The car industry in general for the past couple of years now has had hundreds of thousands of new cars, sitting on lots, for over a year, unable to sell because prices keep going up, build quality/reliability keeps going down.
Last time I was in Seattle, I stumbled upon a parking lot in SoDo that just had hundreds of overflow Tesla Y's.
Then, a second lot, with Y's, S's and X's.
The second lot didn't even have a single guard. Just a chain link fence with barb wire and a padlocked chain across the gate.
Can't lower prices because need insane profit margins to pay CEOs and corporate debt.
Oh well, the yield curve recently uninverted, Trump got elected on promising to put massive tariffs on everything and round up / deport all the migrants that make the domestically produced and domestically consumed staple goods everyone needs.
Won't be long now till Great Depression 2.0
There's a cool indie documentary about cargo bikes called Motherload. It also covers the connection between bikes and feminism over history. One of the central elements is about the director/producer mother being worried about wildfires in California, and how having e-assist cargo bikes that can carry the family gives some peace-of-mind.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Obviously I have solidarity with people affected by climate change especially in the global south, but it's hard to have solidarity when you see videos of people abandoning cars and the news report opens onto a fucking Maybach.
