[asdf333]

not necessarily. if he bought your car and traded up from a real clunker with worse fuel efficiency the net result is likely better.

[relaxing]

And maybe the clunker was junked, orrrrr it was subsequently resold, or put on a ship to the global south and it’s clunkers the whole way down…

[jdlshore]

Cars don’t last forever, and shipping junk cars from the US to the global south doesn’t make economic sense. Eventually there’s a bottom of the chain.