Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for June 07, 2024

Nah, the Chinese will have fried our electric grid, and make us walk.

There’s no way as retired person on limited income I can afford any type of car payment and anything I could pay cash for would be a money pit. When my car finally bites the dust it will be ride share and public transportation for me. However the public transportation where I live in Florida is not the best.

Yeah, No $hit Baldo!

It will never happen, electric cars are not the wave of the future.

And gasoline will be $20 a gallon

let us say the entire country goes electric, and let’s also say that we have all of them plugged in at the same time, let us just say that we won’t be worrying about if the car works at that point, or anything else, some of the small bugs in Biden’s green plan

In 20 years you will need to apply for permission to own a car.

The “people” are waking up to the whole fiasco of electric cars…

In all my life, I only bought 1 new car. All the rest have been used. I run them til they croak, and then go looking for another one. In 20 years, I’ll still buy a used car, more than likely a gas powered one. They can’t build infrastructure fast enough for EV’s, they can’t solve the cost issue, and if you think oil is limited, then just imagine how finite the materials are for batteries.

Likely the parts he needs are becoming scarcer and scarcer and thus more expensive every month. The inflation rate is likely greater than anything he could get in a CD or mutual fund.

No, all cars won’t be electric.

I’ll be 80 next week and still haven’t finished restoring my Model A Ford. Yikes!

I feel that way about saving for a house. When I started saving, I could have bought one outright for the cash I have now. But today I barely have enough for the down payment, and making the monthly mortgage, combined with the high interest rates and the insane costs the insurance companies are hiking is going to make ownership a stretch. The more I save, the more out of reach home prices become.

Baldo, I hate to be the one, but, your only hope is a rich mechanic girlfriend or settle for a rat rod, make it run with whatever you can get cheap and make fit. I have drove some beaters to get where I am today. I’ve driven vans where you could see the road better between your feet through the holes in the floor than could through the cracked and pitted windshield. I had a Buick, I used the seat belt to tie the door shut. You’ll get there. Work hard. Be smart. Go without when you have to. Pray.

Good News! You’re in a comic strip where you never age, so time is on your side.

Love the last panel!