Want to really piss Americans off?

[Jolly]

@horace said in Want to really piss Americans off?:

Ax you are quickly becoming TNCR’s most insightful historian.

I sometimes forget that Ax has never waited in line for an hour to buy five gallons of gas. Not for an entire summer.

Ask Mr. Carter about those car-connected political ramifications.

[Mik]

I'm thinking our 2010 Camry just got more valuable!

[Axtremus]

@jolly said in Want to really piss Americans off?:

Ask Mr. Carter about those car-connected political ramifications.

Seeing that you are already moving the goal post from “buying cars” to the much more vague “car-connected” terminology so early in a thread tells me that you already know there isn’t much political ramifications about “buying cars.”

[Jolly]

@axtremus said in Want to really piss Americans off?:

Seeing that you are already moving the goal post from “buying cars” to the much more vague “car-connected” terminology so early in a thread tells me that you already know there isn’t much political ramifications about “buying cars.”

Ronald Reagan and both houses of Congress.

[jon-nyc]

I should have held out for 8500 for the Fit.

[Loki]

Housing sales are already dropping. Don’t put too much stock in disruptions, they are rarely long term. Most news is just in service of continuing our cultural wars.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Want to really piss Americans off?:

I should have held out for 8500 for the Fit.

You might have gotten 9...

[Loki]

Much of the new car shortage is chip related. When you consider what those chips do, like rear cameras and lane control if a revolution is caused by not having those features then we deserve to all die.

[Jolly]

Chip-less Ford trucks at Kentucky Motor Speedway:

[Loki]

@jolly said in Want to really piss Americans off?:

Chip-less Ford trucks at Kentucky Motor Speedway:

WOW

[LuFins Dad]

@loki said in Want to really piss Americans off?:

Much of the new car shortage is chip related. When you consider what those chips do, like rear cameras and lane control if a revolution is caused by not having those features then we deserve to all die.
Remember that the cameras are required by law since 2017.

[Loki]

@lufins-dad said in Want to really piss Americans off?:

@loki said in Want to really piss Americans off?:

Much of the new car shortage is chip related. When you consider what those chips do, like rear cameras and lane control if a revolution is caused by not having those features then we deserve to all die.
Remember that the cameras are required by law since 2017.

Oh. Did not know that. I don’t really use mine except the beeping is helpful in parallel parking.