Sorry for being late to the game on this one, but I've often wondered why car companies haven't started marketing their Hybrid vehicles as standby (or camping) generators: for the extra money (as an option) and the extra hardware, how difficult would it be to use the existing automobile power plant to supply a few amps of Alternating Current at 120V?

Such an option would also be helpful for emergencies, especially were home power to be restructured to be able to disconnect from the grid (during power outages) and power high-priority circuits from your car (e.g. draw enough power to keep your food from spoiling, and let the engine recharge the batteries as necessary, or provide the full power).

Of course, you'd have to drive your generator to the filling station every now and again.

And if it can reduce the waste associated with dedicated generators which would no longer be required, all the better.

P.S. My experience would be consistent with your "last name" filter doing a comparison without 'lcase'ing the user's input.