Posted on 05/28/2016 6:28:16 AM PDT by bray
Got to love Craigslist.
You are the exception to the rule. How would you ever commute kids to all of their events? I like bicycles, but they are not made for transportation.
People packed tightly into urban cities are easy to control.
People spread out across the suburbs and rural areas are hard to control.
How do you get people to move from outlying areas into cities? Restring transportation—specifically cars.
It’s about control.
Old fashioned liberals believed in imposing sane priorities on concerns and looking for where God wanted them to go.
Modern illiberal “liberals” (the liberals of old would hoot at what they do) want to make everything a priority, YOUR priority, and go where the devil wants them to go.
It hasn’t seriously hurt suburbia or the rural yet.
One son is a mechanic/fabricator. We’ve done four timing belts in the last year, one of which was because it broke -the others for maintenance. The Tundra 5.7 (built in San Antonio) has a timing chain. Three of my kids work at ski resorts, and I commute 15 miles on the slab daily. Michelin XLT’s all around. Got’s to have wheels out west.
But how would I get to Wally World? Are they going to start a fleet of city buses for the sake of shopping them?
No, but when Obama talks about $5.00 gas this is one of the reasons.
I haven’t figured out a way to put 20 bales of hay on a bike...and work is 25 miles away. 30 minutes by car. Taking a vacation next week. Going to Utah. So we’ll get in the car...
“The only need for a car is to drive to work but car-pooling can eliminate that rationale as well.”
You can car-pool without a car?
And some of us don’t work the same hours every day.
I’m guessing you LIKE living very close to a lot of people.
I have been using a product called Startron in my older vehicles. It seems to help keep the damage caused by ethanol down. I also add a gallon of 100 LL avgas per tank too.
There are a lot less “liberals” than there are car owners.
Snicker snicker... I too thought about the no-car car pooling.
The people who buy smart cars don’t know how to turn a screwdriver. I know a guy who paid a plumber $150 to change out a hose bib. I did one the same week for $2.00
I couldn’t imagine being unable to fix stuff
We have swing out windows at home. One of them stripped a gear. I looked at it, found the brand name, looked them up online and ordered the part.
I had absolutely no clue how to do the repair, so I looked at the part really close and figured it out. It took all of ten minutes. I can’t imagine what it would have cost to have a window guy out.
The problem with public transportation is that it is not for the public. Rural people pay higher taxes and get less bang for the buck than the socialist centers called cities. Where does the “road tax” go? It pays for socialized “public transportation” that rural people pay for the freeloaders in the cities to use.
Look into UN agenda 21 AKD agenda 2030
You nailed it! All toltarian governments have kept their populations confined to cities. The only way in or out is by trains run by the government. That is why libs love trains.
Not just cars-
-Appliances, especially HVAC.
-Homes (look at your growing building code)
-Yard care (you might be in a state where only chemicals that don’t work can be used)
-Toilets
-Light bulbs
-Time (daylight savings)
Just about everything in the average person’s life is under assault.
Cars used to cost about 10% the average annual income. Now it’s over 50.
As someone starting out, you could work to improve your life by starting w/all the cheap stuff, save, and get the better things later.
Now you can’t even get off the ground because it’s too expensive.
Note more and more kids living w/parents.
Only going to get worse. No more upward mobility.
Only place I felt I didn’t need a car was in NYC. Never bothered renting one when there on biz. Had family that never owned one there too.
Anywhere else - fuggedaboutit.
“I can’t imagine what it would have cost to have a window guy out.”
I have a rental house with a siding glass door that does not slide. I went to YouTube and entered “sliding glass door rollers” and the top video showed how to replace them. (It is not obvious from looking at the door as you can’t see them and the door would not come out of the track.)
I bought an antiknock sensor, which the code machine I bought told me was the problem. Having the sensor in my hand and knowing approximately where it went, I could not find it. I went to YouTube and some awesome (Oh, God I love him!) guy had made a video on how to change it. The first thing he said was it was difficult to find but, (Close up) here it is. I had it changed in fifteen minutes.
You can YouTube almost anything and somebody has shot a how-to, many of which beat the professionals in clarity.
Note to YouTube video makers. Please turn off the music while you are demonstrating the repair.
I generally drive a 01 Sierra. Last GM car I will ever purchase in a long line. You’d think after 100 years of building pickups, GM could have gotten some things right. Like the steering intermediate shaft (lost count of how many times they revised it - I stopped replacing it and lived with the clunk after replacement #2), the driveshaft slip yoke (same story), cancerous rust on the body and frame despite regular washing and waxing, heater core that requires the entire dash to be removed just to get to it. I could write a whole page on little things that regularly go wrong with the 00-06 pickups.
I will say the LS engine has been bulletproof, although noisy with the “GM says it’s normal” piston slap. OTOH, I’m on the third rebuild of the transmission.
Also have an 02 Sebring convertible that’s more of a toy and currently not on the road. Too many other things to do right now.
We also have a ‘13 Escape we bought off a lease. Too many doodads for my taste. I got an extended Ford warranty for the length of the loan. I have a bunch of specialized GM and Chrysler tools. I’m not about to invest in a Ford set too unless I plan on opening my own garage. By the time it’s off the loan, it will either be too unreliable to drive, or the Internet will be full of fixes that I can do myself and used tools I can get cheaper.
What annoys me about the newer cars isn’t so much that they’re not fixable, but that you need to spend almost what the car costs to obtain the tools required to diagnose the simplest of problems, and then the solution is always to throw expensive dealer-only parts at it. Very few things on modern cars actually get “fixed” anymore. You just replace parts that shouldn’t have broken in the first place.
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