An accident

[phaz0rz]

Originally Posted by agent006140

Not sure it is such a great idea to ride in other people's car,once the guy who took me to appt said he has blood cancer,coming back,the lady raises chicken in her backyard and sells the eggs.
Upon returning home,I dont feel too well.
Inspection these days cost $90

I don't like riding in vehicles that I'm not driving but the used car industry isn't all that dangerous. Spray some Lysol or something if you're afraid of contagious blood cancer and/or livestock.

[agent006140]

How do you walk into a Lyft dRIVER car and start spraying?

[phaz0rz]

Oh my bad, I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you meant you're against buying used cars because of germs.


I've never used lyft or uber but I hear it's the norm now among younger people. A large portion of Gen Z aren't even interested in getting drivers licenses. It's strange.

[agent006140]

where did you hear that?No driver license?
Maybe they cant afford to buy a car?plus auto insurance,also parking

[phaz0rz]

On the internet. In the 80's half of all 16 year olds had a license. In the 2020's it's fallen to ~25%.


Cost is probably a small factor but I think a bigger one is technology. Kids stay inside all day now with no interest in going outside, much less traveling.

[agent006140]

The Chinese government once said kids coming home from school spent too much time in front of a PC or machine playing games,they are becoming too? and who is going to defend the country some day,so it wants to cut back on the hours they can spend in front of a machine !
The same can be said about us,if we dont know the internal of an auto,do not drive or fill gas and change oil,and one day the government need to call on some of us,we dont know how to operate a machine,drive a vehicle,carry sandbag?
or COOK?

[phaz0rz]

I agree with that. Just look around in public. A large % of people under 25 are now pudgy and pasty white like they've never been exposed to the sun, when they should be living the most active part of their life. All anyone cares about is the next Grand Theft Auto game.


Take away the gaming console and replace it with a drill press, and the US would be doing much better as a whole.

[rsot]

AI needs to become self-aware very soon and end the tech era...

[agent006140]

Originally Posted by phaz0rz

I don't like riding in vehicles that I'm not driving but the used car industry isn't all that dangerous. Spray some Lysol or something if you're afraid of contagious blood cancer and/or livestock.

Car dealers attend auction,those which are meant for car dealers,not retail customers like us,not sure if those cars are cleaned up first ,but car dealers usually do some touch up before putting them up for sale,they make more money reselling those cars than selling new cars

[agent006140]

Originally Posted by rsot

So in the end, she blew past her "budget" of 15K - meh, best of luck to her.

I feel very uncomfortable when I hear people take on so much debt just to buy a car ,to me a car is meant to take you from one place to another,getting all the trims and push the cheapest car to $50k,makes me wonder what does the driver do while driving,and wonder if this is why we have accidents?
I can see subscribing to software which helps you drive better or avoid accident,but these days you can talk,play games,listen to music,news,weather and watch film clips??
BTW,auto makers do not recommend eating in your car! while driving

[phaz0rz]

Originally Posted by rsot

AI needs to become self-aware very soon and end the tech era...

It's just a complicated python script at the end of the day.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by agent006140

I feel very uncomfortable when I hear people take on so much debt just to buy a car ,to me a car is meant to take you from one place to another,getting all the trims and push the cheapest car to $50k,makes me wonder what does the driver do while driving,and wonder if this is why we have accidents?
I can see subscribing to software which helps you drive better or avoid accident,but these days you can talk,play games,listen to music,news,weather and watch film clips??
BTW,auto makers do not recommend eating in your car! while driving

What's the most amount of debt you have taken on agent?

[agent006140]

The early TSLA EV buyers,many are young folks when they see their friends driving an EV,they want one too,term is 6 years,some said 8?
Then they found out tires do not last long and need to be replaced.

Even tho it does not eat gas,the city.state is charging them $25/monthly as they are not getting their share of a cut when we fill our gas tank.
btw,Autozone reported lower earnings as people save money and skip car repair

[rsot]

What's that bill $25 monthly classified as?

[agent006140]

I dont remember the exact name,it is to compensate the city from the loss of revenue derived from driver filling up his gas tank. at the gas station.

[phaz0rz]

Originally Posted by agent006140

Autozone reported lower earnings as people save money and skip car repair

I doubt Teslas are popular enough to impact Autozone like that. I've only ever seen like 3 in my whole life.

[agent006140]

Autozone problem is not EV,it is the ICE drivers saving money by not repairing,postponing or do it yourself.
EV owners have to replace their tires sooner due to the heavy batteries.
Diesel is $9 in California,we have not build any new refinery in the last 70 years??
Every time I go on the road,I see around 3 TSLAs,and I even see cybertruck.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by agent006140

Diesel is $9 in California,we have not build any new refinery in the last 70 years??

Why would a new refinery be needed?

[phaz0rz]

Unpopular opinion - Trump has intentionally done everything possible to raise oil prices, because American oil fields become unprofitable if the bulk price drops too low. He was out in the open about it during his first term.


I'm glad the oil farmers are doing better but it's sort of devastating for the rest of the economy.

[agent006140]

Originally Posted by rsot

Why would a new refinery be needed?

Did you read?we have a bottleneck in refined fuel as there are not enough refineries ?Refineries have down time for service and maintenance and all of them are old antiques.
Mexico is worse,they dont have enough refineries,so they sell crude but buy refined fuel.
China is the one which has those what they called 'teapots??they are small refineries owned by entrepreuners which serve local markets.
Europe is worse,they dont even have crude except the North Seas,so they bought from the Russian.
But they do have coal and nuclear energy.
SE Asia is worse,India is in bad shape but at least they can come up with the money to buy,Sri Lanka does not have the fund.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by agent006140

Did you read?

I have read but your posts have been scrunchy and a bit all over with the references as of late :(

Now you're talking about multiple countries and refineries and state of the market...tough to understand the focus and the experience of yours with these markets

[agent006140]

I am trying to answer your question on refinery,we have not built any new refinery,neither have other nations except China .
thats why we have shortage of refined fuel.
We Americans love to travel,I am just about to leave my home so I CAN drive,drive,drive and I expect traffic will be heavy even thought it is still early