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Originally Posted by SlingShot
I could never understand why some people have such a RTC factor in their life. Change is a good thing and should be embraced. Without change, life becomes very stagnate.
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Change is not necessarily a good thing. It makes no sense to fix something that is not broken. In the free market world, change is usually good, because in that scenario, it is generally done only when improvements are being made.
In the coercive regulatory world, change is usually a bad thing. That the change is only happening because artificial outside agencies are forcing it is a good indication that it is change for the worse, because otherwise, the change would be naturally occurring on its own.
Changing from a 330hp V6 to a 270hp turbo 4 that gets similar mileage, but is higher maintenance and costs more is not good change. It is getting less and paying more.
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Originally Posted by SlingShot
In other words in life you change the things you can and embrace the things you can't.
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I think that's what the Polish said in 1938.
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Originally Posted by SlingShot
I don't think anyone will disagree with you there. The thing is the government isn't limiting our choices. The burden is being put on the industry as a whole with a new set of standards.
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Please explain the reasoning behind this. If increasingly expensive mandates are being put on "the industry" that inevitably get passed on to the buyer, while continuously limiting the choice to the consumer (because most of us have finite money to spend on our cars...we can't all buy the ZL1), how are our choices not being limited? Just because your choices aren't being limited does not mean most of our's aren't.