Short memories or no memory

So now there is talk in Congress about new laws to require automakers to build cars that get more miles per gallon.

Where were these people in the 1970s and 1980s? Do they remember the Vega, the Pinto, the Mustang II, the Monza, the Horizon .... you get the idea. These things were small chassis with aluminum-foil bodies. Even my beloved 1980 Scirocco was way too small for me to drive today.

There is a reason people like me drive SUVs: our children. No way I'm putting my family into a car too small to survive a crash. Tax me; raise gasoline prices; have me pay more for insurance. I don't care.

Don't try to send me back to the 1970s, because I'm not going.