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    1 year ago

    It’s the new keeping up with the Joneses. We can’t afford houses or new cars so what’s next?

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      1 year ago

      To be fair, I’d have no idea why you’d want a brand new car anyways. They are inferior to older cars and just help with creating more waste.

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        1 year ago

        A few years ago it was major safety upgrades for me. I do agree generally that buying new just because is not a good thing. In the next few years though I suspect it’s going to be a gas cost thing with a large switch to electrics. (Where I live the cost of gas has risen 60 cents in the last 2 months against a national average increase of 10 cents.)

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          1 year ago

          Asian makes and models have always gotten great gas mileage to begin with though, especially within the last thirty years. Hybrids for the most part have only brought good gas mileage to american manufacturers, but even then the Asian ones are still better than this.

          That being said though, there’s no real evidence that hybrids are significantly better for the environment considering many drivers still use combustion for propulsion along with the fact that the electricity in the battery tends to be charged on coal power.

          Electric cars are the future, but the state of electric cars right now are a serious mess due to manufacturer greed.

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            1 year ago

            Oh yeah I’m not going to pretend electrics are perfect. Just that it’s going to go that way.