The Wizard Explains A Few Things

Since certain individuals, elected and blogging, continue "raising concerns of citizens" on the surplus vehicle issue, the Wizard has decided to weigh in on this issue that should not be.

First, vehicles used for municipalities and especially emergency vehicles ie., police cars, ambulances, fire trucks, etc. are often run very hard for short distances and rarely see highway usage. These vehicles, much like when people use a car to just "run errands around town" often have shorter life spans. Short trips, idling, consistent driving under 40 mph, is much harder on a vehicle than one that sees a decent amount of highway mileage.

The same would be said of vehicles used by various departments in a municipality, such as Public Works or Neighborhood Services. An understanding about situations like these is needed before wasting valuable time nit-picking the issue. You can dig and dig looking for the needle in the haystack and you never realize there was never a needle there to in the first place.

The time and energy wasted, when you were given the information in the first place, then you ask for details and it is a big conspiracy because no details were given in the first place. Then you go on radio shows and hold press conferences and rail against the conspiracy. However, you can never let go of the fact that there is no conspiracy.

How will you react when the current Mayor has no more information? The same?