I want to hone in on cheaper cars briefly. Throw out airpolution control, throw out fuel injection and bring back the carburator, bring back rear wheel drive, and wala cheaper car, and not to mention a car the man of the house can repair. Bring down health care costs by having bigger cars that people walk away from the crash instead of getting hurt. Cars today are junk.
All of the things you want to throw out are the result of government. Extremely sophisticated pollution controls; not just a PCV valve. Engines that are sealed so that no body can work on them. Computer controls that are outrageously expensive and impossible to work on.
The worst government regulation is the CAFE standards. They are mandatory miles per gallon standards that are almost impossible to meet. And getting worse. So you get fuel injection (which improves mileage and reduces unburned fuel/ reduces pollution) but is extremely expensive. Anybody can fix or rebuild a careburetor.
The only reason we have so many SUV’s is that they are considered to be trucks and not cars. So they aren’t covered by the CAFE standards. But the liberals are working hard to control SUV’s. One of my friends is extremely angry about SUV’s but he drives one himself because he needs to be able to haul a lot of stuff for his business. People need larger vehicles to carry around their families and for errands; those oversized golf carts just don’t do the job. But liberals are anti family.
You see very few station wagons on the road nowadays. They are a family car. If you have a family, you need something like a station wagon or a van (which is a truck all tarted up to look nice). All those CAFE standards are basically anti-family.
When you add up all those government rules, each one contributes to making life more and more difficult for families. Mothers HAVE to work because the overall tax burden is so extremely high and all the rules makes it very difficult for moms to stay at home.
Getting back to the original post about the poorest cities. What kind of cars do inner city people drive? They drive old cars and clunkers and jalopies that they can get for very cheap. But under the new rules, those cars generate too much pollution and get poor mileage and under the cash-for-clunkers programs many of them were taken off the road and melted down.
So all those allegedly well-meaning safety rules, and pollution rules, and CAFE mileage rules and cash-for-clunkers rules only hurt the poorest of the poor.
That did not go unnoticed on the conservative website that linked this page.