As much as I despise Musk (but not Tesla), I am really glad that I’m not a business owner right now. Every crevice of the economy is affected. People’s entire businesses decimated. It’s crushing. Musk has a huge platform to sound off his loud mouth, but I am willing to bet (because I also read news and have it on good…

Considering that I hate society and commuting, I’ve honestly never been better

Your choice when buying an EV is “support Elon” or “support companies making tons of unacceptably high-emission cars”. I went with the Bolt on price, but let’s not pretend other car companies are perfect actors either.

Trucks aren’t the penalty boxes that they used to be. Even as late as the 00s, trucks were a decent compromise: they had less interior space, they were slow, they had terrible, bouncy rides, they drank gasoline, and they were pretty loud. Just overall, they were terrible.

This is a Truck Yeah article right?

You’re also forgetting that pickups can handle shitty roads better than any car can.

This is great news! I love that my current truck has retained almost all of the initial buy price 3 years into ownership, and that increased demand will make it that much better when I sell this one for the next.

Here’s the thing...when did we really close? All that happened is that people started going to Wal-Mart for everything instead of local businesses, which were forced to close. The virus still got into nursing homes, hospitals, and all the at-risk places. The stated point of the lockdown was to avoid overwhelming our…

YOU can listen to whomever you want and assess the risk to whatever metrics you value. I am lobbying for YOU to stay in doors and MYSELF the freedom to choose when I am in public. Right now that choice has been heavily restricted.

It’s ok to like some parts of Elon’s brain and not others. I don’t like most of what he tweets, but I can appreciate Tesla cars and Space X. I can also appreciate his frustration that’s shared with a lot of the people in the country right now, including me. I think the shutdown was warranted at first, but we need to…

Electric vehicles do not suit the driving style of most non-coastal Americans. End of story.

Step one is to stop conflating EV with self-driving.

For one thing not everybody is financially hardened by the pandemic. Those who are not will take advantage of the better interest rates to purchase more car/truck. I don’t see how that is a bad thing if they want more truck, more tech, bigger engine etc. A lot of people here, readers and writers alike, seem to feel…

Pretty simple, if you’re living paycheck to paycheck, buy a 2-3k dollar used car.

Adjust your withholding on your taxes. Getting a return means that you accidentally overpaid over the previous year, instead of having that money immediately available. Especially if it was enough to cover 2.5 years of car payments.

This, my friends, is why you always start with enough down payment so that you are never, ever trapped in a negative equity situation.

Yeah, the “truck hatred” is strong.... they have no idea that most light and medium duty sales are actually into “fleet” applications. Whether it’s electricians, dry-wallers, farmers... the vast majority go to work, doing real work.

“LOP at a real farmer moving produce with a light duty pickups. 300 round trips with an open bed later and his produce has all rotted.”

Don’t worry- all the people who don’t actually work in anything that needs trucks will log in here with statistics to tell you why if they were you they wouldn’t buy a truck.

You do realize that a lot of people actually work for a living and need trucks, right? That Kale salad you are eating was grown by a farmer that needed a truck. That structure you are living in was built by contractors that needed a truck. The internet you are using to post was installed by a person who was driving a…