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Old 08-28-2023, 11:12 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Nearly all junk and good condition used cars get sold and shipped overseas
Due to the trade imbalance Foreign bidders pay nothing to ship cars home, labor is basically free and they don’t care how it’s fixed.

It’s not uncommon for a wreck to sell for double-triple to foreign bidders compared to what it sells for domestically.

Government needs to add a large export tarriff on used cars so our children’s future cars aren’t all exported. This is also why the age of cars is rapidly increasing, 1-5 year old cars are rarer than 20 year old ones.

You would think if the government wants “old” cars off the market they would try to keep new ones here but nobody cares.

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