozen people on the beachit was considered busy and you probably knew half of them If not, you would by the end of the day. Las summer there were about a hundred vehicles in the parking lot, which is about a km closer to the beach and 10 times the size it used to be, and on the road. Lots of city SUVs, and the people that drive them clearly believe the commercials for their toys. They were pounding through potholes, passing my 1 ton truck like we were standing still. Never buy a used SUV at the Vancouver car auction.
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Good for you to get out and participate in what must be fabulous country. Some day maybe for me. I did make Kitimat and Port Rupert 6 or so years ago.

We're good here in NW Ontario with pretty well nothing but lakes to explore and play. Lots of near to surface Canadian Shield with plenty of outcrops for the geology buffs. And logging roads that go forever.

Could be the age demographic only driving a few times a week that has me thinking cars are being used less as well.
 
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