>>2008846In my area individual lots are very small. There's no economy of scale in working them using bigger tractors. Everyones standard of living is essentially carried completely by agricultural subsidies alone. As a result you can be negligent and still be just as well off. Everyone around me keeps getting bigger and heavier machinery every few years because in the smooth brain it signifies status and probably gets your son a bride or something like that.
The fuel here is subsidized too btw. If you use it for 'agriculture'. So as long as it goes into a tractor. You then use that to go to places like Mc Donalds and to haul freight because you don't need the same license to move the same weight here if you use a farm tractor and go 60 instead of using a trailer tractor and go 80.
