I just walked down to Hungry Jack’s (that’s Australian for Burger King), and on the way I had to walk through KFC’s carpark and drive through. Saw a new XR6 Turbo waiting to order in the drive thru. Wife and kid in the car - lucky she’s got that much power, really; 240kW of turbo six cylinder in a rear-drive chassis is fantastic for drivers who couldn’t care less about vehicle dynamics and driving technique. Especially in the wet.
Anyway, my point was that the same car drove from the KFC drive through into the Hungry Jack’s one. The two restaurants are not thirty metres apart, but they couldn’t get out of the car to go and buy the food. I know I have done the same. No wonder we’re having oil wars, wars to get access to oil and wars around oil pipelines. Let alone that obesity is such a problem - the USA leads but Australia sure isn’t far behind.
I admit I was buying Hungry Jack’s myself; but at least I didn’t drive there in my high performance big capacity engined generously family-sized automobile. I don’t own one of those, but that’s only due to financial constraints, I’m certain that before now I would have owned a car like that if it didn’t send me broke. I’m starting to change my opinions, though.