Critical Analysis of Lyla Fox's essay, "Hold Your Horsepower"

In Lyla Fox's "Hold your Horsepower," I am reminded of an ironic saying about teens who get jobs to pay for their cars and cars to get to their jobs. It's a vicious cycle. You see, if they quit their job, they can't pay for their car and if they lose their car, they can't go to work and if they can't go to work, they lose their job and...etc, etc. This claim is …

…Hold your Horsepower," does not take into account all of the many different reasons for teens to have jobs or cars. There are financial reasons why students have jobs other than making car payments. Having a job could be a positive experience for a teenager and many other things interfere with schoolwork other than jobs. Her evidence is limited to her own personal experiences and therefore is not enough to solely base an argument upon.