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You must also realize that opting for a smaller car, or even not at all, is part of the intended effect: to drive down overall consumption of imported inputs. True, that a side effect of this policy is that the nation as a whole becomes poorer with an overall lower standard of living, but what if that lower standard of living is all that the nation can afford given what it produces?
That is the real basic point here.
For the past few decades, the nation financed its living standards on borrowed money, and this cannot go on forever.
Very well put.