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.
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.
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.
Ralph Nader was a communist in lust with Big Government; "Consumer Reports" magazine was a purveyor of crap reviews conducted and written by people who didn't know WTF they were doing.
Also, Ralph Nader prevented President Gore (accidentally).
There is a large parking lot where a shopping center used to be a few miles from my house. There are 1,000 - 1,500 Teslas sitting in this abandoned parking lot. They keep them charged. I keep waiting for the lot to go up in flames. They’ve been there at least a couple of years.
When my dash warning light comes on telling me to service the airbag, I think of my ex-wife.
Stacking ‘em deep and selling ‘em cheap.
Sure worked out swell that the all powerful Zentral Union Government got preserved.