Posted on 12/12/2023 11:16:53 AM PST by Red Badger
Zero pity for car dealers and that’s not even including my “market adjustment”.
Surprise. Fed.gov engages in Chinese-style, neo-marxist central planning. And fails. With unexpected side-effects
wash, rinse, repeat.
We crossed over into overt government force with the passing of Obamacare. Then there was the Fauci Ouchy. Now cars. Then gas appliances.
I bought a new 2008 Nissan Frontier in 2009 that was leftover. Guess what was coming next on the economic front.
Charging an electric is equal to paying $17.33 per gallon.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_a609f8aa-7443-11ee-83d3-df5b22909078.html
bttt
I beg everyone’s forgiveness in the client cult. I purchased a large gas guzzling
F-150 last week.
It was my company car which was replaced with a large gas guzzling F-150.
This is a great endorsement for capitalism and its main tenent of the invisible hand of the economy. Socialism doesn’t work.
They need to take a whole bunch of crap off of them and sell a reduced price good basic car. Stepping back 20 years would be a good idea. Even further back, the Buick Roadmaster in the B body has been unequaled for mileage, comfort and safety in the last 30 years. The Ford Panther platform of the Grand Marquis is about as refined automobile design as you can get. 25 to 27 mpg, 75 mph and you can drive it all day long comfortably. It may look like a granddad car but it will out run most junk today. I still have my ‘08 work car.
Are we not seeing classic fascism here where the government directs and controls private industry? Where did the car manufacturers get the idea that people wanted electric cars? Did the government mandate the manufacturing of electric cars and trucks? Asking for a friend.
Utter, complete fake news. Car inventories are still only a third of their pre-covid levels, which at the time was an absolutely, unprecedented low: about 90% below normal levels.
One of the most contrived examples is the fake metric MPGe. For example, according to the federal govt my EV gets 114 MPGe combined city/hwy. So the car makers making EV's get to average that sky high fake 114 MPG into their fleet average to meet the CAFE standards.
I'm not slamming EV's from a free market perspective. Our EV car meets our needs and wants and saves us tons of gas (we drive a lot of miles, a necessary characteristic to make owning an EV worth it in the end). We also like our ICE pickup for what it brings to the table. But I have a real problem with the government twisting every regulation imaginable to force EV's onto people who have no need for them.
At a men’s function at church last month I sat at a table with a 35 year veteran in car sales.
He stated the dealerships are marking up the price of ICE vehicles to offset what they are loosing in lack of EV sales.
Just when I thought car dealerships couldn’t get more lowlife and despicable they go and prove me wrong.
A state managed market never works. Case in point.
I had “zero pity” for the car dealer I bought my last new car from 2 1/2 years ago. I got such a great deal that the car is still worth what I paid for it.
That’s the first time THAT ever happened.
That’s basic economics...............
In the news this week a man had bought an eight year old electric car for $16,000 and had it for a year or so when the battery needed to be replaced...for $24,000
Insane.
The government can be the lender to finance the mandated EV. Then you can pay for the rest of your life citizen/slave for the freedom to travel. Electricity rates to charge your EV will be set for each individual based on your social credit score.
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