Comment on anon discusses car dependence

Drewmeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Have you considered renting? Depending on the business model, that could be very cheap if it’s just a couple of hours per week.

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Renting a car? Oh… You mean like, subscribing? The type of payment model where the consumer always ends up overpaying?

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s only a subscription if you keep the car 24/7, it’s a completely different thing if you only rent for a couple of hours per week. Even renting a car for a day (which might be the shortest amount of time you can rent a car in many places) wouldn’t be a subscription.

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      • zerosignal@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The car rental place is further away from me than the grocery store.

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    • Schmuppes@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Where I live, the concept is called “car sharing”. There are two small cars just across the street and if I need one, it costs 2,50 € per hour plus maybe 0,30 € per kilometer, fuel included. So if I need to make a weekly grocery run to one of the large stores, it’s probably just a little over 10-12 Euros for three hours all told.

      Now, I own a car that’s older and too cheap to not keep it for longer drives when I am seeing my family (roughly an hour each way) at the weekends, but for my day-to-day needs, I probably shouldn’t own one.

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    • Shellbeach@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Car2go was such an awesome service. I missed it very much when it went…I don’t know, where did it go?

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Or instacart.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can’t you just order groceries? Isn’t that a thing in the US?

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