Insurance
I bought this delightful new Honda CRV (Conflict Resolution Vehicle - I'm writing this off by fighting crimes with it) last month, and in 30 days I have increased the odometer reading from 35 miles to 1840 miles. It is now filthy and today I will wash it.If you want a sterling example of how market forces conspire to keep the nation polluted and at war for oil, consider the conversation I had with AAA about my car insurance.
Me: Here are the stats on the new car blah blah blah I need a quote blah blah blah.
AAA lady: How many miles a year do you expect to drive it?
Me: Oh, under 12,000 miles (suppress laugh).
AAA lady: That will be $2700.
Me: Oh, and I want to take my junky Saturn off my insurance and donate it to some charity, like Spay the Whales.
AAA lady: If you take the Saturn off, the insurance for the Honda alone will be $3900 (suppress laugh).
Me: So it will cost me $1200 less to have two cars, one of which will not leave the garage?
AAA lady: Yes.
Apparently there is a considerable discount when one would also be buying twice as much gas.
The purpose of buying a new car was to not continually be throwing money at the Saturn for repairs. Having a new additional car is obviously a huge convenience, but we don't need it and never did.
It is a slippery slope, at the end of which is my inauguration as President of the United States.
Now we will use these two cars rather than one, because we can. We will buy gas for two cars rather than one, polluting twice as much, driving drunk twice as much, using two cars for drive-by shootings, mowing down twice as many enemies. One follows the other and you can't stop it. I guess I need to accept my destiny.
Get out of my way.
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by Marty Barrett at Friday, May 05, 2006
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