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The car rental companies found themselves with large fleets of taxable but non-earning assets as the reality of the pandemic settled in. They had fire sales (including some spanking deals on lightly used Corvettes!) So, folks started traveling a bit this past summer, but - and its a big but - because of the chip shortage there are no new cheap fleet model cars to buy to rebuild the rental inventories.

Anyway: check out Flixbus. A German bus company new to the NA market, they're trying to get up to speed post-COVID. No, I'm not in any way affiliated, but they get a cycletouring mention because you can reserve a spot for your bike on some routes, and they're working toward making that available across the board. It's a policy they brought with them from Europe where they discovered they can make money hauling folks and their bikes and where all their buses are equipped with bike racks.