Have you ever been to Spain or Portugal? I have, and I've been to most major US and many European Cities. The streets of LIsbon and Barcelona are clean, absent pot holes or cracked sidewalks and the light rail in Barcelona is modern and very clean. In Europe the people have adapted to the high cost of fuel, Smart Cars are ubiquitous (sorry, that mean plentiful) and a huge SUV is a rare sight.
I have also been to Europe and when you take away the history it is a shithole for the most part. There are very few European country that have even the GNP of our poorer states. Our welfare queens in the US live in larger dwellings and eat better and have more possessions than the average Eurotrash.
Post WWII economic growth has been almost twice as more in more capitalist US than it has been more socialistic Europe. Since their ain't no such thing as a free lunch somebody always has to pay for the welfare and it always hurts an economy.
By the way, most of the European countries are tremendously in debt with low economic growth and Spain almost went bankrupt a few years when the idiots tried to adopt a "green" economy.
If you want to drive around in a stupid little midget clown car then go right ahead Sport. Nobody is stopping you. However, I prefer my Tundra truck and I sure as hell don't need idiots like you using the government to force me into your clown car. If you don't like it you can kiss my Cracker ass.