The market is heavily distorted by a relatively small number of new car buyers either affluent or stupid enough to buy a new car every year and roll over the old vehicle into their payments. What happens when that pool of buyers dries up? Good question!

If you're in a wreck with somebody who doesn't have insurance you're fucked regardless.

I am here again to complain that cars are inherently negative assets, so everyone is "underwater." You aren't getting your insurance payments, maintenance, parking costs, or gas back. Any "equity" in a car is a balance sheet phantom, and not acknowledging this is irresponsible.

Sorta except half of them will be buying bikes.

Boy for somebody who doesn't think climate change is real he sure has some drastic measures to cut transport emissions!

I walk or ride a bike against traffic on a highway for a mile as part of my commute, and so I can see right into people’s cars as they go by. The majority are distracted in some way.

Forsaking nothing. People don't want these things but it's the only car you can buy in a lot of places.

Yeah that’s great hey what’s the wage growth been between 1998 and now and while we’re at it, was the Mercury Tracer the cheapest new car on the lot? How were used prices? How did the price of vehicles compare to the price of other necessities? You might find the answers illuminating.

I am begging you to stop using the term “Underwater” for car loans. The standard for “underwater” is that you owe more than the asset is worth, and this is always going to be true for any car you own.

Just fucking ban Airbnb already. Or even better, bill them for the costs of their platform, and make hosting contingent on the company paying those bills.

I actually live in a city, and clearly charging isn't an issue since I see more and more EVs on the street everyday.

“How dare you make a car that’s cheap and an EV? People actually want that! How are we supposed to sell them a land boat with a tablet from 2015 jammed in the dash?”

Just because you lack the discipline to focus at home doesn’t mean a majority do.

“Short sighted blinkered strategies" is all the auto industry has, though.

Well, since the whole idea of the EV conversion was to dramatically reduce Scope 3 emissions to avoid pressuring other industries to make drastic emissions cuts...buckle up.

No, because people don’t want to sit down and actually figure out how much they drive and how far it is. If they did, most range anxiety would vanish.

Wawa's quality controls are the only reason they haven't stormed New England. Once they figure that out it's over for everybody except possibly Cumby's.

He’s angry he can’t drive his toy around so people can look at him. Fuck him.

Cconsumer demand isn't moving towards hybrids, at least not from the EV sector. If you want anything other than a giant fucking shitbox and can't make an EV work for you, you pretty much are buying a hybrid.

Leaving aside Paxton’s raging hypocrisy for a moment, he’s suing because he needs something to blame for rate hikes other than climate change. The middle of the country is in a serious insurance crisis and Republicans are completely hapless now that the free market has decided they're not worth insuring.