[Unscaredy]

I might consider an aging leaf with a 60 mile range if I can have it for almost nothing.

[Unscaredy]

I personally still have my 2012 accord, creeping up on 200,000 miles, and which i intend to keep as long as it or i keep running. It’s starting to get vintagey, which is good.  Got lots of bumperstickers, dents, the windshield is messed up from a sandstorm in death valley, smells kinda bad inside; it’s just getting good!

I did have an idea for a bumper sticker art project: put left wing bumperstickers on the left side of the bumper, right wing bumperstickers on the right side of the bumper.  Clinton, coexist, hands off my uterus on the left, trump,  2nd amendment, pro life on the right.  That should lower the value of the vehicle substantially.

 

 

[Unscaredy]

I am here.  I am way too irritated by not qualifying for the federal tax incentive to buy an EV because I make “too much” money.  Really, $300,000 is too wealthy to get a vehicle incentive?  Have these federal bureaucrats been to Jimbos lately  and seen the price of sprouted almond butter??  I come home from the farmers market with a couple of leaves and an onion and two oranges and I’m out $50.00.  .  So irritated am I by this arbitrary wealth tax  cutoff  in fact that i refuse to buy an EV, and will in fact, NEVER buy an electric vehicle if people below the 300k cutoff are getting 7500 just for earning less money than me.  This I recognize is absurd, and violates the sound principle of focusing on what is in one’s own bowl, and not worrying about what is in your neighbor’s bowl.  Which is all well and good, but $7,500 is in my neighbor’s bowl and nothing is in mine!  This is bullshit!

I was going to check on the rules, see if I could have my kid buy an EV, transfer the car to me, then have him take the tax credit and pay him back for the car. But it’s all just too annoying and I don’t want to engage in any kind of fraudulent nonsense or drag my kid into a conspiracy.  Am I being petty about the money?  Perhaps.  But if you want to play incentives, unscaredy is responding to a clear incentives.  The government wants people doing well not to buy electric vehicles.

I do need to get a new car though, coincidentally, because my wife’s 2012 mini needs a new clutch ($3,600!) and something else ($1,800!) and it’s still not guaranteed the car will run, due to other engine light issues.  She wants a Porsche, but may settle for a miata.  I am pulling for a toyota corolla.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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