And plenty of people here drive large SUV-type vehicles - it seems as if there are more every time I come. Many more electric vehicles here than in the US.
I'd guess most of them get company supplied cars which pay for those expenses. When I worked for a British company, most of the people in the UK at an assistant director level or above got company cars, and the two differences seen were that at a senior director level (and above) you could choose a vehicle that used gas instead of diesel and at a VP level you could get an SUV. Those seemed to be status symbols in the UK.
By contrast, in the US, except for sales persons cars were given to people at the VP level or higher and the push was for midsize sedans (you needed 4 doors) with big SUVs frowned upon (although some still got them). I presume this was to conserve gas as the company paid for all fuel and maintenance.
87 is $4.29/gal at Sheetz on Route 59 in Kent OH this p.m.
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That's certainly true, Big RR. I think it might be a relic of as recent as 40 or 50 years ago, (i.e., 1970s and 80s) when private car ownership in the UK was much less common than its is now. A vast public transport system (cheap and efficient) has largely been destroyed in the (IMO shortsighted) name of reducing public spending. I knew very few students who had their own cars when I was at university, and the idea of a high school student with his or her own vehicle was just unknown.
the idea of a high school student with his or her own vehicle was just unknown.
As it should be!
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
the idea of a high school student with his or her own vehicle was just unknown.
As it should be!
20 years or so ago I was having lunch with some of my co-workers. I was the boss but tried to wear that lightly. In conversation, I said that the Alfa Romeo 164 was a my dream car.
Lauren - maybe 21 and fresh out of college - piped up: "I had one of those in high school!"
