Posted on 09/25/2021 12:02:31 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Bummer. I supplement my retirement income by driving for Doordash, which I love. I havea reliable Prius, though, so that helps.
Trump won and that still didn’t overcome the cheating.
Troll.
I hadn’t heard that. We kinda thought that this will be my wife’s last car, so our estate can settle that. She has only put 250 miles on it in seven weeks. The EPA says that it saves $4,000 in fuel costs in 100,000 miles. It goes for $11,000 more than the conventional engine model, but we get $9,000 in state and federal tax credits and rebates. The electric model is smoother, quieter and more powerful. Even in hybrid mode it gets 38 mpg. Thing is, even if there is shortage of gasoline because of distribution problems, we can still get to the grocery store.
I worked with a guy who commuted about 100 miles round trip every day. After 250,000 trouble-free miles his Prius crapped out. He didn’t have to pay for a disposal fee. Not yet anyway. He bought a second Prius.
“There’s enough fuel at the refineries and terminals to supply the normal demand. What we have at the moment is abnormal demand where everyone is rushing to fill up their vehicles.”
The veneer of our society is quite thin. All you have to do is scare the city people and the supply lines snap. Keep that in mind as you prepare for 3 more years of Democrat tyranny in the USA.
It is high sticker + dealer mark up, $11,000 more than the conventional model, but I get a $7500 federal tax credit and $1500 state rebate, so the price increment is only $2000 and it’s a quieter, smoother and more powerful car.
I’m rural and there’s no doordash here but I did sign up for WeLook but they don’t pay much and all we had was full size trucks at the time.
“...it’s a quieter, smoother and more powerful car.”
Then what?
I knew that when he praised Biden winning the Fauxi election.
The politicians have long known that a very good way to create panic and to take the folks’ minds off what’s really happening is to restrict the fuel that powers their cars by which they go to work, buy food, visit family, pursue leisure time activities.
During the contrived 1973 gas panic in the USA we thought of little else. I owned a Pontiac station wagon at the time which needed a fill up just waiting in line to buy gas. I traded it in for a Corolla just a few weeks before the fake crisis ended.
I’m sure uncle joe, with the few hundred or so remaining functioning synapses that he has left, realizes that he can pull the same stunt if the folks get out of line.
Than the $11,000 dollar least expensive conventional Rav4. We (my wife, me passenger) test drove one. I have yet to drive the one we purchased, but my wife really liked it. I have ridden in it as a passenger, and it is quiet and smooth. It really is a better car. Without the tax incentives and state rebates (9,000 total) I am not sure I would have gone the extra 11k, but it really is a better car, just maybe not 11k better. It also gets better gas mileage than the conventional in hybrid mode.
Pay a little more, and you’ll have a glut of “HGV” (heavy goods vehicle) drivers.
I get so tired of this BS. It’s always used as a reason to bring in low class immigrants.
I always buy my choice of a car fully optioned (iow all factory packages). I picked up a 2021 Lexus LS350 with the Luxury package, panorama S/R etc and it cost me a tad over $50,000.
From what I see the RAV 4 top of the line is about $50k as well and I think you said it has an additional dealer mark up as well. Even with the tax credit which is no good if you pay little or no taxes due to smart management of investments it seems for comfort and and luxury on longer trips and resale value the Lexus is a better value.
I’m not the typical driver since I only drive about 3500 miles per year and seldom keep my cars past 4 yrs so I lose the most % in that time but still my cars always bring me top dollar + because of the low, low mileage and pristine shape I keep them in. But I wonder about the resale on the RAV Hybrid because of the high cost of the battery replacement.
We’re rural, too, but there is a suburban area nearby. Have you considered doing Shipt ot Instacart?
We have a 30MPG car for transporting large objects, a Smart Car for trips around town with my wife but the vast amount of my travel is on my 125cc motor scooter. I spend about 5 Euros per week on gas.
Come back tomorrow.
Automated electric trucks will be everywhere shortly. The “disruption” will be geometrically fast, not linear. It will be especially fast for long haul trucking. The trailers will be hauled by robot tractors for 500 miles, then swapped onto a freshly charged tractor for another 500 miles if needed. These loads will be moving between those huge distribution/warehouse centers, so the automation will easily handle the endpoints. Deliveries and pickups at random locations will take a little longer, but not much.
If you are a long haul trucker, don’t depend on inter distribution/warehouse loads for your income — it is as good as gone.
Didn’t Bernie say that lines and shortages were a “good thing”?
“Coming to Amerika.”
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Shortages of all kinds of things on the way. Like motor oil. How does that happen? They are blaming lack of drivers for limiting deliveries, but I don’t buy it.
Yeah, let’s bring in some below 80 IQ illegal to drive around 9000 gallons of gasoline in an 80,000 pound truck.
Hope none decide to alley ackbar a school.🇺🇸
“As well as gift stamps that went into little booklets to accumulate and then trade for things like lamps, card tables and other fabulous things.”
Green Stamps had quite the racket back in the day, I remember they even had stores for you to cash in - and Save!
But I always thought Duz detergent had the best one - selling you a box half-filled by a dish, with detergent as packing.
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