Toyotagate: Congress makes Toyota look like a Saint

10,000 deaths per year

34 deaths. That's what Toyota's unintended acceleration scandal has caused.

Yes. It's horrible and Toyota deserves some vilification, nonetheless, as I wrote for Soultek.com, "for more than a decade Congress let 10 - 20,000 people die every year because it was good for the Big 3 and it was good for Big Oil.

I mean, c'mon. What would you do if you knew you could save 10,000 lives per year by forcing automakers to build a slightly less profitable vehicle?

Well, for decades Congress certainly hasn't done much. The US auto industry is just too important, so important, in fact, that 10,000 lives per year have been expendable. Yet, Congress is in an uproar over 34 deaths?

How did these 34 deaths become so much more important than the 10's of thousands killed by unnecessary rollover deaths?

How can Congress be so biased? So blinded? Isn't it obvious?

We the people have only one voice left, our vote, and while many might believe the vote to be irrelevant and meaningless, I assure you, the vote can have meaning if we work together and vote against the incumbents.