Cheap cars = expensive gasoline

I have a feeling that this $2,500 car will make us pay $10/gal for gasoline.

I think that people like Mr. Tata are doing a very socially irresponsible deed. They are targeting markets which have done perfectly well without wide availability of personal vehicles to this point. They have well developed public transportation systems, so bringing these cheap cars will only waste resources, increase pollution, and cause for crazy traffic in the cities. Some may say - "hey, you have two cars, and neither one of them gets close to 50mpg! Why can't those people?!" Well, I live in suburbia, the land of no public transport. If there was a bus I could ride to work every day, I would gladly do so... I could really catch up on my sleep that way!

I think we are closer to electric cars than we may think... but more on that some other time.