Many airports finance their expansions with a usurious tax on rental car contracts.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 8:54 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I just last Saturday returned a Nissan Armada rental to LAX. Total cost > for the week including taxes was $222.45. It seems unlikely I got the car > for $72.45 a week. > -Curt > > On Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 8:49:30 PM EST, Curley McLain via > Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > yeah, don't rent a car at a kollyfonia airport. They add on $150 a > week in extra charges, (taxes and environmental payments, and medical > and social services for illegal > aliens charges.... ) Rent from the local toada stealer. you'll save > ~$30 a day or ~150 a week. The toada stealer sent their courtesy van > to pick us up at the airport, and since we returned the car at a time > the driver was out, they paid for the u ber driver to take us back to > the airport. Best of all the people were great. Better than I've ever > been treated at an MB dealer, other than the long defunct Bickelhaupt > Motors. > > Yeah, I know... .friends don't let friends buy a toada. But for years > a lot of the 9xxxx zip codes have had rental fleets that are heavily > toada, so we kind of expect to see toada rentals. I called Mossy Ford, > and they transferred me to the rental dept. That turned out to be the > rentatoada department. The manager, Pete, told me that toada highly > encourages their stealers to rent cars at rates that undercut the #1 and > #2 rentacar companies. If you ever need to fly into San Diego, call up > mossy's rental office and save money. > > > G Mann via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > February 11, 2020 at 10:41 AM > > California: $285 a night.... the room is $15 a night... the rest of the > > charge is taxes and environmental payments, and social services for > > illegal > > aliens charges... > > Welcome to California... > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
