[Mifnet 🛰 73913] Re: NNN Travel Can Be Challenging

[F. Scott Wilson via Mifnet]

Great post Dan! Scott On Aug 30, 2025, at 6:19 PM, Dan Solon via Mifnet <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> wrote:  This leads onward to a technical/managerial question about the senior management of the US automobile industry. Fact: The Lower 48 are loosely +/- 2400 stat miles/4000 km East-West and +/- 1200 stat miles/2000 km North-South. The country has a grid system of Interstates and otherwise divided highways, thanks to Eisenhower and later administrations. This whole system is fully equiped with gas stations, fast food joints, no-tell motels and other support systems. However, it does not yet have, and will probably take some time to acquire, an all-points electical charging system. It seems to this layman -- a car enthusiast from about Model Year 1937, but totally unqualified on the engineering side -- that nobody in Detroit should have needed to call in McKinsey et al. to figure out that rechargeable hybrids are a pragmatic way to go for, say, the next 10 years. You're blitzing along I-10 halfway across Texas and the battery shows you have about  30 miles of juice left, but Google or somebody says the next charger is 60 miles away. Very bad news if you're all-electric, but a minor problem if you have (my fantasy) a small-displacement V-8 under the hood (further fantasy, a convertible with all wheel drive and a very sophisticated automatic transmission.) No problem. Put the pedal to the metal and look for an In 'N Out, with adjacent juice and gas. Daniel Solon All in favor of saving the environment, but hey guys, we still need to get from Ft. Worth to El Paso without calling AAA On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM David Wardell via Mifnet <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> wrote: Hi Dan,   All great comments. Yes, it’s “photoshopped” (and not a good job, either). My brother-in-law sent it to me (lives in SAT), and it was too good not to share. Also, “hard” is decidedly the way to describe any trans-Texas drive, in my humble view.   DW       David Wardell (757) 561-0582 da...@wardell.org <image002.png> <image003.png>       From: Dan Reed via Mifnet <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2025 1:27 PM To: mifnet@lists.mifnet.com Cc: danielfr...@sbcglobal.net Subject: [Mifnet 🛰 73906] Re: NNN Travel Can Be Challenging   Not a real sign (at least I don’t think it is), but the sign’s got it about right…. assuming this sign is at/near the Texas/Louisiana border near Shreveport.   People think I’m joking when I tell them that the halfway point between my home in Fort Worth and San Diego is El Paso (which is STILL in Texas, but a very HARD 13 hour drive… btw… it’s almost as far from my house to Harlingen down at the southern tip of the state)). But I’m not. The scale of Texas is just hard for people who’ve never lived here to wrap their heads around.  And while the time from the TX/LA border to Houston is really only about 5 hours or so, if you’re driving that way you really should “forget about it” ‘cause the traffic and the scale of the extraordinarily crowded superfreeways in the Houston area are, shall we say, “discouraging” to the Nth degree.  This scale is what made it possible for a little 3-plane intra-state airline called Southwest to survive when it started up 51 years or so ago. If you’re a business person on a tight schedule and a tight budget driving between Texas cities can be a real time eater, a personal life-disrupter, and expensive if you’ve gotta get a hotel overnight just to attend a 90-minute business meeting.   (Yes, the scale of Alaska is way, way bigger still… but so few people live up there, and there simply are no cross-state highways there, so nobody ever thinks about how long the theoretical driving distances up there would be).   Dan Reed Transplanted Texan   From: David Wardell via Mifnet <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2025 10:59 PM To: mifnet@lists.mifnet.com Cc: David Wardell <djward...@outlook.com> Subject: [Mifnet 🛰 73902] NNN Travel Can Be Challenging   <image001.jpg> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revised: 20250507 You are receiving The Mifnet because you requested to join this list. 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