[QUOTE=HoustonB;6788325]This writer, like all main-stream-media contributors is still largely in denial.
On the one hand, small economical cars would be good for us, but even smaller more economical cars for the rest of the world would be bad.[/ QUOTE]

No. Small economical cars here are clean and efficeint. In India/China, small economical means nasty,filthy, oil belching 2 stroke engines that turn the cities into a wasteland. That is the difference.
Small, clean cars for everybody else is fine, but they won't do that.
We may not have much sense, but we have enough not to build 2 stroke street cars. They don't.