What I don’t get is how people can afford driving any truck for personal use.
I mean I’d like a truck for hauling stuff around the house, like feed, firewood, and the odd building materials. But I can’t afford a car just for that, so I would need to use it for daily driving as well. I did a cursory search for used f150s and the cheapest I’ve found is a 2015 king ranch gas powered two seater, which, besides the ridiculous price tag of 56k USD, is guzzling gas at an astonishing rate. Just the gas for my commute alone would be about 700USD monthly.
I know my numbers are a little high, these are Danish figures, but I still see dodge rams and f250s on the road. How the fuck are people affording that? Are they just going deeper and deeper into debt to peacock? That hardly seem sustainable.
Edit: somehow I claimed that I could afford a separate car for truck stuff, and then proceeded to explain why that wasn’t the case. Fixed that.
It broke my european mind when I was talking to an American about fuel prices. I spend like 90$ a month MAX, usually less on petrol. And then this mother fucker says 200-300$ A WEEK!!! BROTHER WHAT?!? And American fuel price are lower than here due to government subsidies, so like holy shit… How much more is that thing eating up??? He said that he only included his non work driving too…
It’s worse than that. I live in a rural Midwestern state, and have seen huge expensive trucks outside of a tiny home in terrible condition. Their truck is probably equally expensive as their home. It’s sucking all of their income and driving them into poverty.
Also near me, there was a billboard advertisement that said simply, “YOU NEED A TRUCK” with a picture of one of these monsters. I see people driving them around hauling nothing. It’s about 30% of the vehicles on the road. It’s a culture I will never understand.
Part of the problem is their commute is also probably a farther distance due to suburban sprawl and housing prices pushing people farther from their work places.
What I don’t get is how people can afford driving any truck for personal use.
I mean I’d like a truck for hauling stuff around the house, like feed, firewood, and the odd building materials. But I can’t afford a car just for that, so I would need to use it for daily driving as well. I did a cursory search for used f150s and the cheapest I’ve found is a 2015 king ranch gas powered two seater, which, besides the ridiculous price tag of 56k USD, is guzzling gas at an astonishing rate. Just the gas for my commute alone would be about 700USD monthly.
I know my numbers are a little high, these are Danish figures, but I still see dodge rams and f250s on the road. How the fuck are people affording that? Are they just going deeper and deeper into debt to peacock? That hardly seem sustainable.
Edit: somehow I claimed that I could afford a separate car for truck stuff, and then proceeded to explain why that wasn’t the case. Fixed that.
It broke my european mind when I was talking to an American about fuel prices. I spend like 90$ a month MAX, usually less on petrol. And then this mother fucker says 200-300$ A WEEK!!! BROTHER WHAT?!? And American fuel price are lower than here due to government subsidies, so like holy shit… How much more is that thing eating up??? He said that he only included his non work driving too…
It’s worse than that. I live in a rural Midwestern state, and have seen huge expensive trucks outside of a tiny home in terrible condition. Their truck is probably equally expensive as their home. It’s sucking all of their income and driving them into poverty.
Also near me, there was a billboard advertisement that said simply, “YOU NEED A TRUCK” with a picture of one of these monsters. I see people driving them around hauling nothing. It’s about 30% of the vehicles on the road. It’s a culture I will never understand.
Superliminal advertising
Part of the problem is their commute is also probably a farther distance due to suburban sprawl and housing prices pushing people farther from their work places.
It’s crazy to think I bought my 2012 f350 loaded in 2014 for 38k