I recognize appreciating cool machines, I really do. I’ve just never been able to wrap my head around being a car guy. Spending huge chunks of change on a car, consistently modifying it, watching car shows all the time. I just dont get it. What’s the big draw for you?
I was a car guy, more or less. I enjoyed driving them, I enjoyed tinkering with them. I like going fast, I like shifting gears. I did some incredibly cool road trips, I did some autocross, I did some commercial driving too and enjoyed the challenge of finding the most efficient routes across the city.
But there are too many cars on the road, designing our cities around them was a potentially civilization-ending mistake, and we should all stop burning fossil fuels like right now and also stop spreading microplastics, oil, and road salt all over the land. There are better ways to commute. These days I’m more of a “fuck cars” guy.
Its true, the waste part pains me, however im keeping old cars useful on the road and not buying new.
Compared to people buying absolute junk off Amazon every day that will instantly become e waste or plastic waste, I think im actually wasting less. Thats my take anyway. I cant reduce (i like to enjoy life; and also the worst thing environmentslly one can do is have children so im also ahead on that) so ill Reuse. Thats better than recycle.