God I pray for $6 a gallon gas to teach these fools a lesson.
Sadly it seems to all be going the wrong way.
It must be a miserable way to go through life, hoping for others’ misfortune for the grave sin of doing something you don’t agree with.
I know being anti-truck is one of the 10 commandments around here, but in a lot of ways a truck is a pretty thrifty purchase:
-expensive to buy but hold their value well
-cheap to run compared with other vehicles in the price class
-much more fuel efficient than they used to be
-extremely durable, they last a long long time
-useful for many different tasks
-high correlation between truck ownership and DIY activities
lol, every car will become worth $0 at some point, they ALL depreciate given enough time.
they are NOT cheap to run, its been proven by MMM himself... everything on them is more expensive. A $70,000 truck goes the same 200,000 miles as two $5,000 cars with 100,000 miles on them each. That right there is 30 cents a mile cost to drive in depreciation difference alone from Mustachian level car ownership (and those truck repairs will be much more pricey, even if fewer)
fuel efficient? really, compared to what? Not to a 25-35mpg mid-size car, which you can fit a lot of shit in. and on the super rare occasion one legitimately needs a truck it can be rented (buy the car that suits 95% of your car needs, not 5%).
DIY? Around where I live and work I see its mostly white collar dudes (who cant park the thing into our compact car parking spots) who still hire out to have everything in their house (you can tell when their contractor shows up in the NON- lookatme pickemup truck, the molly maid too)
So, am I bitter? Maybe... They do present an outsize hazard to other road users (cyclist and pedestrians and regular cars) because they are quite huge, hard to see directly over, large blind spots. They wear out the road quicker, they pollute the air faster that I breathe. So they very do much "impact me" more so than regular clown car use. $6 gas is a sufficient level, with taxes, to account for the actual societal cost of that gallon of gas (it could arguably be more).
Then, just maybe then, we can get something besides car-first-car-only transportation policy in 98% of North America.