[TankerKC]

The unions would have fought to ban cars to save their jobs at the buggy whip factory.

[abb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddites
The Luddites were a social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested—often by destroying mechanized looms—against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt were leaving them without work and changing their entire way of life.