01-27-2021, 06:24 PM
(01-27-2021, 06:04 PM)mamabug Wrote:(01-27-2021, 05:47 PM)David Horn Wrote: If you go anywhere outside the US (or some of the world's oil patch states) gasoline is expensive -- even in oil-rich Canada. The truly poor tend to drive junkers, so incentives to buy newer vehicles that consume less might make sense. It's been done before. Then again, for the far too many people who think that over sized and over powered trucks are really cars, having the full cost falling on them is a virtue, IMNSHO.
Except, a lot of the people who own 'over priced and over powered' trucks are those who need them for work. The desire to 'punish' those committing the 'sin' of owning a vehicle the clerical class of the environmental movement has arbitrarily decided nobody needs increasingly falls on those who are only guilty of not being an educated, white collar, urban dwelling elite.
The strongest rationale is that one lives where there is wildlife. A raccoon got thrust into the engine compartment of my brother's car and it did over $2000 in damage. A raccoon!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.