My parents ask me this all the time and why I keep up with my 2010 Odyssey that is paid off. It runs, it works, and gets me from A-B without a hassle. Yea I have to toss some new ignition coils or change the power steering pump but shit that cost me like 200 dollars. They pay 800+ monthly per car and still have the…

But dealers didn’t make as much money back then.

the ones in Texas during that ice storm a couple of years ago sure didn’t.

If they do have gas-powered generators, the ones in my neighborhood don’t use them. When power is out, they’re out, too.

awwwwwwwwwww

But with an EV, you can charge at home if you have solar or wind or both on your roof.

We had gas supply issues here in Texas a few years back due to hurricanes, and a couple of years ago we had week long outages due to snow. The EV owners generally came out better than most gas car owners since they could recharge whenever the power came back, but with the gas stations you had to hope that they had…

Dear greedy dealers who have been screwing your customers for YEARS now: FUCK you. No, seriously... F-U-C-K. Y-O-U. No sympathy from me whatsoever. In fact, I can’t WAIT until the traditional dealership model - along with all of the same old tired bullshit games they’ve been playing for DECADES - is dead and buried…

1st gear:
Let them rot on the lot, we’ll see how long that lasts. 2023 is a slight recovery, but still a very down year compared to 2019/2020. Availability may be back, but cheaper cars are going extinct and so are buyers who want an affordable new car. You have a market with far less buyers, prices will have to come…

If you’re in Alabama, forget about ever getting EV’s. EVs are a liberal plot to destroy America so they’ll be banned in that state.

Mildly related:

Yeah I spent most of my life in South Florida and have been through multiple hurricanes where power went out for long periods of time and I can absolutely confirm that when the power’s out you’re not getting gas either. You fill up before the storm and limit your driving (if the roads are even passable), I imagine…

You know what else runs on electricity? Gas pumps.

Exactly, I fill my tires with air, so I am filling them with nitrogen.

Air is 78% nitrogen anyway.  Unless you’re driving a race car, you don’t need nitrogen fill.

Dealers are upset they need to offer incentives after a few years of hyper-aggresively fucking over customers.

The whole nitrogen in tires thing is really annoying, especially since the nitrogen they use is worth less than $1. (A standard 2200psi cylinder is ~230 cubic feet, and the nitrogen cost in a cylinder is like $50.)

1st Gear: “and refusing to concede ground for consumers,”

I could absolutely not give a shit about the plight of any car dealership.  Sink, baby, sink.

Instead of incentives, how about just knocking it off with the markup nonsense?