I usually don’t like to get personal, but I just got a heck of a deal.

Our car is getting old – old enough to graduate from high school in a year or two. It has been reliable and dependable. But it is getting old. Also I am tired of buying gas and changing oil that supports the industry that is most responsible for making life on our space earth tenuous.

I am also quite tired of cooling systems and transmissions and all the various accessories that make owning a internal combustion engine car a true pain in the butt.

We had kind of targeted Spring of 2026 as a goal to start looking for a vehicle. Then as he often does the Felon in the White House once more inserted himself into our lives. For a party that claims they stay out of people’s lives, they sure get in the way a lot. 

In this case the FIWH made a point to go after the $7500 tax rebate (or whatever it was) on EVs built in America. No doubt the FIWH targeted the rebate as a favor to his oil billionaire buddies. However, for many Americans it just moved their time table up on looking for a new vehicle. The FIWH and his congressional minions put an end to the rebates for September 30th.

Well with that new time table we started hunting. As I said we had a time table so we had been saving toward that goal. So fortunately we had money in savings. Thus over Labor Day weekend we found something we liked. With the government rebates and other incentives we came in at a price much below what we had anticipated.

For what it is worth we got a Chevy Equinox. This about 30 years after I swore I would never buy a GM car again. Here is hoping they grew up in the past three decades.

Here is a short video on the Chevy EV. I am in no way trying to shill for GM. May I also mention that with all the controls and choices it is like I am having to do a lot of learning. 

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One last reminder: if you want to break from the dying internal combustion engine while getting a nice rebate, the tax rebate program ends on September 30th. If you are going to look for one you do not have a lot of time left.

Oh and it appears I will be helping some person out with a reliable car while they get back on their feet. BONUS!