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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.
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1 comment:

  1. Kelly the little black dog8:17 AM

    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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