This political website pretending to be an automobile website has been all for stripping people of their right to travel freely by automobile without being tracked by or needing permission from government piece by piece for many years now.

Worse yet it is moaning that the anti private automobile stuff they have been promoting could be used against their political beliefs.

So let me get this straight, for the last decade or so anyone who mentioned all the evils that ANPRs, congestion tolls, tax by mile, kill switches, driving ‘assists’, and a variety of surveillance and anti private automobile legislation & regulation could do was some sort climate change denying tin foil hat wearing…

It was ultimately California law that allowed companies to screw over port truckers and likely local truckers who used older rigs. It was even covered on this website some years ago. What happened was California banned their old trucks. Simply banned them on environmental grounds. Companies put them on lease-to-own…

The “speed kills” types ignore things like lane discipline, signalling, turning into the near lane, not cutting people off, etc and so on. Everything to them is because someone was going ‘too fast’. It really means a non-zero speed was involved.

You invoked the example of Japanese makes first offerings in the USA. Have you ever seen those cars in person? Were you even alive back then to have ridden in one? They are incredibly cheaply made and Chicago road salt causes them to dissolve in short order.

I argued the opposite, a small gap between europe and usa.

Japanese makes got into the US market before most of the regulation also Japan has had similar regs so the difference between the home market and the USA isn’t that big. Same with Korea, Europe, and so on. It’s a small gap to bridge, it’s more annoying than anything because it’s fine details that are different.

Chinese…

The revolution is never over however and thus ‘ban cars’ means exactly what it means in plain language. I’ve been around awhile I remember when every car made before 1980 was to be banned. The eighties weren’t even over. This is simply a plea to get the inch that become 3 miles.

Because the USA is a high cost market. The compliance costs are enormous. None of their existing products could legally be sold in the USA. They would need to develop entirely new models. The expense just isn’t worth the uphill battle for customer acceptance. Easier money almost risk free selling what they already…

Why would Chinese makes even bother with the highly regulated US market? Their home market and many export markets around the world are much more promising without all the development costs.

You will own nothing and be happy.

How much do they sell for in Japan? Take that and add import costs and some consideration for the hassle. If it’s close to or more than $19K then it’s a nice price, otherwise no.

But that assumes there are people who want these cars in the USA. If that interest does not exist then the market value of the car is lower.

Oh for f*cks sake it’s not an absolute argument and you’ve just strawmaned it to death. You turned one sentence into a diatribe in your own mind.

Also what does libertarianism have to do with anything in this thread?

First off, the modern USA isn’t the only nation in the world. The world has many governments and many…

Stargate SG-1, Voyage to the bottom of the sea, and other things I’ve forgotten.

I dislike all forms of authoritarian collectivism including fascism.

It’s amazing how prone you and others are to strawmen. I didn’t use the word socialist. But your ‘not real socialism’ argument is noted. I also argued it was a government tendency. In fact the USA, still hanging on to a few vestiges of liberty and capitalism still has mens rea. It’s these vestiges that will keep an…

Elected and appointed office holders aren’t employees in a government run business sector. Think more an employee at a state run liquor store in states that do that way. Imagine such a person accidentally selling Jack Daniels for 59 cents a bottle because it rung up as say a stick of beefy jerky and nobody noticing…

Countries where employee mistakes in nationalized or otherwise government controlled business sectors may become criminal? Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Cuba, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and countless others.

Galt was a name commonly used in fiction long before Ayn Rand wrote her novel, but every modern day ignoramus reads Galt and a couple other names that Rand simply reused either for lack of creativity or laziness and thinks they refer to her works. Ever watch/read science fiction? The name Kowalski (or Kawalsky as…