A joke of course, please do not throw your car batteries into the ocean.

Just think, you might hit a sea turtle with it!

Then they’ve got to go to the doctor and you know they don’t have health insurance!

  • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I suppose a big part of it is that around here, the government pays a decent chunk of money when you scrap an old (> 15 years) car, it can go up to $4k (converting to us dollars) if you’re buying an EV to replace it, doesn’t have to run or anything.

    That’s one thing I always thought was weird, I occasionally fall asleep watching those “I offered to mow their lawn for free” videos on YouTube, and there’s always like a car graveyard on people’s backyards, several cars as old as sin and almost sunk into the overgrown weeds and bushes. You never see that here, at most you’ll find an old pet project the owner has been meaning to work on but hasn’t found the time for in the last 20 years or so…

    An old battery you can always trade in for at least $20 a piece in store credit in several places, or more if you’re trading it for a new one, they never even checked them just asked me to throw them on the pile with the other ones.

    • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      People used to keep old cars lying around for the parts. Nobody where I grew up could afford the services of a professional mechanic or to order new parts. But everyone could do most work on their own car or knew someone who could.

      I once met a guy who bought a car for a case of tenant’s lager. Certainly noone was buying new cars. Similarly everyone kept a giant pile of string and rope in their shed/barn because the closest place that sold string was an hour away. We also had a large pile of lead piping from when my parents replaced it with copper. I used to melt it down and cast things out of it.

      • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Some nostalgia of those times when people had the skills and the means to work on the things they own. Nowadays it feels like it doesn’t matter that you paid full price for your car, or even your tractor for that matter, they’re finding ways of keeping their paws on everything. I haven’t traded in my diesel van because of this, though it’s getting heavy with the miles on it…

        In any case, not that those times were necessarily better, sounds like people just got by, and thats all too familiar.