Bumpers. When did we decide that car bumpers are a bad thing? Someone tried to explain it away by saying that car makers eliminated the rubber and metal bumpers of our past in favor of plastic to make cars lighter. Lighter cars use less gas so in a roundabout way they were aiming for fuel efficiency. I don’t buy it. That doesn’t explain how SUVs sprang up at the same time that bumpers disappeared. So instead of a bumper that takes a few scratches and dents that might need replacing after a few run-ins with a shopping cart or an old lady backing out of the bank, the plastic sheet collapses and needs to be replaced at great expensive when it’s tapped. A fender-bender becomes a major repair. I don’t remember agreeing to plastic bumpers.
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