? you believe the government should force us or entice us to make decisions that are ?good for us.?
The cash-for-clunkers program offers a clear example, as Business Week explains in an article headlined ?America?s Fickle Small-Car Market.? (It has a different headline in the online version.)
And what happens when high gas prices or government handouts go away? Americans buy what they want. And it’s usually not compact cars but powerful family sedans and sport-utility vehicles. That presents a problem for automakers. Over the next 18 months, the industry is bringing to market nine all-new small cars and subcompacts. Now the clunker program is over, and gasoline, currently hovering at $2.62 a gallon nationally, is expected to stay below $3 for the foreseeable future.
Government distortion of the auto market has diverted resources away from the types of vehicles we really want. Those resources have flowed instead toward vehicles the government wants us to have.
Did you ask, ?What?s wrong with that?? Then I respond, ?Hello, progressive.?
By the way, Roy, thanks for letting me appropriate your theme.
