Ouch! I pay 9 cents a kilowatt on my electrickery bill. 60 cents sounds like a total rip off. Is that normal price or is that what they charge at the stations?

Lol I guess I’m a monster too for buying stuff on grift day. (Not that I care in the least what someone who believes in an adult version of Santa thinks at the best of times.)

Ah ok that would be an option yours didn’t have then. Up here virtually all cars have them.

Sonomas are decent little trucks overall. With a lot of Gm products a lot of shit quits working for no reason (or cheap plastic parts break) and there’s always little gremlins to chase, but they’ll usually get you to where you’re going.

But ya, If everything worked proper, the 96’ Sonoma is supposed to turn the ac compressor on and flip a vent door to redirect the air to your windshield whenever you put the dial to the far right defrost. It’ll still defrost the window anyway if the ac is bust, but with the dry air it works a lot faster. Your defogger button directly under that knob only puts power to the heat lines in your rear window. They’re kinda meh for actual defogging in my opinion, but they’re great for melting ice so you can at least see out the back. (probably not as big of a deal with a flat back window like yours, works nice on curved back window on my Olds Intrigue.)

Ok maybe I’m misunderstanding something, because from your comment it sounded like you think the ac doesn’t work in the winter when you use defrost with the heat on. And my point is that most cars are set up to do exactly that because it works better regardless of where the temperature dial is.

Defoggers are a separate thing altogether and has nothing to do with your heat, AC, or blower. Maybe it’s different in some newer cars but traditionally all a defogger is is those heat cables that you see in the back window, nothing else. (They’re just a larger version of heated mirrors for your rear view)

Not trying to argue, just trying to clarify things.

I really don’t know what to tell you there, I’m going by the vehicle manufacturer’s labels. The “defrost” mode on your climate controls (typically all the way to the right) that blows air towards your windshield will often use the ac compressor even if you have the heat set to high, because ac drys the air… it doesn’t have to be cold, it can be any temperature. Blowing wet warm air at the windshield isn’t very effective compared to dry warm air. That is especially true in our Canadian winters.

You can try it with virtually any car made from the 1970’s to today (and some in the 1950’s and 60’s) that was equipped with AC. Turn your defrost on, crank your heat, and you will hear/notice the slip clutch on the end of the AC compressor under the hood will kick in, turning on the ac unit. Some cars do come with a dedicated separate defrost button, (as opposed to the defogger button which only operates the heat lines in your back window) they also will use the AC to dry the air.

Defoggers are typically the heat lines you see in back windows, although some old cars (like my old 69 Newport) had blowers for the back window as well, and even a second heater core to feed it.

Long story short, AC is for drying air, not just cooling it.

My 78 Chrysler was designed to use the AC in defrost mode even in a winter blizzard and was much more effective and drying the windshield because of it. Most heating/cooling system in cars were combined much earlier than that to take advantage of dehumidifying the air. It also has the benefit to run the compressor to keep lubrication and stop seals from drying out in the AC system that would otherwise not be used to months at a time.

There are some vehicles with separate heating and AC systems, (mainly cheap or aftermarket units) but the vast majority run together. (At least in North American cars.)

I don’t think so… it seems a fancy way of saying you smacked it really hard.

Smote is the past tense form of the verb smite, which is most frequently used to mean “to strike sharply or heavily especially with the hand or with something held in the hand,” or “to kill or severely injure by striking in such a way.”

It can also be used to describe hitting objects.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smote

They would certainly try. Something like that would have to be decentralized to make it far.

Ya I watched right to the end of the video hoping one of those was going to be the money shot.

It would be a shame if we crowdsourced the same idea to track them with “publicly available information”

If you have Proton, Chicago Illinois #2 works.

It’s almost like an electric wheelbarrow with a cab. I like it.

Trump branded ev… $100 says it would run on coal.

They can try… but the only thing they’re gonna accomplish is a whole new list of no-no’s added to the Geneva convention.

That one usually gets mopped up after trump leaves a room.

You can call it whatever you want you senile old shitstain, it’s still Lake Ontario.

Sincerely yours, Canada.

(PS: I hope the White house fire system is up to code)

Luckily one of the techs present was familiar with human medicine

… I mean, it’s a good thing they didn’t try and change his oil.

Global news put out the full list. https://globalnews.ca/news/12034101/canada-tariffs-us-list/

Yup, it was on shaky ground before, nevermind that a pedo and his group of cronies have had two years to destroy nearly everything and stack the deck in their favor.