Back when…
cars began to be available to buy, they were made to take one or more persons from one place to another.
And hopefully they were affordable for people to buy who did not have a lot of money.
They were in some ways a thing that was good for the buyer.
My, how far we have come from back then (as I type this item, I am watching a video that was made in 1927, and it is wonderful to see cars with simplicity…affordability…together).
In 2022 cars seem to be so far from the types available in 1927.
Yes, they used gasoline as their power source and added to the effects of climate change, although I would be surprised if there were many people talking about climate change in 1927.
And, yes, some of the cars available to buy in 2022 are hybrid, or electric, or hydrogen, or powered by some other means.
But, with the increasing complexity of each type of car has come the increasing cost that puts them out of range for many people who are wondering how to pay for what they already need to pay for…, let alone buy a car.
Sigh, here we are in the pickle again, caught between a rock and a can’t afford place…
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What can we do?
That is a good question, and I don’t know the answer.
Hopefully somebody will think of one or more answers that will help us to travel back to 1927, in a manner of speaking, and have cars available to buy that are affordable…, that the person who has not a lot of money can buy.
That way we each can feel good knowing that when we are driving a car that we are not hurting the Planet by adding to our carbon dioxide emissions.
I know, I need to talk about mass transit. It has good points, and not so good points, like every mode of transportation.
Not only does it, in some cases add to the carbon dioxide emissions as it travels, but it is also what I will call too sardiney.
As we keep adding numbers of people to those living in towns and cities it becomes increasingly more difficult for us to avoid breathing other people’s breath, which, as we have found out time and again, can be hazardous to our health and to the health of others.
We need clean fresh safe air to breathe, so that we can be healthy, and stay healthy.
So, we are back to the idea of one person inside of one car, where the only breath they breathe is their very own.
But, to do this, and save the Planet from the effects of climate change, (yes, I will say it again) it would be good to have something simple and affordable to drive.
Maybe it is time for each of us, the potential buyers, to begin to ask car companies to design simpler cars, so that we might be incentivized to buy them.
