Between the Chinese price competitiveness and the vulnerability the car faces vis-a-vis 3 ton roadtrains ("Fords" and "RAMs")...
... we can be sure the US will do lots to ban importing these.
... we can be sure the US will do lots to ban importing these.
But then again this is also the same demographic that lines up to pay $50,000 for a truck that delivers marginal value compared to a $6,000 used Nissan or Mitsubishi.
Especially when the majority of truck owners don't haul anything heavy (concrete, tile, metal).
America was arguably made great via the free markets and market forces. People know this instinctively. However, these same firms now push this idea to become rent-seekers, and I don't feel like we've seen an adjustment from the left of politics to counter this, or point out economic market failures.
cf: safety regulations. Seen as hurting business. Yes, they stop individual companies making super-normal profits. But that's because they're stopping these same companies from selling the common good for profit.
Wildly off on a tangent, I wonder if we're not going to see someone running on an anti-corruption platform at some point soon, where corruption is explicitly inclusive of: lobbying, rent-seeking, gerrymandering, and so on.
I am biased. I hate regulation because it isn't applied fairly.
My gf's parents had their dry cleaner business shut down by NY state, who fined them $50,000 for allegedly failing to dispose of chemicals. They never paid, NY state never sued.
However, Lawrence Aviation Co DID dump chemicals in NY state that permanently destroyed the water supply in Port Jefferson NY.
The owner was fined $100,000, a small percentage of his networth compared to my gf's parents who are paycheck to paycheck.
He served 1 year in prison despite potentially poisoning the 100,000 people who were on the local water supply.
:)
This is what makes any free country work. Respect for private property which includes money earned from one's labor to make the purchases wanted without recrimination by the government we live under.
As for trucks, most actually are used to haul something but just like passenger cars many will have time where they are not fully employed to the extent their ability permits. just driving into work the majority of cars carry only a fourth of the people they could carry and many of them can be fifty, sixty, or even more tens of thousands of dollars. Don't worry about it, focus on yourself and be better
Also, in case of accident, the amount of steel in those trucks protects their drivers by increasing the lethality to other vehicles. So, I don't entirely not worry about large trucks driving around me.
And then there's fuel efficiency. Other people's bills at the fuel pump is not my business, sure. But then, there's a pretty solid scientific consensus that man made climate change is on course to have a drastic effect on living conditions on this planet. But I concede that you're free not to believe in the scientific method if you don't want to.
So focus on yourself, but do pay attention to others.
Our current account deficit is half an order a magnitude larger than the #2.
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