Hello Dbcooper292,
the people in germany believe that they have the right to drive
as fast as the car they can afford to buy will go. here, we
believe that whatever we can afford, we can drive. NO THANK YOU
to social engineering. let the marketplace decide which and how
many vehicles (whatever) are made. if people don't buy them,
they'll go away. if people WANT them they shall have them.
anything else is SOCIALISM. or worse. ....
the most interesting point in all this is the point about
safety, comparing it to the honda accord. when the EPA does
safety crash tests, they ONLY report the results within a given
weight class. thus the accord can be higher rated, but if it
gets hit BY an SUV, it will be the looser, much as the
conservationists wish they could repeal the laws of physics.
the EPA never shows they results of crashes BETWEEN classes.
when the results did start coming in, i read in AUTOWEEK, that
it wouldn't be long before, instead of touting the relative
safety of travelling IN an SUV, they would be reporting on the
danger the SUV's posed to those being hit BY them. and sure
enough, the very next week, there was the report about death on
the highways being caused by those selfish people only trying
to save themselves by buying a bigger (relatively) safer
vehicle and endangering all those around them with their
(wicked!?) excess. ... one cannot get around it, the heavier
the vehicle, the safer it is to be IN, all other things being
equal, in a crash occuring between two vehicles.
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Best regards,
Bill mailto:pythias@pacifier.com
"66 Sprite
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