Besides, there is this thing called “Uber” which allows you to party without putting your life at risk. Uber also comes in handy when you are in your seasoned years as well.
Yes, and here in NJ the insurance is so high for young drivers that a part-time job won’t let you pay for gas AND insurance at the same time...and that insurance stays high until they are 25.
At the same time, a beater looks good when the alternative is public transportation (for school or work, as opposed to the sporadic use of Uber etc.).
NJ tried hard to get people out of cars and onto mass transit, but failed miserably; too many escapees from NYC who are determined to drive their own vehicles. Now they raised the gas tax because we weren’t driving ENOUGH (with the ChiCom virus and people working remotely). They are missing their budgeted gas tax targets, so it went up $.09 per gallon to screw those still driving...
When they built exit 15X on the NJ Turnpike they intended for people to arrive on one train or bus and continue on another; they didn’t want it to be a park & ride. When nobody showed up and the vendors complained that it was a ghost town, they added a bunch of parking and voila - people showed up - in cars.