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Re: Why Americans dont' buy small very efficient cars... Posted by Caarma [Email]  (#592)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Caarma) on Sun, 31 May 2009 09:46:10
In Reply to: Re: Why Americans dont' buy small very efficient cars..., Jim, Sun, 31 May 2009 08:52:50 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
You really don't think that our guzzlers of the 70's would have become efficient on their own? What about emissions standards? None of these would have become better without government intervention. Nobody makes people buy SUV's instead of wagons and it wasn't the government. People just like them more, partially from marketing and partially from cultural, psychological reasons. People do buy minivans for practical reasons because few people think they're cool like SUV's.
Again, you misinterpreted my comment. I'm not proposing a fascist state in which the government controls our every daily move. I was just listing examples of how we don't do what's best for us in the long term.
Based on your principles, we should just have regulation-free anarchy then. We would still be using leaded fuel and driving guzzling vehicles without any safety features or basic safety standards. We would have used up a lot more oil by now. Look at Europe. They implemented high taxes on fuel and it made people move to smaller vehicles. I'm guessing you don't agree with that either. I'm not advocating taxes that high, but if the government slowly ramped up gas taxes, we would all be driving more efficient vehicles. In our republic, no politician who advocates higher gas taxes will get elected. So then, we have CAFE. I think a sliding scale gas tax/rebate depending on the fuel efficiency of the vehicle you buy would be the ultimate solution, but CAFE is already established. No system is perfect, but that doesn't mean you don't need a regulation system of some kind.
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