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The additional to the European and Asian release cars, even the ones produced by US companies of which there are many, is that the average American consumer of such a vehicle has to import it, making it more expensive and therefore no longer economical and in fact a luxury. The performance isn't an issue to the ignorant who see "a car as a car" and "a truck as a truck" and don't really think about power or capability as much as class status and the "cool factor" of owning a little foreign car so that they can tell all of their Hipster friends how much more Green they are as they smoke their clove cigarettes and IM people on their 3G smartphones about how much they hate vehicles larger than a Prius because Jack Johnson's blog told them so, sipping lattes with names longer than the ones you find at a traditional Mexican wedding. The gas tax is one they'd be likely to pay because it's European and therefore "better" in the eyes of an ignorant, guilty-rich, wanna-be-proletariat hipster like we have in most American cities.

So when the Hipsters and Celebrities and CEO's and politicians who just, "don't have time in their busy lives" to learn anything about purchases, other than more expensive must be better, backwards technology and poor money handling are sure to follow. For years our elections have been a celebrity death match and we have stood by and allowed it. We've been paying the piper for that mindset for that many years.

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