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Originally Posted by Undertoad
The only way you could accomplish that fallback would be with widespread Communism and even that seems to have fallen out of favor in most of the developing world.
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Amazing how right wing extremists promote that defeatist concept. For the same reason that ant-American right wing extremists in the 1960s said that mileage standards would force everyone to only drive Ford Pintos. Extremists feed on fear and lies.
The tiniest Ford (a Pinto), back then only got 18 MPG. And most larger cars only got 8 or 10 MPG. Why do all my Hondas do 30 or 40 MPG? Innovation by patriotic Americans - in this case Japanese citizens.
Put $30 of gasoline in a car. How many dollars of gasoline actually move the car? About $4. Obviously there is plenty of room for innovation. But extremists fear what moderates do - innovate.