@TimWardCam @corbin Yeah, I overstated it quite a bit myself. Last new car I bought was in 2012. I put 9K miles on it over the next _three_ years. I ended up trading it back to the dealer for a 7 year old used model that was of more practical use for a homeowner. Actually got cash back. I'm not putting more than a couple of thousand miles a year on that either. I bicycle and I take light rail. (And ride a motorcycle, but mostly for fun.)

@pieist @corbin Local trips are almost all by bicycle, I don't use the car most weeks, and sometimes not for a couple of months. But with covid ruling out flying we're driving our own car more for holidays than we used to.

@TimWardCam @corbin At least in the UK you have the option of taking trains; at something like one-fourth of the carbon impact of flying. Most places in the US it's not really practical or even possible. I did have business in the San Francisco Bay area a few months ago and was able to go by rail. Sleeper car for COVID reasons, so not exactly cheap.

@TimWardCam @pieist @corbin theres always plenty of 15 year old cars to replace the 20year old

I am very much at the bottom of the vehicle food chain and very happy there

@OliverNoble @pieist @corbin I am in the habit of buying a new car and running it until it's time to scrap it, then buying another new car. I CBA with buying cars every five minutes.