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Why is car a luxury? A clunker car worth $2000 will still work fine for years with minor maintenance that can be done by yourself. Oh, yeah. Cities. Cars are e
by cyberax 11mo ago
Why is car a luxury? A clunker car worth $2000 will still work fine for years with minor maintenance that can be done by yourself.
Oh, yeah. Cities. Cars are expensive when you live in a 100 sq. ft. box.
Perhaps that's what is causing problems?
- JambalayaJimbo 11mo agoThe cost of the car itself is minimal compared to insurance, gas and storage costs.
- Waterluvian 11mo agoA competently planned city makes car ownership unnecessary.
- cyberax 11mo agoA competently planned _country_ makes cities that only seem to create generational poverty unnecessary.
- energy123 11mo agoSprawl comes from urban planning. I think you mean to say a certain approach to planning makes it unnecessary.
- tlb 11mo agoThere's no way to plan a city so most people can walk to a Costco. Warehouse stores are an inherently car-based phenomenon.
- Dylan16807 11mo agoThey don't require everyone to own a car. At the very least, they can run an efficient delivery service. And there's got to be a way to make a 3 hour rental or single taxi drive once a month much cheaper than owning a car.
- doublepg23 11mo agoThe $2000 daily driver died with covid.