If only we had invented and built some sort of alternative mode of collective transportation. Maybe it could be in tunnels and ride on metallic rails. It would serve many people and make periodic stops to the same locations instead of the highway clusterf- we have today. Sad that we don’t, but a man can dream though. A man can dream.

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      Why do we only blame trump?

      There’s bi-partisan support for making sure China can’t sell its EVs in the US, even though they cost $15k and have 300km range.

      Meanwhile we have dumbasses buying teslas saying “they didn’t get ripped off.”

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    Fake News. All my homies can’t wait to go sixty goddamn thousand dollars in debt to by a house-sized . . I wanna say . . truck?

    Me though, been pulling extra shifts - got my eye on that $90,000 volvo EV. Mmmm! You basically can’t afford NOT to buy it!

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      If I had the money lying around I’d totally buy a midlife crisis car. A v8, automatic coupe style with a real healthy rumble to it. I drive less than 3k miles/year, and barely travel far enough to make the lowest end of the fuel efficiency range. You know the kind of car that says “yeah this car is for fun, and that dude is probably not alright”.

      But I have class so at minimum I’m looking at burning $60k on like a used Lexus RC F.

      Like come the fuck on you know? Even if I ponied up “half” that cost, the 5 year loan runs $700/mo. $700. Who the absolute fuck has a monthly extra $700 just sitting there right now AND that mystery $30k I mentioned.

      Are people just not able to math?

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        No, they are not. That’s why a significant number of students fail math classes. The number of children who cannot even perform basic 7th-grade math is shockingly high. Then, they discover that they will pass even if they fail, so they relax and blame the teachers when their parents see their grades.

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        I wouldn’t buy that just based off their fucking terrible website design

        that shit’s basically unusable, can’t even scroll through it on mobile

        also wow another crossover, what’s so special about this one? I’m only asking because the website wouldn’t fucking tell me without flashing all sorts of shit at me

        *oh wait that’s actually an SUV, body on frame