финансовый консультант

In 2001, the National Household Travel Survey revealed that there
was an average of 1.9 personal vehicles owned or available to each
U.S. household. That’s about two cars per home. For a country in which
barely one household in five owned two vehicles in 1960, we’ve made
some impressive strides.
But here’s the really interesting statistic: The same survey showed
that we have only 1.8 drivers per household—fewer than the number
of available cars. If every driver in America got into his or her car and
started driving at the same time, we’d have something like 10 million
cars left over. In other words, it’s right now technically impossible for
us to drive all the vehicles we own. And since it costs nearly $10,000
a year to own and operate a vehicle, we as a nation are now spending
in the neighborhood of $100 billion each year for cars we cannot
drive.1
When you’ve got more cars than you can possibly drive, you’ve
moved beyond the realm of utility; you’ve crossed over into the financial
Twilight Zone.
We don’t need those extra vehicles, and can’t use them. So why are
we paying $100 billion for them just to sit there, inert, in our garages
and driveways? The answer is that, sometimes, a car is not a car. We’re
not spending that $100 billion for a ride to work, a trip to the mall, or
a lift to the ball park. We’re spending it on something else entirely.