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11y ago
If you look online you will see that most batteries have a estimated mileage of 100k-150k before total replacement is needed. Most Lexus hybrids warrantees end at 100k. If you are running a fleet of cars or ride sharing yours all day when y
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> cycle of poverty is strong in these rural locations because of the lack of public transportation Because? Really? Because someone has to buy a car? I think your feelings are in the way of your cognitive ability. >of low-income peopl
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11y ago
So the core of it is; the ROI is irrelevant, it's value was the prevention of job loss and market failures. Now you see why I'm not excited and jumping for joy when people spin it as a profitable investment. It never was a money m
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11y ago
If 60% of the fleet is trucks and trucks are rarely purchased for explicitly moving humans and instead purchased for the moving of things. Rideshare already only has 40% of the market to convince to sell their car and perpetually rent on de
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>Many, many people already do this on public transport Total fantasy. Virtually nobody uses public transport. 5% of commuters use public transport. Relative to the car-pooling, who sees double the volume of users as public transport, 10%
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11y ago
Imagine if you owned 10 rental properties, were a plumber, an electrician, a basketball coach or had almost any job other than something in the tech industry. You would use your truck/van/large SUV for hauling trash, wire, sports
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>$2,000 might as well be $4,500 might as well be a million dollars I can only imagine how silly you are trying to be!
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11y ago
Debt: 6 years to realize the savings on the interest? It nearly took GM that long to repay the debt they took on. It's sounding like a worse investment all the time. OTJ Experience: I think it's less speculative and lines less wea
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11y ago
>autonomous cars become ubiquitous then why would you bother owning your own? Anything requiring a truck (60% of new vehicle sales) will not be something that you use as a automated vehicle that is for rent. You really are ok with orderi
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11y ago
>The US Treasury made a ~ $2.4 billion profit on a $17.2 billion investment Factor in the interest USA would have saved by paying down the national debt instead. Additionally, consider what private investors would have returned with the
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11y ago
You have reframed the argument! To use your analogy; You didn't have a flat tire, you had a bent frame! A collision specialist will charge a greater rate for services than a local tire shop because; the tooling is greater and the staff
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>In the end, though, they ascribe it all to their "hard work" and ignore those things -- condemning those less fortunate. Mostly like privileged stable upper middle class students do. What a caustic statement! Blinded by this m
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I'm sympathetic to your expense... I would also like to remind you of the operating costs. Not only trained professionals on staff 24/7 standing by to serve your wife when she has an asthma attack. The equipment, tooling and infra
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11y ago
"If you always have your phone on you..." How is this clearly not a deal-breaking problem? Tons of people don't have their phone on them 24/7. Lets just say I lost my phone. Now I want to log into iTunes to use the find
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>We're overvaluing SQFT, and way undervaluing land This is exactly it! We are seeing a ton of individuals who are not wealthy, even if they have a strong income. They are buying into the idea of paying these crazy rent prices to sta
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11y ago
Great post. The only add I can include is; what good is fighting hard for a piece of nothing? You aren't going to milk much out of this as it is. Stay on good terms! Maybe the idea isn't there yet, maybe it will blow up in 5 years
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11y ago
> It's like all the internet's heroes got together in one room for a photo op. That's about all they do. Market themselves, hype, clickbait and spam their brand. Nice to see all the internet meme brands in one room, it
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11y ago
...yeah. I was just thinking the same thing.
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>If you’re over 62, your odds of having at least $1 million in net wealth (your total assets minus your total debt) are relatively achievable -- about 1 in 7. But if you are under 40, your odds are low: 1 in 55. So the older you are the
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11y ago
Moral of the story in this comment section; Negative comments about Tesla will be down voted upon detection.
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11y ago
"make (something that was previously illegal) permissible by law." Try again...
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11y ago
While true, it's not a valid reason for preventing progress on the deconstruction of marriage. 'Our system is messy and complicated, so if we add more variables, it will be an even bigger mess!' - so make the system less mess
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12y ago
> An event happened to me once. > All events occur this way. So this is what happens when you try to inject sex and gender into every aspect of life.
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12y ago
1) LOL @ this website. 2) LOL @ Being a post that is only there to be ended with Obama rallying. 3) LOL @ forgetting your post in 2009 and realizing that your new post forgets the tenants of your old post. http://bridgetcampos.bl