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You get all that money back though when you return the cans.

Thankfully this really isn't the case in Vermont. There are robust liability protections for people who open their land to the public unless gross negligence is involved.

I'm not sure how it is in Maine.

Tuition by itself is about 19k a year for instate. When you include room/board food and other expenses UVM estimates it costs an instate student 32k a year to attend UVM and an out of state student 57k a year.

There are ways to get it down like merit scholarships for instate students which can knock up to 10k off eaxh year, but it's still crazy expensive.

If they can continue to live at home and get a merit scholarship it's fine, but otherwise they're going to need to apply for every possible scholarship, do ROTC, get an athletic scholarship, or use family money to abvoid going into a shit ton of debt.

Well how about Washington state? Surely you can't say it is flat compared to Vermont with the major mountain passes and multiple ski resorts. They don't have inspections either and have lower road deaths per capita.

That's the reason why the stuff is pointless. Shitty cars are being passed anyways.

"In one study, researchers in Pennsylvania intentionally created 13 defects in a brand new car prior to inspection. Among the many garages they visited, the detection rate of real defects varied widely, from 25% to 54%. Interestingly, while mechanics on average only found five of the 13 defects, they also “found” an average of two non-existent defects."

It should be like almost all other states where you are responsible for your own car. For example, Minnesota where I grew up has worse winters and rust issues and fewer auto deaths per capita. Unless the contention is Vermonters need to be babied more than Minnesotans for some reason, I don't get the point of these inspections.

"There are existing laws that allow police officers to issue citations for unsafe vehicles. There are statutes covering lighting, mirrors, mufflers, brakes, horns and tires. Comparison of insurance rates between those states that require annual inspections and those that do not show no significant difference in premiums. When fatality rates are compared, there is no correlation between inspections and fatalities. In short, the annual vehicle safety inspection has not been proven to benefit drivers in any way."

I would be happy to be proven wrong. The one study I've seen for inspections was being produced with ASA backing and I was less than impressed.