In addition : in 1970 I spent winter quarter with my fellow architecture students in mexico. Funniest sight : brand new retread tires on all the cars but the SIDEWALLS were rotted down to the cords. The mexican government had decreed that NO foreign(american/others)rubber tires could be sold in mexico, HOPING that they could make their own rubber tires/industry. Mexican INDIANS competing with american/european/japanese engineering genius??!! Thus they had Taller retread stations all over the place : brand new retreads and rotted away sidewalls was all they had. Hydrogen and stupidity : the 2 most common elements in the universe....
Amen............FRegards