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[00:00:27] Eric Goranson: Welcome to the Around The House Show. This is where we talk everything about your home. So you can become either a better caretaker, maybe you're gonna build a new one, redesign the one you've got. This show is for you. Well, I got a lot I want to talk about today. But first, hey, if you're listening on the podcast here, make sure that you subscribe.

[00:00:46] Eric Goranson: And if you're on your desktop, maybe you're using iTunes, make sure you do that. Uh, follow, subscribe, all that stuff. So you can see every time we come up with an update here on the. Now, today I wanted to talk about a few [00:01:00] things. Uh, first off, all you people in Florida, Georgia, down in the south, be very careful this week.

[00:01:06] Eric Goranson: Heed those warning. Make sure you got things dialed in ready for this hurricane that's coming through this week, cuz it, uh, does not look like it's gonna be a good thing for anybody down there. It is gonna be relentless. So make sure that you've got that. Uh, the, of course, they don't know the exact track yet until it hits land, but you can kind of get an idea of that whole area is, uh, gonna be in trouble here.

[00:01:28] Eric Goranson: So make sure that you've got all the supplies you need if you're in a place where you can ride it out. Got plenty of water and food and uh, ways to communicate. And then if you are gonna be home and riding out, make sure you've got a plan for getting that water away. Cuz if it's not the wind that does it, the water will.

[00:01:46] Eric Goranson: So make sure that you've got things dialed in around your house, gut's cleaned, uh, you know, branches and stuff away from the home. Make sure that you've got that sum pump cleaned up, dialed in, all those things ready to. Wouldn't be a bad idea [00:02:00] to have a blue tarp or two sitting around just in case you've got some damage.

[00:02:04] Eric Goranson: But, uh, stay tuned and if you've got any information that you want to get out or if you've got questions. On what to do. Feel free to message me over at around the house online.com and I'll be monitoring that and I will try to give you as best information as I can and as quickly as I can. Uh, and if you can't get over to that, no problem.

[00:02:24] Eric Goranson: If you've got Twitter, you can always hit me up there around the house with Eric g and I will tweet back as fast as I can to you to give you the best information. Well, today I wanted to talk about a news story that I saw this morning that just absolutely. Drove me nuts. And this happened actually a couple days ago, but it finally made the news in my area and California's gonna do it again.

[00:02:45] Eric Goranson: You know, they don't have enough power in the summertime to run electric air conditioners and charge people's cars at the same time. We've seen the power warnings where they said, Hey, we need to cut back on utility usage. [00:03:00] Now they're doubling down on that. They are going to make it now and. And their ongoing effort for a cleaner air in California, as they put it, they're going to, uh, try to slash ozone pollution even more.

[00:03:14] Eric Goranson: They just approved the California Air Resource Board, which is carb. Last Thursday, they approved to ban the sale of all natural gas fired space heaters and water heating appliances by 2030. Now, in your. If you are using an electric water heater, that is one of the biggest expenses outside of heating your house.

[00:03:41] Eric Goranson: You can have, so that uses a ton of electricity. The only way to get around that is to go with a heat pump water heater. But as they currently stand, there is no way their electrical grid can support all new cars by [00:04:00] 2035 to be electric. All homes to be running. You know, when you replace that, you were gonna have to put in a brand new electric unit or a heat pump.

[00:04:12] Eric Goranson: So I see massive problems coming ahead because at this pace, there is absolutely no way they're gonna have the electrical grid to be able to do this. Now, here's where it's gonna hurt people the most. The biggest problem I see out there. Is for our more low income people, those people that are just trying to stay in their home.

[00:04:36] Eric Goranson: Maybe grandmas just ride it out and their furnace quits. They're gonna have to go into a massive change. Now hear me out. Here's what I'm worried about. My house was built in 1977 when I had my electrical panel swapped out. They had to move it to get it up to. All those things [00:05:00] that would've cost in today's work, about seven grand from the company.

[00:05:07] Eric Goranson: So if I was gonna write a number on it, that's seven grand. Now you put on top of a 15 or $20,000 heating and cooling system on there. I don't know a lot of people in the lower income range. That can come up with $27,000, $26,000 or more to put in that system. And I think this is where we're running into some huge problems because what's gonna have to happen, and many of these older homes have a hundred damn services, especially in California.

[00:05:45] Eric Goranson: Can't tell you how many of those I've run into. So these new. Regulations that are coming out are gonna be really dependent. They're gonna lean heavy and cost these lower income people a [00:06:00] lot of money. Do I see any funding coming for this? Uh, as far as I've seen, it is not addressed. So I think this is where we're gonna see some issues and I think that's where this is gonna get really expensive as well, because there's only two ways this is gonna happen.

[00:06:21] Eric Goranson: It's either gonna be on the backs of lower income people on their homes, or we're gonna have to depend on the government to give them enough rebates to do that. Either way, it's costing people a lot of money, and I think California, in my opinion, has gotten way over their skis on this, and I think you've got them doing this grab of going all electric, but they don't have the resources to.

