Just one part of the overall picture of transportation in this era. Just do some Sunday car lot shopping, looking at the sticker prices of new cars and trucks to realize why car companies are contracting these days.
Especially for our young people here in the US and throughout the world for that matter. Who can afford to go into debt worth 35 to 55+ thousand dollars on a new Chevy, Ford or Mopar product? Pretty much every car maker is getting out of the business of building and selling an affordable two or 4 door car to the masses; having turned their sites to more expensive and profitable to them SUV's and CUV's. The smallest Chevy Colorados and Ford Rangers going for 35k on average. This is an untenable situation for our automakers and the proof will be more shuttered car lines and some well known car makers going under.
For the bigger US cities, congestion toll pricing for cars and trucks, along with more bike friendly lanes will only see more young folks moving to bikes and ebikes.
Used car and truck markets will be where the action is for a buyer of 4 wheeled transportation, while in the warm weather months, I can see more and more people taking their bikes to work just to avoid the monetary loss and hassle our big city govts impose on the working force.
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