The New York Times reports on the imminent introduction of the Nano in India as the world's cheapest car. It will be "a boon to families all over the developing world that currently speed around town on overloaded two-wheelers, often with an infant perched precariously on someone’s lap."
The article provides a wonderful quote from an Indian man about his planned purchase of a Nano:
“I’m buying it because it gives a sense of freedom,” Mr. [Vishal] Bhatia wrote,
“freedom to go to someplace in uncrumpled clothes, with my deodorant still being
able to mask my body odor. But above all to see the look in my family’s eyes
when they see it in person.”
At a price of about $2000, the Nano will allow many people to move up to the greater comfort and safety of a closed vehicle with four wheels rather than a two wheeled motorbike open to the heat and rain.
One would think the Nano would be met with universal support for such an opportunity to improve the lives of people in the third world. Unfortunately, many in the environmental movement want to rain on this parade as they do most improvements in the lives of people.
The article indicates that "Environmentalists, however, have decried the Nano and its low-cost imitators as an impending disaster." Nobel Prize winner Rajendra Pachauri and head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was quoted as saying that he was “having nightmares” about the car.
In reality, the car will emit less pollution than many of the scooters it will replace. It will take far more dangerous and uncomfortable scooters off the roads of third world countries rather than simply adding to the congestion on the roads.
Don't expect facts and concern for mere humans to overcome the doctrines of the global warming religionists.
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