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Originally Posted by The Gaijin
Maybe $6 a gallon gas will kill the SUV and McMansion obesity epidemics, give us a real energy policy and make us realize who our friends really are.
Nobody said it would be easy.
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Nope.
All it will do is inspire another few years of grandstanding politicians passing even more useless legislation that will only eliminate more choices and freedoms and impose greater burdens on what's left of the middle class.
The SUVs will simply go down in price/value/demand, meaning that every zit-faced 17-year-old will be rollin' in a 2002 or 2003 Escalade with 22" dubs because mommy & daddy won't want the SUV anymore to get to work (too expensive). But the kids don't have anything better to spend their money on so they'll end up with 'em. Just what we need. Thousands of dumb kids at the wheel of 7,000-pound unstable death machines with poor brakes. Fun times ahead.
WRT McMansions - most of them are already built. Not gonna' change anything. If anything, the bozos in gubmint will want to "solve" the problem by forcing even more stringent energy codes. Now I'm all for efficient buildings and sustainability, but it should be a CHOICE by the owner/developer, not mandated by some do-gooder politician that doesn't know jack schit about construction. If so-and-so wants to piss their money away air conditioning the outdoors or whatever, why shouldn't they be allowed to do it? As long as they're paying for it, what's the problem? FWIW I always try to suggest the "good" solution (the sustainable one that considers life-cycle costing, etc.) but ultimately if the owner says, "give me the cheapo, less-efficient one and I'm okay with paying more in the long run", it's their call is it not?
Point is, this will be just another thing that gets exploited by our over-controlling moron bureaucrats to levy more restrictions/taxes/controls on the populace. Then they'll step back and pat themselves on the back for how great our "free" country is.