Cars now can be causing the wrong emotions. With gasoline moving past four dollars per gallon, there is no end in sight.

Americas love affair with the automobile may be ending soon. Cars are costing more then human life. It must be feed, insured, taken in for check ups, and repaired. And if it has an accident, or is committed to death by being totaled, the pain can set in.

The trend is moving back to smaller fuel efficient cars. But what if you don't fit, or your family does not fit, and you have to get some where? Negative emotion.

When buying a car consider that it is just sheet metal and tires. It is transportation.
The time is to forget about the emotion and get practical. If you look at people who have retired, very few have a new car, or celebrate their retirement by buying a new car, why because it does not make good sense.

The days of investing in truck and vans that get six miles per gallon is another road to bankruptcy. Can you imagine filling up for two hundred dollars per tank. A forty gallon tank will get you two hundred and forty miles. Consider flying, it will be much less expensive.

As far as the statement about my first car, forget, your first car is a hunk of junk. How many good memories can you have about a car, come on, are you that board?

We are changing as a nation, and the car is going away. Civic development, public transportation, and visions into the future do not have the automobile as a corner stone to the future.

The oil companies want to twist any emotion you may have had about your car, into a seven dollars per gallon party because they do not care.

When buying a car, do not show any emotion unless you do not see into the future. There is to much that we need to do in the future. The world of the car now must emotionally move aside.

Emotion and cars can make you bigger then life, until the wheels come off. Ask Hulk Hogans son about emotions and cars. He was emotionally in love with his Toyota Supra. Now he is going to jail for almost killing his passenger. What emotion does he have for cars now.

Emotions should not be part of the driving and automobile ownership experience. You cannot control what happens on the road. So why twist yourself about something that cannot take care of it's self.

Be happy, take the bus. Well maybe that is not such a good idea, since diesel fuel cost more then gasoline. OK then it must be time for that new bike.

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