NPR’s ‘Planet Money’ says they used to make their money by buying cars cheap and selling them used, why they had more than enough cars on hand. The pandemic shortages upended that and the renter pays the price. [image] This is why it's still so expensive to rent a car Renting a car has n…

[image] asemaster: the used toilet paper would go in the burn barrel every morning. My grandparent’s home was built in the 1920s on 17-acres and house did not have either a septic tank or cesspool. The Black and Gray water flowed down a pipe that ran down the hill and into a creek that flowe…

[image] LoudThunder: the cans to explode sending the cans high in the air… I was waiting to hear about the used TP being blown into the air… :joy: My grandparents house in Black Mountain NC area, well was drilled over 150’ deep… Was on septic and TP was flushed, but the slop was so steep, n…

The house we had as a kid had a coal bin but the furnace had been converted to gas before my time. The coal bin was where paint and tools were kept. Still had the chute door for the coal. Thought everybody had one.

My grandmother in Nashville still had (at the time) a coil barn that they would dump coil in, he then wheelbarrowed it to the house and carried it to the stove heater… Still pushed mowed the acre yard when she up until the family tricked her and took it from her at age 87, also had to take the ladde…

I’m glad George isn’t starting anymore automotive threads, this is so much better…

It’s late. No onevis watching anyway.

[image] LoudThunder: It’s a wonder the Ice Caps did not melt long ago… They were melting, we just didn’t hear or read about it until more recently. Here’s a graphic from a recent NOAA report. Note that the surface area of arctic ice has been decreasing on average since 1984. NOAA would not ha…

Yeah when the glaciers that covered Minnesota finally melted leaving a lot of lakes, it just wasn’t covered much in the newspapers either.

Something must be wrong with my PC. I keep trying to find Cartalk but find this stuff instead.

The economics of the car-rental business

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Yeah it was my job to burn the trash once a week. I liked lighting fires.

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