Professor Elam

Well here we go again. As gasoline is now $3, Jerry Flint actually drove a Smart Car.  And he actually got 47 mpg.  Finally a report I can believe.

For most of what I do here in the Best SW City area, a SMART would make sense.  I drive to school, and sometimes to the shopping area on Hwy 67. One can head down Pleasant Run and avoid I 20 which is probably not a bad idea anyway, it keeps one away from the huge semis. 

Jerry makes a really creative suggestion in his article. Why don’t the Big Three (smaller and smaller Three? ) open one of their shuttered factories, hire folks from the GM job bank that have experience building cars, and build a joint design that really gets 40 mpg.  Good idea and I suspect that the state of Michigan would bend over backwards to help make that happen. And they could certainly ask for some Govt Help, say a tax credit for purchasers of the cars, Dems always like tax credits for some reason.

Here is another idea that would help.  I can only drive one car at a time, and there are only two drivers in my family.  Why do I have to pay another full insurance premium if I buy another car?  Seems to me that I should only be paying for the chance that an act of nature would destroy the other car sitting in the driveway while I would be driving the SMART.  That would be an incentive to buy a second more economical car.

So, Jerry estimates 25,000 national sales, is that all, will you be on board?  I would say it makes sense in Lancaster but not on I 35 to Denton and back.