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Old lessons still serve
Re: Monday’s (Feb. 2) editorial from the Miami Herald and Nick Anderson’s cartoon. Eighty years ago my second-grade teacher told her class that we were living on fossil fuel and that some day it would run out. As a result, I’ve driven small, economical cars all my life.
That’s not to say I didn’t drool the first time a Lincoln Navigator zipped by me on the freeway. But I resisted, and my last car was a Geo Metro that got 50 miles to the gallon, seated four, had air conditioner and heater, radio and tape player, marvelous brakes, and, with the back seat folded down and the hatchback up, made a serviceable small truck. I commuted happily all over California in it.
How could a second-grade teacher in a small country schoolhouse 80 years ago be wiser than the CEOs of GM, Chrysler and Ford today? I think that what we all have to learn is that “Greed is not good” and revise our worldview accordingly.
Ann Echegoyen
Spokane