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Originally Posted by Zappo  * The next day. Again I ended up in office till 10.30pm. I know its going to be a long way home. I come out of the main gate and hey! presto, there is actually a cab there at the gate looking for customer. I ask him and he agrees after some nakhras provided I pay him 1.5x the fare. Oh, so he was looking for a bakra. |
1. zappo - i agree with everything except 1.5x. that fare is asked if the guy is honest. you try travelling from noida to delhi at 2 am in morning and 70% probability that cabbie is gonna ask for 5-6 times the fare.
2. also, just imagine once everyone sells off their cars, how many buses/trains/cabs/autos we will need to transport delhi's junta?
3. since the article is from ET, once ppl stop buying cars, auto indistry will go into recession...whats the consequent impact on steel, rubber, auto spare/ancillaries factories?
4. anyways what will happen to price of a taxi - right now due to economies of scale, taxis are appropriately priced. But once private cars stop selling, prices of taxis will shoot up (as manufacturer will have to recover fixed cost from less number of sales) and obviously the writer's maths will go for a toss.
5. same logic for fuel prices - lesser number of ltrs sold, fuel company will have to recover their fixed costs from lesser # of ltrs. Price of fuel will increase. ET expert writer will then need to redo the math.