Maybe it is time to switch to communities built not around cars?
Maybe we could have 4 days weeks and more work-at-home to save gas?
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2026
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Weird. Something in the US is becoming unaffordable. That’s wild.
wHy Do mIlLeNnIaLs HaTe ThE aUtO iNdUsTrY
So let in the 10,000$ Toyota EV1 and the like.
i WANT a new car. the apr is insane.
This is another big factor. Stealerships have learned that as long as the monthly payment looks low they can charge whatever interest they want, and not mention it until after Americans have signed on the doted line.
Edit: Anecdotally, a friend of mine bought a NEW CAR because she was worried she was spending too much on paying off her current one. The monthly payment went down, so she was all smiles. I don't have numbers, but she must have been close to paying that first car off. But hey she's "saving" $150 a month!
We've been watching the slow motion disaster caused by the poorly thought out CAFE standards for years now. Why the fuck is nobody talking about reforming them. They have fully backfired, why keep them at all.
Also the tariff on Chinese EVs. If we're going to fuck over every other American to subsidize the manufacturing sector why are we doing it to subsidize making stuff that sucks instead of subsidizing manufacturing stuff that doesn't suck.
Why are they worried when the government will just bail them out again?
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