It’s been my experience that:

Cayenne is one of the ugliest cars I have ever seen (I know, beauty and beholders and all that), so it’s ND for me.

Was just at the dealership to pick up some hard-to-source parts, for a car that is only 8-years-old.... (The average age of vehicles on the road is 12.6 years old, by the way.) While there, I found out their service department now charges $250 an hour. That’s in Denver.

The building codes changed for residential after Andrew blew through in ‘92.

“Don’t you bring yer fancy book learnin to Real ‘Murica!!!”

That’s mostly because a couple of generations ago, we downsized our rail infrastructure to a staggering degree rather than continuing to grow it alongside our population. Drive through middle America and every small town has an abandoned passenger railway station. Many mid-sized and larger cities have buried streetcar…

If you can’t refuel your gasoline powered car because the station is closed, you’re not going to have a long range either.

TPA closed at 9 this morning. SRQ is staying open until their last scheduled flight today. I had a hell of a time Sunday trying to book a Monday flight out of TPA for my stepdaughter on Jet Blue. Every time I’d have a ticket ready to buy, the webpage said sorry, no longer available. So I’d book a different seat or a…

At some point, SURELY some people will start to realize that building and buying houses near the FL coast is a pretty bad idea. When I was a kid the only older houses I recall seeing near the beach were ones made out of concrete and cinder blocks. None of the newer McMansions they built ever since will stand a chance. 

Wow, he bragged about having enough gasoline to refill fewer than 10,000 cars and enough diesel to fill fewer than 2,500 semi trucks, in a state of 22 million people?

$10k for a 13 year old NGV that would be a pain to refill for most people?

It was me. I’m sorry. I started the 28 car pileup at Talladega. I only looked down to change the radio station for a second, I swear!

And to someone willing to spend $377k a year just to skip traffic congestion those extra costs would mean absolutely nothing to their wallet.

If you’re curious how corporate profits have changes the last 20 years and what they’ve looked during the covid inflation boom:

Exactly. Buying power has decreased SIGNIFICANTLY since the 80's. (Thanks Ronald Reagan!) Inflation continues to outpace wages at rampant pace. There’s a reason my parents could afford 2 new cars, a mortgage on a nice home and provide for 4 children, including yearly vacations, on 1 mailman salary. I make roughly the…

Thats nice.  Doesnt look like others were so lucky.

A typical household might have been paying the phone company $50-100/mo plus more for additional lines and fees for more services (call waiting - extra, and dont get me started on per minute long distance charges).

While the smart phone and internet obviously weren’t available for purchase, do you have any actual data that people weren’t making tons of frivolous purchases 30 years ago? They still had store catalogues getting mailed out, door to door salesmen, and the home shopping network to buy random stuff from. McDonalds &…

Inflation adjusted dollars doesn’t show the real problem with car affordability today.

Well yeah, but I meant the current iteration.