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People can't afford to own a car, that's why. It's not just public transportation infrastructure being fucked.
People can't find used cars because everyone wants a car that'll last a long time but then the job market is shit and people get high aprs and then ruin their credit, it's a lot of shit to get a car but people fuck themselves so hard buying one because they don't know how to navigate the financial aspect. ..... That's at least how I see it.
You also gotta make compromises with what you want vs what you can afford.
Too many people with bad credit bitch about high aprs that lock them down. I feel like if we had a better understanding of the financial demographics they're basing the research off of, we'd know who's not driving because they can't afford it vs lack of infrastructure by state.
The cheap used car market today was largely killed by cash for clunkers. Intentionally seized (literally, destroying perfectly running vehicles) engines to get them off the road. Near a quarter million perfectly running driving cars were intentionally destroyed. That had a short term affect on used car market sure, but more so it fucked people in this particular time for GOOD and CHEAPPP cars. I remember beating the shit out of 500$ bmws the night I got them off craigslist now I cant get a fucking civic for 3 grand that doesn't need another 2 in repairs
Well once there's a glut of cars they'll either shoot the price down and tell nobody, rich private sellers will scalp the cheap glut or they'll pull 👇
again and then we can all start complaining about public transportation twice as hard, with no results on our end but more profits on theirs......
Edit: holy shit they'll destroy the for insurance money if they're able to or they'll sell them back to their manufacturers and lose contracts potentially going out of business but it's more like the glut not being advertised is where it gets fucked and we need to put limits on how many vehicles someone can own. Rich people buying cars and selling them at scalping prices happens.