TomG2 wrote:
Ductape wrote:
Guess I made a mistake wasting money on those expensive red generators too. Or at least that's what some believe.
They're 15 years old now and still running well.
Some of us appreciate quality and don't mind paying for it. It's always a hoot when people on an RV forum start playing the thrift card. Nothing about this lifestyle makes a good financial computation.
If generators had made the progress that electronics have, those generators would silently be putting out 4,000 watts and cost $40 today. Apples and Oranges. Even if you paid $500 for a phone fifteen years ago, it would be worth two dollars today. Maybe. Nothing in common with generators, no matter what color.
You're not completely correct. The phones today still work just like the phones from 15 years ago: you talk into it and listen to it, you then can communicate with the person on the other end.
Something similar would be that you could now take hi-res photos with your generator, and play games with it. You could wirelessly remote start it, but so could other people. And it would be possible for people to remotely steal the gas from it. Otherwise it would generate the same electricity as it did 15 years ago, just with more bells and whistles. And it would use a lot more gas to do the same job, and you would have to fill it up frequently.
