There are dozens of models out there already and the used market is growing day by day. Why does everyone need a brand new car and how does building a brand new car for everyone while scrapping every existing car reduce emissions?

At what point in history have brand new cars ever been obtainable for the masses?

Arguing for everyone to go out and scrap their current car just to buy a new one isn’t going to do anything for emissions. You realize building a new car creates more pollution than just buying or using one that already exists right?

The commenter above is claiming that we’re all going to die if we can’t all go buy a new Chinese EV for $10k, which is absurd and counterproductive to reducing emissions.

There are numerous small vehicles for sale in the US already but nobody buys them because they want a vehicle that’s good at more than one thing (being small) when forking over tens of thousands of dollars for it. Nobody is legislating to ban small or efficient vehicles they want to ban a foreign country from manipulating our markets by selling vehicles at artificially low prices due to billions in subsidies for their national brands.

This idea that if we simply threw out all 200+ million vehicles in the US and replaced them with new, more efficient ones, global warming would suddenly end is ridiculous. This is just consumer mentality and treating cars like disposable iPhones with the mindset that you’re “being green.” If you want to help curb emissions, go buy a used Prius or EV instead of demanding that a factory build you a new car and do so at an artificially low price. Go buy a bicycle or electric scooter. You’re not reducing emissions by destroying a product that has already been built and is in good condition just to replace it with a newer version.

I didn’t bother reading the rest of your comment since it devolved into unhinged rambling.

I’m saying this woman is crazy and has zero credibility so there’s no reason to believe anything she says. The woman she attacked is an attorney so I’m assuming she wouldn’t be illegally squatting in someone’s home and jeopardizing her whole career.

Considering the person she accused of being a squatter is an attorney and the person making the accusations is currently sitting in jail, I’m going to assume her story is b/s. The article stated that the attorney’s lease was up but that doesn’t mean she has to move out. I lived in places for years after my lease expired as a “month to month” tenant.

Same thought. This person gives me the creeps, and I wouldn’t be surprised to find out she stabbed someone who tried to break up with her.

Imagine trying that as a visitor from the US where we drive on the other side of the road.

How dare they disparage president Joseph Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Biden in such a way!

How does buying a cheap new car even if you don’t need it going to save humanity or prevent the earth from burning?

Are you arguing there’s no competition in the US or are you arguing that China should have to compete without the subsisides?

Everyone buying cheap new cars isn’t going to be the thing that saves us.

This opinion is ridiculous as “the big 3” doesn’t even exist anymore and hasn’t for over a decade. Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep is owned by a Scandanavian company.

Also this isn’t written to protect the few remaining American companies, it’s to protect the entire auto industry in the US including Kia/Hyundai, VW, Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, BMW, Subaru, etc.

China selling vehicles with massive subsidies that allow them to undercut everyone else in the market isn’t good for anybody but China because as soon as they put their competitors out of business, they will jack the price of their cars up as high as they want.

This is the same reason why when Walmart comes to a new town, all the similar local businesses shut down because it’s impossible to compete with their deep pockets, but now you’re advocating for it on a national scale which will potentially cost hundreds of thousands of domestic manufacturing jobs.

Beavis and Butthead is another similar example. Some group of people have done their best to recreate it digitally in a torrent called the King Turd edition.

It’s just an average. Same reason why $111k won’t get you a house in San Fran, LA, or San Diego even though that’s the average middle class salary for CA. There are lots of rural areas that bring that average down.

Transmissions are all electronically controlled now.

Woops I obviously shouldn’t have been doing math before having my coffee.

Right its usually either 0% APR or “$XXXX Cash Back” offer and both work out to be a discount off the sale price. I believe the APR is usually the better way to go but it can vary depending on the actual numbers.

Partially the reason. I’ve seen between $0.10 and $0.30 per gallon more for credit cards even though merchants only charge <5%. At $4.00/gal, 5% is only $0.02 that they’re paying the credit card companies so they’re making extra profit off that too.

Yes they’re still charging the merchant fees on your purchase which is often overlooked.

What kind of speakers? I recently got some Klipsch home audio that have removable grilles. The look with the grille off definitely looks better if you don’t have kids and stuff IMO. I’ve also recently bought some Pioneer for my truck and they too came with optional grilles though I didn’t need them since they went behind the door panels.