This seems like a good thing....why are you complaining
Why can't good news just be good news?
An Indian automobile company has just released the $2500 Tata (available in India). It is an ultra-compact car that is meant to bring transportation to the masses. This seems like a good thing, right? Finally an affordable solution. Finally an automobile company that isn't raking you over the coals. Oh, but wait. People are up in arms.
You see, critics are saying that the car is too affordable. The argument is that too many people will buy the car, and there will be traffic problems and environmental problems. Okay, so let me lay this out for you. Some group of environmental killjoys with cars don't want a bunch of less fortunate people to have cars because of the chance that there will be increased traffic. In other words, there needs to be people that are poor without cars, so that the car-owning middle and upper class can get to work on time.
I am glad that the Western way of life has finally made its way to India. What's next for India? Surely they wouldn't get involved in sub-prime lending.
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An Indian automobile company has just released the $2500 Tata (available in India). It is an ultra-compact car that is meant to bring transportation to the masses. This seems like a good thing, right? Finally an affordable solution. Finally an automobile company that isn't raking you over the coals. Oh, but wait. People are up in arms.
You see, critics are saying that the car is too affordable. The argument is that too many people will buy the car, and there will be traffic problems and environmental problems. Okay, so let me lay this out for you. Some group of environmental killjoys with cars don't want a bunch of less fortunate people to have cars because of the chance that there will be increased traffic. In other words, there needs to be people that are poor without cars, so that the car-owning middle and upper class can get to work on time.
I am glad that the Western way of life has finally made its way to India. What's next for India? Surely they wouldn't get involved in sub-prime lending.
******Exciting announcement***********
The PTPWHQ (Pete the Planner World Headquarters) is proud to announce the hiring of a new intern. We are now shaping the impressionable minds of American. God help us all. The intern doesn't know it yet, but he will be blogging. Shhhhhhh. Don't tell him.
Petey,
You're terribly short sighted on this one. The "western" way of development has proven its self environmentally destructive and reckless with resources that cannot be readily replaced. This is the perfect example of "do as we say, not as we do." Our infrastructure (mistakes) are already in place and we cannot easily change, the future of the developing world is still yet to be determined. There has to be a better way... I'd like to not see millions of cheap gas cars zipping around India if that fate can be avoided. I hear that it was 70 degrees in Indy this week... First week of Jan.? Probably no big deal, let's not worry about that now.
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