Monday, January 5, 2009

Gas Guzzling

Articles of the auto industry troubles cannot help but condemn our addiction to gas guzzling.

Its not clear to me that this condemnation is all that sensible or innocent. Buying a large "gas guzzling" car is a rational, even environmentally friendly, descision for for families with more then two children. The Prius is not a family car.

The demand, then, that American automakers make fewer Caravans and more Priuses is, simply, a demand that they cater less to a certain sort of Americans (families with more then two children) and more to the sort now in power.

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