It's not rotten..it's a small island..everyone knows everyone, and their business..incestuous almost..they try to protect each other..there's ony one paper.....here's a silly exasmple..yet it makes the point..It's almost impossible to rent a car on Aruba..there's only a very limted supply..the government strictly limits the number of rent-a-cars on the island..why don't they bring in more....supposedly it's for safety, so a bunch of drunk tourists don't kill everyone..the real rewason..one of the best jobs on the island is taxi driver..they have a huge lobby...no rent a cars means you need a cab to go anywheres..so..
"so a bunch of drunk tourists don't kill everyone"
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Any precendent? How many Arubans have been killed by drunk tourists vs. how many tourists have been killed by Arubans?
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It's almost impossible to rent a car on Aruba..there's only a very limted supply..the government strictly limits the number of rent-a-cars on the island..why don't they bring in more....supposedly it's for safety, so a bunch of drunk tourists don't kill everyone..the real rewason..one of the best jobs on the island is taxi driver..they have a huge lobby...no rent a cars means you need a cab to go anywheres..so..
It's almost impossible to rent a car on Aruba..there's only a very limted supply..the government strictly limits the number of rent-a-cars on the island..why don't they bring in more....supposedly it's for safety, so a bunch of drunk tourists don't kill everyone..the real rewason..one of the best jobs on the island is taxi driver..they have a huge lobby...no rent a cars means you need a cab to go anywheres..so..
No doubt it's some of what you say but it is a small island. More cars equals the needs for more & larger parking lots and roadways to handle the traffic...a big waste of expensive real estate. I've read on travel sites that most of the cabs in Aruba are owner operated...and that's a better situation for Aruba & Arubans than turning the business over to some foreign-owned car rental business & turning Aruban entreprenuers into employees. And, it should be noted that the fares are based per trip, not per passenger...and that indicates to me that they want to minimize the # of cars on the road. Look at NYC...lots of the people who live there don't own a car & don't know how to drive.