This graphic from the Globe on Saturday summarized nicely another side to the realty madness in Canada. The ranks of realtors nationally is up just under 27% since 2008, with a staggering 77.8% more agents in the Toronto area. One thing for sure, 8 years of credit gorging, bidding wars and leaping prices do not make these folks investment experts, yet many buyers are following their advice. Like bugs to a zapper in summer.
I like this little video because it quite effectively makes a critical point that is typically lost on most people today: it is the quantity of calories consumed which are literally killing us (and our publicly funded health care systems!) We can’t afford to eat junk health wise, but time wise either. Our lifestyles are so sedentary that even if we make a point of exercising everyday there simply aren’t enough hours available a day to break even. Each morsel on the lips, 2 hours on the treadmill? Discipline on the intake is job number one for health.
How long you have to exercise to burn off the calories in popular junk foods pic.twitter.com/zOiySsBNXN
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) August 7, 2017
Maven is GM’s car-sharing service and not surprisingly they are adding a growing number of Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles (EV) in response to consumer demand. Slashing transportation costs by moving to shared EV is an obvious area to help consumers increase their disposable income for debt reduction and savings. And the vehicles are so much more efficient for shared transport providers because EV longevity crushes ICE, logging 3 and 4 times the mileage. See: EV’s fuel GM’s car-share vision:
The Bolt costs a customer $229 a week, including insurance, maintenance and charging. That’s about $40 more than other vehicles, but customers end up saving about $70 a week on fuel costs.
Bhattacharya said drivers have, on average, put 30 percent more miles on the Bolts than cars with internal combustion engines. Since the Bolts began being offered in May, drivers have logged more than 1 million electric miles.
“Early interest has been phenomenal,” Bhattacharya said of consumers. “For most of them, it’s not about environmentalism. It’s about fuel savings.”
Now about all those acres and acres of antiquated ‘ICE’ inventories sitting bumper to bumper in storage all over the planet…
