| Have you seen the new Braroom Frank 20? Very | | | | The used car market will be where Joe and most |
| light weight. Gets 200 miles to the gallon. Has a 20 | | | | Americans goes for the next vehicle. 200 and 300 |
| horsepower engine and goes from zero to 30 in 2 | | | | thousand miles on the odometer will be standard. |
| miles. | | | | Engine rebuilders will have a ball. |
| Designed by Congressman Barney Frank with the | | | | Washington cannot make anyone buy the new |
| help of other astute Congressmen who are all | | | | "greenies". Good used cars will suddenly become |
| self-appointed auto experts. | | | | premium. Auto mechanics will be working |
| Maybe the Senatorial version might be more to | | | | overtime. At least there will be jobs in the |
| your liking. It is the Dodd Hummer with a huge | | | | industry. |
| 30HP engine. It even has room for an extra | | | | The new car market in the U.S. was 14 million |
| passenger. | | | | each year. With the new Congressional models |
| Now that Congress has taken over the auto | | | | they will be lucky to sell 7 million and most of |
| industry there will be some design changes. They | | | | those will be foreign manufacturers. Congress is |
| will be telling the public what they should be driving. | | | | killing the Big Three. |
| Unfortunately, it may not be what they want, but | | | | What got us in all this trouble was excessive |
| that is all Congress will allow to be manufactured. | | | | spending and now we are in debt up to our |
| General Motors will be renamed Congressional | | | | eyeballs. Yet Washington has lowered interest |
| Motors. | | | | rates and is trying everything to get Joe to start |
| All new cars must be green (not the color) and | | | | spending again. Anyone with two brain cells to rub |
| gas will be measured by the thimble full. They will | | | | together won't; he will be saving and paying off |
| be smaller and slower and emit perfume instead | | | | debt. A year ago the savings rate was near zero |
| of carbon dioxide. No more Corvettes. | | | | and today it is reported to have skyrocketed to |
| If Congress does try to run the auto industry | | | | 5%. |
| (and it sure looks like they are going to) sales will | | | | Washington will not allow foreign car manufactures |
| disappear except to a few who are politically | | | | in the states to produce anything but green cars. |
| correct. | | | | If the buyer wants a real car the used car |
| Bicycles may make a big come back for short | | | | market will be the place to go. |
| runs to the store. | | | | Whatever car a person is driving today it would |
| Joe Sixpack is not going to have his Congressman | | | | be a good idea to take very good care of it for |
| pick out his car. Joe likes big, fast cars and trucks | | | | the next 10 or 20 years. |
| and won't pay $35,000 for a sluggish greenie. | | | | It might be that long before real cars come back. |