Why auto insurance costs are rising at the fastest rate in 47 years, over 20% increase from the prior year
Why auto insurance costs are rising at the fastest rate in 47 years, over 20% increase from the prior year
While car prices dip lower and gradually come back down to pre-pandemic levels, more Americans are still feeling the financial pinch from car ownership — because of insurance.
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Hmm, it's almost like we should focus considerably more on simple vehicles instead of complex subscription shit boxes that we have, to cut down cost of manufacturing/materials/parts/labour and now insurance...no big money in that though.
Or you know ...public transport is also pretty damn good option over any of this. Something drastic would have to change for trains/buses/etc to become commonplace in NA though, at least in some EU countries and a few other countries in the world there's a bit of hope.
Or you know …public transport is also pretty damn good option over any of this.
Is it? In America? Outside of a few cities?
It sure as hell isn't here. And even if it was, I live in a semi-rural area. Farm fields and my subdivision. The closest bus stop is 2 miles away across a four-lane highway. The buses only reach a small percentage of town and don't have late-night hours.
Public transport is not a good option here it all. Maybe it should be, but it isn't. We're a college town with three colleges and the bus doesn't even go by two of them.
The "fuck cars" attitude is fine if you live in a lot of, but not all, bigger cities. Many of the rest of us either have to have a car or we're basically fucked.
In the US, electric vehicles are only affordable for wealthy drivers. In China, they are building cheap electric cars, like $16,000 cheap. But tarrifs to protect our stagnant auto industry will keep these cars out.
It's maddening isn't it, and probably not that different between US and Canada.
I don't think you even need to go as far as China to see autoindustryasshattery in effect, just look at our Southern neighbors in Mexico who aren't getting fair share on the produced vehicles while parent companies/dealerships reap profits, but that's probably a different conversation altogether.....I mean something is seriously fucking wrong when a car dealer is also one of the biggest grocery chains and god knows what else (that one is Canada, not US)
In the US, electric vehicles are only affordable for wealthy drivers.
Here's 14 used EVs for under 5k. Yeah, they're not the greatest whizbang self driving blah blah blah, but I put almost 100k miles on a 2011 Leaf and had little issue with it, and my kid is still driving it to this day. It's all you need if you're just running around town doing errands. Rent something for long trips.