My prediction- in ten years or less, you'll be able to buy
all the SUVs and cigarette boats and ATVs you want, for
pennies on the dollar.


Martin Baxter wrote:
As I said a little while ago, when you consider what one of these
phallic substitutes costs, (say with quad blown 454s), upwards of half a
million clams, a few thousand in fuel is chump change. A good many of
those that I see up here are driven by daddy's spoiled brat anyway and
sure as shootin' they don't give a tinkers dam about spending daddy's
bucks!


The part about spending daddy's money is the truth all
right... but you're missing an important point. The price of
gas (and of a weekend's fun) is in a different category than
the price of the bot itself. You can get long term finance
on a big vroom-vroom... that's really cheap. All but free in
today's world. But a place to park it and the gas to run it
are both on short-term credit (which can be free for a while
if you're willing to keep jumping card companies) which runs
dry sooner & is more costly... and the cost is more obvious
even to people who think nothing of having a couple (or
more) maxed-out credit card accounts.

Anyway, we'll see!

DSK