Saturday, April 02, 2011

Golf Cart-like "Smart Car" Claims Another Victim

In the U.K. another driver of a "Smart Car" is dead:

A woman has died and five people were rushed to hospital after a serious head-on crash in the Westcountry... Two vehicles were involved in the collision at the B3274 between Roche Cross and Castle-an-Dinas.

The female driver of a Smart Car, aged in her 60s, died from her injuries sustained in the collision... A Peugeot 308, registered to a Plymouth driver, was also involved in the smash...

Police say the five occupants of the Peugeot all have minor injuries.

The federal government -- through its oppressive and bizarre CAFE standards -- wants you to drive Smart Cars and similarly-sized vehicles. The government, in essence, tells you what kind of cars you are required to drive.

What kind of light bulbs you're allowed to purchase. How much water your toilets can flush. What types of shower heads you can install.

This out-of-control, massive, budget-busting federal government now intrudes into every aspect of our lives. And everything it touches turns to crap: from the housing market, to the banking system, to health care and beyond.

It has moved so far beyond the limits placed upon it by the Constitution that our current federal government would be unrecognizable to this nation's founders.


1 comment:

Whitehall said...

Here's a new one!

To change the brake pads on my newish VW, one has to access the electronic control module and retract the electric parking brake.

The dealers have a $6000 computer to do so. Minature version are available but when I went to the auto parts store, the one that rents special tools, I was told the state of California forbids them to rent such tools.

The government won't even let me work on my own damn car anymore!