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Of course I would like for things to be further along then they are.... but in a way I am also glad they are not...
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Glad they're
not? Hey... I AM
STILL WAITING ON MY FLYING CARS. Popular Science promised me I would have one by now, back when I was a child. Heartless b*st*rds...
I had a very long conversation with a gentleman today when I filled up the Insight, and the inevitable price of gas came up... he bemoaned his 18-mpg-highway SUV, which he
needed to transport his family (although I noticed, but did not mention, he was driving alone, with seven empty seats). His brother travels to Europe frequently with his English wife, and the $7-8 per gallon price range is causing his inlaws across the pond to virtually park their vhicles and either walk or take public transportation. I just wonder when the USA will hit the wall and begin to turn away from low-mileage vehicles and more towards gas misers... $6 a gallon? $7? $8? So far, it doesn;t seem to make a difference. I know it's a relatively-small percentage of the total cost of driving (when you plug in depreciation, upkeep, storage, insurance, et al), but still...
His choice is to pay thousands of dollars to get a more economical vehicle (while his gas-guzzler takes a trade-in hit), or stay with what he has, and pay more for gas. He will keep his car, doing the calculus that the thousands of dollars he would have to invest in a gas-saver will cover many, many
gallons of more expensive gas before he has to make that choice. I love that whole head-in-the-sand attitude... but what are you gonna do...
