Date:         Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:35:24 -0800
Reply-To:     Vern in Bend <vernmcintosh@EONI.COM>
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From:         Vern in Bend <vernmcintosh@EONI.COM>
Subject:      Re: bashing was: vanagon engine conversions
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> The other I saw more recently about how car expenditures
> were the single greatest financial drain on a household and if the average
> household kept a car for 10-12 years instead of the average 4-5 and
invested
> the savings they'd be able to retire much earlier and better and so on. If
> that chucklehead had invested the money he wasted on that truck maybe he
> could afford to send that kid to college someday.
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>

The "and so on" includes real home-buying power. But, then, the health of
our economy depends on lots of people throwing their money away.

Vern