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@SweetSabere I gotta tidy and make room.

Who up looning they loon rn

@MoonshineCollie Almost at 225k with the jimmy. Think youll keep gappin my mileage on that one as I dont so much daily it like I used to.

Another milestone ticked off

What genius!!!! Kangaroo hanger.

lowkey actually satisfying

@Azzy1047 Well I mean, clapped out s10 is clapped out. After complete rebuild, theyre dependable again. But the rust on that one. Need a nice one from down south or southwest with a new fuel system and solid driveline and theyre great little trucks.

this thing gave me a horrendous distaste for first gen s10s (i still love them though)

Lol

@HunterStirling Almost Everyone has a touch of the tism

Feeling pretty down right now. I just want to make friends. I try so hard. But no one is ever interested. And it really sucks. I'm really socially awkward because of my Autism. And I guess it scares people off...

@MazdaUSA Beach. Gonna drive my 3 to my local beach tomorrow.

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worst shit to happen to interior design ever

I admit, @DerechoYeen is quite the dominate, bully hyena… APRIL FOOLS!🥴 Watch me dominate & pin the sub on a HUGE balloon for #HumpDay.. as a (true) dominant kitty does 😼 🎈🎈

@ZevCyber @Handre Here's my sx4. But ya, in the rust belt nothing lasts. Unless you have a heated garage and wash every night. Down south here 80s and 90s would still be regular traffic. Still a decent bit down here.

I mean, those cars would have mostly been gone in a few years anyway as they were nearing end of life. I see very few 90s SUVs any more. We are talking 677k cars, or like 3 weeks of car sales. Again waste of money, but people also made it sound like all these nice cars were destroyed but it was just a drop in the bucket. Most were getting trashy.

Cash for Clunkers destroyed $2.4 billion in working capital in 2009. The government paid dealers to pour sodium silicate into 690,000 perfectly functioning engines -- rendering them permanently inoperable. These weren't junkyard cars. The program required trade-ins to be drivable and insured. You had working vehicles that poor families desperately needed, and bureaucrats systematically destroyed them to boost GM sales (while GM was under government ownership, naturally). The environmental impact? Pure theater. Most clunkers got 18+ mpg -- hardly gas guzzlers. Meanwhile, building new cars generates 25 tons of CO2 per vehicle before they leave the factory. The program likely increased net emissions while making transportation less affordable for everyone earning under $50k.

@ZevCyber @Handre That woulda been a great dependable car for you especially if it had the j20b engine. It was much too costly and wasteful. Too many good cars, gone.

@fuzzychubbywolf @Handre The SX4 I was going to get was a stick. I really wish the dealer didn't back out. I am not saying the program was great or it didn't get good cars destroyed, but it was effective at reducing CO2 emissions. Was it too costly? Probably.

@peterf @juskom95 @Handre Someone who needs it at an affordable price for them". To "i know what I got".

@peterf @juskom95 @Handre Being a driver from them years and being able to do basic automotive work since I was a kid in the the early 2000's, I've keept an eye on prices. And cfc was the start. 2020 nonsense made it worse. Also a culture mindset shift from "i got a good cheap car here i can sell to

@October_Blue_2 @Handre Still haulin. Got bodywork to do cuz I lived in the rustbelt for too long. But other than that, this one is mint. Take care of things and they'll last. Got buddies who daily 30+year old vehicles. Corse easier to do in the south and southwest.

@peterf @juskom95 @Handre Both are true. What cfc really did was show gov is wasteful.

@juskom95 @Handre The USA exports 800,000 used vehicles annually and you think 677,000 destroyed 15 years ago is still having an impact?

@ZevCyber @Handre One of my cars is a suzuki sx4. Dependable little cars. Weak cvt but if you maintain it and baby it they'll last. Wish mine was stick. But the program asnt good at all. I have a couple blazer/Jimmy's alot of those were lost. Too many good ones lost. What did you have?

BS. The one I was going to trade in was barely running getting 8 mpg. I was going to trade it for a Suzuki SX4. Dealer decided not to honor cash for clunkers that day as they were afraid they wouldn't get paid. Net positive CO2 benefit is very substantial, but expensive. css.umich.edu/publications/r…

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