So here's your choice - go green and flaunt your ecocredentials or buy a used jalopy for $2000 and send one of your kids to a junior college for two years and a state, 4-year college for the last two. Save the Earth or get your kid a degree in mechanical engineering.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
College is Overrated - Buy a Chevy Volt Instead
Eric Peters, writing at the American Spectator, has a terrific dissection of the price of the new, all-electric, Chevy Volt. It costs about the same as a college education - $40,000.
So here's your choice - go green and flaunt your ecocredentials or buy a used jalopy for $2000 and send one of your kids to a junior college for two years and a state, 4-year college for the last two. Save the Earth or get your kid a degree in mechanical engineering.
Me, I'm picking Gaia over my kid.
So here's your choice - go green and flaunt your ecocredentials or buy a used jalopy for $2000 and send one of your kids to a junior college for two years and a state, 4-year college for the last two. Save the Earth or get your kid a degree in mechanical engineering.
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Actually College is overrated. Recall that UCSD had less than a 10% graduation rate. And popular majors like engineering restricted access to the top students.
So for most students its a financial gamble.
And the car will last for eight years or more, while $40K will only cover a year of private college.
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