[00:06:49] Eric Goranson: I don't see them putting in, i, I, I can't see them putting in, in the next 10 years enough solar panels and wind energy to be able to do this. Now, [00:07:00] if they started building a nuclear reactor today, or multiple nuclear reactors today, I don't think that they could get caught up. Cuz not only do they have to go build out these power stations, they've gotta get that out to the neighborhood.

[00:07:17] Eric Goranson: And the neighborhoods don't have the capacity to do that. If you go down a neighborhood street and have to double that capacity, they could barely keep the power on now. So Californians, if you are making on that lower income range of people that own homes, you're in deep trouble there. And I feel bad for you guys, but um, you know, these are the people that you guys have voted into office that have put you in this position.

[00:07:44] Eric Goranson: Uh, that is very unfortunate and I hope that, uh, maybe some common sense will come back to this because, uh, we don't talk politics here much. But, uh, I tell you what, this is gonna get really expensive for Californians. Either way you do it. And I mean, I, I want a cleaner [00:08:00] earth here around us, no problem. But I think when we sit here and put this much speed into it and that little of planning, it's gonna get expensive now.

[00:08:13] Eric Goranson: My only hope now is, is that cooler heads prevail on this in a few years and they go, Whoa, we are your, there's no way we're gonna have enough for this. Cause I don't know by you, but it's been 10 years that I've been watching at least them saying, Hey, turn off your air conditioners cuz we don't have enough power in Southern California.

[00:08:29] Eric Goranson: They haven't fixed it yet. Do I see them fixing in another 10 years? Not at the speed they do stuff. So that's gonna be something let's keep an eye on. I think we're gonna see some bigger issues there, especially when we start putting the load of electric heat in the wintertime and electric cars charging and they don't need that much heat.

[00:08:50] Eric Goranson: But when they do, they do. Now I wanna talk about the sweet irony of all this, and this is where it gets interesting. So every time the California's gotta go turn [00:09:00] off their power, what happens? Everybody goes out, gets out those gasoline powered generators. The big companies start up their diesel fuel generators, or they have the natural gas generators that are much more cleaner, but the amount of emissions coming out when they turn off power because the fire hazards in those areas is absolutely massive as far as the pollution from that, and it's just kind of ironic.

[00:09:38] Eric Goranson: That they're pushing their electrical grid so much that they're actually gonna be causing more pollution when that electricity comes off. So that means that they're gonna have some bigger problems when the power goes out. Now guess what? If you've got no natural gas going, and they're in, by the way, they just discontinued the [00:10:00] subsidies to put natural gas into neighborhoods and the new neighborhoods in California.

[00:10:05] Eric Goranson: So low income people there are getting a break as well. But my biggest issue that I see right here is that when people don't have power and they don't have natural gas, they're gonna be going to diesel, they're gonna be going to unleaded gasoline, and those things are way dirtier than what the natural gas would do anyway.

[00:10:32] Eric Goranson: And one of the kinda. Ridiculous comments from the California Air Resource Board is they're talking about the chemicals and the stuff that comes out from natural gas leaks inside the home. I'm sorry, that is the leash to your worries inside the home. If you've got a natural gas leak, you've got a natural gas leak, but generally what's coming outta there is not the problem with the gas company.

[00:10:58] Eric Goranson: 95% of [00:11:00] the time those issues inside the. Or a homeowner not turning on your van hood when you cook, if you've got a gas cooktop or a gas range and you're not turning that hood on, that's venting all the way to the outside. That's on you. Those chemicals, that nasty stuff that is you causing that indoor air pollution.

[00:11:21] Eric Goranson: So one of those things that I think that we gotta be really careful with. I don't want anybody getting sick off of anything. What little you get is really gonna be from not using that hood. Now if you've got a leak in the house, cuz you don't have something fine tuned, that's a whole other story. But that's generally rare.

[00:11:40] Eric Goranson: So don't make your situation worse by having that natural gas leaking inside your house. Make sure that, uh, you get that tested. When a doubt, call your gas company if you think you smell gas in. Call 'em. They'll love to come out and test it. They wanna make sure that your house is safe. I don't know of a gas company out there that does not send somebody [00:12:00] out to make sure that everything's good and they have scanners.

[00:12:03] Eric Goranson: They can tell just little micro leaks to make sure you get it dialed in. Now, for any of you still in California that love to barbecue, you should be expecting those barbecue bands to be coming if they're gonna be diving into this, this deep. Expect that gas, barbecue, even the pellet, any of that stuff. I see that coming next you'll probably be allowed only to electric barbecues.

