jews playing fast and loose with data again.
They count only the gasoline, not electricity because it's free.
Even with gasoline, you'd need to drive a lot with a low-mileage vehicle to get that kind of cash.
I'm more concerned they think maintenance is $1000 a month.
My Chevy Cruze's factory maintenance schedule is an oil change every 7500 miles including a tire rotation. That's once or twice a year. The last expensive maintenance was when I did shocks and struts, but that's every 90,000 miles. In a normal year, I might spend $1000 in maintenance items, maybe $2000 in fuel.
If I had a car that cost me $1000 a month in maintenance, I wouldn't be driving it. That's jet engine and alcohol dragster levels of maintenance.
That's the thing, it's bullshit designed to make the other car look good. I estimate, for the car I drive daily, I spend 250-300 a month on maintenance, fuel, tires, etc. That's everything, amortized to a monthly amount. I drive a lot, and the car gets a lot of things most people would simply ignore, so my number is high. A new vehicle shouldn't cost any more than tires, oil, and gasoline for the first 100,000 miles of it's life.
I have nothing against hybrid vehicles, and think that they should be the way we go forward until we can come up with a better energy storage technology than go-boom-boxes that electric cars currently are. It's just the Prius gave them all a pretentious stigma, and manufacturers are buying whole hog into the electric fallacy.
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