1075 Followers
472 Following
Magazine editor. Rugby old boy. Bike rider. Book geek. Bear. Proud resident of America’s Zion. Opinions my own.
Since the 1960s, car maintenance costs have outstripped inflation, with recent years especially providing a large cost increase. www.officialdata.org/Motor-vehicl...
Car maintenance costing $500 in 1968 is equivalent to $5,991.56 in 2023.
Cars are not fungible - most Americans cannot live without them. They are just more burdened by them than average before. Also: www.reuters.com/business/aut...
U.S. and Canada auto sales could decline by 1.8 million vehicles this year and be stagnant over the next decade if the global trade war escalates, a Detroit-area automotive advisory firm forecasts.
The all known defects of that particular model aside, it really wasn’t. The average cost per mile of a vehicle in 1985 was 22 cents, btw.
The little maintenance things you used to do were easy and cheap. Now, you are much more likely to face a single catastrophically expensive repair that mechanically totals a car.
The average American car now costs $46k and the average payment is $742. Most Americans can’t afford a new car and can’t afford to repair an old one. The trade off works great if you are comfortable, but the working poor used to be able to keep cars running for relatively cheap.
Reliability is better, but another reason we don’t worry about them because we can’t do much of them anymore without access to proprietary software and tools. Car manufacturers have worked for years to design products that can’t be fixed by home mechanics.
im really not joking about this. democrats need to pledge to tear down the ballroom. tear. it. down. not refurb or repurpose. tear it down. feel free to recycle the material, but it must be torn down.
Trump wouldn’t be planning to defile the White House, a National Historic Landmark, with a gigantic, garish golden ballroom if he was ever planning to leave.
This season is their first at Daybreak
It’s just straight-up white supremacy at this point.
Brooke Rollins leaves open the possibility that the Trump administration might try to ban native born Chinese-Americans from buying farmland
A Salt Lake Bees game went from being a cheap and easy fun thing to do at a central city stadium that you could reach by light rail to something that requires you to fork over a small fortune at an expensive new stadium in a far suburb that’s meant to anchor an “entertainment district.”
