Friday, November 21, 2008
yo yo...there's certain things that i think about that i just can't wrap my head around, even though i know there's answers to them. Like home sales statistics. Recently there was some stat about new home construction declining. Can't there be a point where there are enough homes and there's just no reason to build anymore? I feel like it can't be expected to get more and more each month.
Car sales also mess with my head too. There's so many cars being produced every year. Once ur done with ur car u sell it, then that person sells it to someone lower, etc. At what point does the car get destroyed or disspears? I feel like the number of cars being made each day way outnumbers the cars being sold+destroyed. Is this true?
In general public works just make me nervous and stressed when i think about them. subways, plumbing, sewers...i can't even imagine how all of that gets created and works. Ugh and the thought of something happening that disrupts nyc's subway makes me cringes.
**EDIT**
This just makes me mad. This is from an article talking about the upcoming Mini-E(fully electric version of the mini cooper)
"Sales start in America early next year. Just 500 cars have been built and they'll be leased -- for $850 a month -- in southern California, New York and New Jersey. A Cooper S, by comparison, costs about $350 a month. After one year (BMW will consider requests for extensions) the cars will be returned to BMW for examination and dismemberment. The German car maker sees the Mini E program as a giant electric car test exercise, and those guinea pig customers will make only a modest contribution to costs. The lithium ion batteries alone reportedly cost $30,000 each. There are no plans to make any further Mini Es, and BMW says it is unlikely to make a mass-produced plug-in EV for at least five years."
i hope no one returns the cars, pays bmw for them, and they try to take them away like the early 90's with GM and the EV-1 except this time hopefully people will pay more attention to it. At least it will be germans doing it and they're kinda like a universal enemy
Car sales also mess with my head too. There's so many cars being produced every year. Once ur done with ur car u sell it, then that person sells it to someone lower, etc. At what point does the car get destroyed or disspears? I feel like the number of cars being made each day way outnumbers the cars being sold+destroyed. Is this true?
In general public works just make me nervous and stressed when i think about them. subways, plumbing, sewers...i can't even imagine how all of that gets created and works. Ugh and the thought of something happening that disrupts nyc's subway makes me cringes.
**EDIT**
This just makes me mad. This is from an article talking about the upcoming Mini-E(fully electric version of the mini cooper)
"Sales start in America early next year. Just 500 cars have been built and they'll be leased -- for $850 a month -- in southern California, New York and New Jersey. A Cooper S, by comparison, costs about $350 a month. After one year (BMW will consider requests for extensions) the cars will be returned to BMW for examination and dismemberment. The German car maker sees the Mini E program as a giant electric car test exercise, and those guinea pig customers will make only a modest contribution to costs. The lithium ion batteries alone reportedly cost $30,000 each. There are no plans to make any further Mini Es, and BMW says it is unlikely to make a mass-produced plug-in EV for at least five years."
i hope no one returns the cars, pays bmw for them, and they try to take them away like the early 90's with GM and the EV-1 except this time hopefully people will pay more attention to it. At least it will be germans doing it and they're kinda like a universal enemy
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