[00:12:28] Eric Goranson: So if that's not on the horizon down there or not on the news, it's gonna be so, uh, hold on. Those, uh, barbecues, I think that's gonna be coming next. Not to be too negative about it, but I think anybody that's in California and Oregon and Washington and East coast. What happens in California ends up spreading across the rest of the United States in those areas.

[00:12:49] Eric Goranson: So be careful these bands could be coming to a state near you. All right, now I do have one more tip I wanna give out to people out there. We're kind of [00:13:00] getting to that fall time of year here, so I mean, technically we're in fall even though hurricane season's going and everything else is happen. Here's what I'd like you to do.

[00:13:08] Eric Goranson: Make sure you get that heating and cooling system tuned up because now is the time you should be getting that service call done. Especially if you're in a northern state where things get cold or you in an area where that heat is really dependent on, uh, working correctly. And if you have not had your heating and cooling system, your H V A C system serviced in the last.

[00:13:31] Eric Goranson: I highly recommend you do it now. Right now it's kind of that time of year where you can get some reasonable prices on service. They're not trying to put in all the air conditioners. They're not, People aren't thinking heaters. It's kind of a little bit of that off season. They're still busy, but I want you to make sure and get that thing serviced.

[00:13:50] Eric Goranson: And yeah, you can do some of it yourself, but I really like to have that technician go in, clean out everything, make sure that the gas. If it's a gas furnace is [00:14:00] running correctly, they'll get it fine tuned. They'll make sure that you're doing everything perfectly inside of that. They'll make sure nothing's broken and they're gonna make sure that everything's working great.

[00:14:11] Eric Goranson: Maybe they're gonna recommend, you know, a, a new filter. Maybe they're gonna recommend some cleaning. Maybe you need a few new parts. I would much rather have it where they come out and say, Hey, you got this. It's gonna leave you hanging in this winter. Let's get it taken care of. Versus you on Thanksgiving night, having to sit there and pay an extra 3, 4, 500 bucks for a service call because your house is 45 degrees, and you should have had that done sooner.

[00:14:35] Eric Goranson: So another little tip, make sure and get that service call out there. And if you've got somebody you work with, see if they've got a maintenance plan. Sometimes that can be a huge savings for them to come out. You buy into a maintenance plan, they'll come out and, uh, every year do something for you and, uh, make sure that that's all dialed.

[00:14:52] Eric Goranson: And if you're in an area where the, where you're using the AC heavy and you're using the heat heavy, maybe twice a year is something you [00:15:00] need to have done. Where somebody's looking at. Air conditioning one time, and of course the heater the next. So make sure you've got that dialed in. Now. I saw something on the news this morning that, uh, really got me going and I love this super positive here, guys.

[00:15:15] Eric Goranson: This is amazing. Now I'm a connoisseur of old Ford trucks. I've got an old Ford truck that I drive around F 2 50, 19 95, and I love that thing. I can fix it, I can drive it, and every year it becomes, More than less, which is awesome. But there is a company now down in Florida called Velocity Modern Classics.

[00:15:38] Eric Goranson: They are taking an old F for, you know, Ford F two 50 truck, completely rebuilding it and making it into a new vehicle for you. So they start out with a Roadster shop, RS four frame. They put in brand new for. You know, suspension, 18 [00:16:00] inch wheels, five liter coyote v8, automatic overdrive transmission, custom stainless exhaust, stainless fuel tank.

[00:16:11] Eric Goranson: Everything is awesome. Custom paint, beautiful. 33 inch tires. This thing is gorgeous leather interior, comfortable AC Bluetooth, all the stuff you want. Out of a new truck, but in the package of an old one. And that's one of the things that I absolutely love right now is that you can sit here and build or rebuild a truck like this and their Heritage Edition package, which is cool.

[00:16:45] Eric Goranson: You get the two-tone paint, it looks like a classic. and it's beautiful. So something to be said about this, it's super cool. They're taking orders for 'em now, and, uh, they're taking that [00:17:00] vintage truck and rebuilding it for you. Now, this is not for the faint of heart signature series. Base model is 285,000.

[00:17:10] Eric Goranson: Heritage. It's starting at 325,000, and the commission build doesn't even have a price. So, uh, instead of getting that Lambo, instead of getting that Ferrari, maybe uh, you can get an. F two 50 that has been born again and is beautiful and ready to go. All right, everybody have a great rest of the week. Enjoy it.

[00:17:33] Eric Goranson: Florida, Georgia. Stay safe down there. Guys. I just wanna make sure that you guys are staying safe and uh, of course, like I said, make sure and contact me if you have any questions. Twitter, around the house online. I'll get back to you as soon as you can on emergency repairs, things like. I'll do my best to be here for you, and we got a great show coming up on Saturday.

[00:17:51] Eric Goranson: We'll tease that on Thursday. You won't wanna miss this one. We got some new products and cool stuff to talk about. All right, everybody, have a great rest of the week and thanks again for [00:18:00] listening to the Midweek special. This has been around the house.