"Chalo" wrote in message
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Tom Kunich wrote:

Chalo wrote:

I believe that both car manufacturers and car buyers will persist in
their folly until there is no way to continue, and they will do so
with the blessings of the government.

You don't understand the free trade system? IF people want large cars the
builders should build them. The government should stay entirely out of
this.

Fat SUVs are not about what the people want; they are about what the
automakers wanted.

I suppose that they became the largest selling vehicles because people are
way too stupid to know what they want.

They cost less to make, but they sell for more--
all by circumventing the safety and efficiency standards that had been
set for cars. (And by marketing to people's baser motivations.)

Fancy that - the vehicle in which deaths and serious injuries are the lowest
per vehicle are more dangeros according to you.

I don't like SUV's - I drive a compact. But those who want them should buy
them. The auto makers are paying a substantial portion of the labor market
and interference in that will have extreme and grave effects on the economy.

It isn't just cars that will be passing into history. Before long,
the price of air travel is going to catch up with oil prices. The
airlines are now buying time with a combination of petroleum futures
contracts and net losses. Jetting around won't be the stuff of middle-
class family vacations for much longer. But relying on American-style
right-wing politics and big business to get us out of this predicament
means there will probably be a lot fewer middle-class folks in a
position to regret that fact.

Chalo, your opinions are interesting. But in my opinion they are inaccurate.
Let's wait and see who is correct.