{"id":29,"date":"2021-06-05T21:45:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T21:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2021-06-05T21:45:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T21:45:21","slug":"why-ill-never-drive-an-electric-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;ll never drive an electric car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the title you may hate me already. But hear me out. It&#8217;s not what you think!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll never drive an electric car not because I don&#8217;t care about the environment (<strong>I support green energy<\/strong>), but rather because I expect the value of old gasoline cars to skyrocket in 50 years after they&#8217;re no longer being made. If I can keep my gasoline powered cars in good condition by using them and tuning them up every year, I believe they could be worth millions of<em> Doge Coins<\/em> or whatever we&#8217;re using as currency by then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"946\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/green-energy.jpg\" alt=\"electric\" class=\"wp-image-30\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/green-energy.jpg 946w, https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/green-energy-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/green-energy-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 946px) 100vw, 946px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I drove an electric car it&#8217;d be harder to keep my gasoline cars in good condition, because driving them regularly keeps the engine in good shape. Trust me, you don&#8217;t want to let a car sit for six months let alone 50 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, if I had held onto <a href=\"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/?p=18\">my first car<\/a>, it would be worth nearly 20x what I paid for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>That&#8217;s all!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the title you may hate me already. But hear me out. It&#8217;s not what you think! I&#8217;ll never drive an electric car not because I don&#8217;t care about the environment (I support green energy), but rather because I expect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/?p=29\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,8],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cars","tag-why-i-will-never-switch-to-a-tesla","tag-why-ill-drive-gas-cars-for-ever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentacar3000.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}