Quote Originally Posted by ashauler View Post
JiveTurkey, I wish I would have sent you a PM. Sorry. I asked because I was genuinely interested, and I appreciate your response. I'm sorry you're getting shit on for it.

I don't think it's a ridiculous or stupid statement at all. Statements like that are relative to ones situation. What's ridiculous is the $1300/yr operating costs for a vehicle, paid off or not. In my experience, that's woefully understated.

I'm not smart enough to understand how NOT owning a car can be more expensive than owning one. You've completely lost me on that one. A bus pass for unlimited rides for a year, where I live is $1080, or $90/month. Again, I spend more than that just for fuel, no mention of legally required insurance (no, I don't get the fancy collision and comprehensive coverage either), maintenance, taxes, tags, etc.....so from where I sit "but it is more expensive to own a car than not" would be a fact. No? Help me understand how it's not please. I am, after all, a simple country boy.

It's also pretty goddamn ridiculous, imo, to basically call someone stupid and ridiculous and start throwing around irrelevant bullshit about the occupy the crack of my ass people as a way to further ridicule someones beliefs that you don't agree with. What a load of nonsense, imo, of course. I'm certainly not above taking shots at asshats/mooches/trolls/thiefs, but none of that applies here, again, imo.
I did NOT call him "stupid" or "ridiculous" there's a difference. I'm not going to go back and play the little
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but go back and read exactly what I said because it isn't what you claim it was. I know you're smart enough to know the difference so you can cut the $hit anytime now.

We don't have "bus passes" in my area because THERE ARE NO BUSES. How many parts of North America do you really think have bus routes where you can buy a bus pass? The reality either way you want to cut it (percentage of population served by public buses or percentage of land area served by public buses) it's incredibly small. The only option would be paying a taxi or livery service and that Jamie would cost more than all costs associated with automobile ownership more often than not so yeah, if you don't have public transportation available to you then it almost certainly costs more to not own a car than to own one if you have to rely on hiring private transportation to bring you to your job and to get even little insignificant things like food.

And I didn't "start throwing around irrelevant bullshit about the occupy the crack of my ass people as a way to further ridicule someones beliefs that you don't agree with" you asswipe, my issue was with the STATEMENTS he made, not his "beliefs" so once again knock it off, I honestly can't believe you're being such a dickhead.