Oh Good Lord
So now American car companies are offering to "help" people pay for their gas if they buy new cars. It's great marketing, but it's also really sad that some people will actually buy into this scam. Not to mention the retarded business sense of the whole idea, one that is nearly as bad as government farm subsidies. They are going to basically pay people to buy and drive their vehicles that under-perform in gas mileage when they are already losing money on the production of the cars in the first place.
Here's an idea: why not make a car that gets ridiculously good gas mileage and then outsell your foreign and domestic competitors? Alas, this is the very idea they've fought against for years. Clearly there must be inbreeding going on between the gas companies and the car companies for this idea to really take flight. It just defies common sense.
Here's an idea: why not make a car that gets ridiculously good gas mileage and then outsell your foreign and domestic competitors? Alas, this is the very idea they've fought against for years. Clearly there must be inbreeding going on between the gas companies and the car companies for this idea to really take flight. It just defies common sense.
I laugh at those commercials. People who buy into those promotions are the same people who buy four cans of tuna when they're on sale 4/$1.00, even though the regular price is $0.25/can.
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I read an article about how the Geo Metro has tripled in value lately as a used car b/c people are now seeing the value in 40 mpg over a flashy SUV. I know that I have my own (once) flashy truck, but as I've said before, I've also chosen to live only a few miles from work. I'm going to start riding my bicycle to work on weekends when there's no dress code.
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The other commercials that are beginning to grate on me are the ones showing some relatively inexpensive vehicle driven by twentysomethings and all the wacky and spontaneous things they do in them, like play video games or even better: take over city streets to create a water slide. Come on. It's ironic to me that one of the most pervasive symbols of our individualism and solitude is being promoted as a method of helping to foster community! Maybe I don't get it since I've never owned a car.
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A colleague showed me National Geographic from 1981 that had a three page pull-out Chevy add, the cars were advertised as getting 40 mpg or better, 27 years ago! there is something wrong with the fact that business has been allowed to back slide on technological improvement and yet both sides of the issue seem so American.
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