When Gov't Makes Choices For You..................from Rico

Many people may not yet have 'heard' that Ford announced at its last stock holders meeting that it was getting completely out of the passenger car business in North America soon.

- They will be followed by GM, which has said quietly that it, too, will no longer make passenger cars for North America before too long.

 

WHY?

- The conventional wisdom is that (a) there is more profit in larger vehicles like SUV's and Trucks than there is in passenger cars, and (b) fortuitously the American consumer suddenly prefers SUV's and Trucks over passenger cars. This is partly true, like all good lies.

- What really happened is that consumers do not want to buy the passenger cars that automakers are allowed by government to manufacture, and they are voting with their wallets and buying bigger vehicles with bigger engines...SUV's and Trucks.

 

It's ALL about CHOICE.

- Unelected gooberment bureauRATs have decided for automakers what kind of passenger car they are allowed to make, and by extension these do-gooder pencil -neck eco-geeks have decided what kind of passenger cars consumers are allowed to buy.

- The logical result is that automakers have now chosen to no longer make under-powered dinky-sized passenger cars because they cannot sell them, and consumers have chosen not to buy under-powered dinky-sized passenger cars because, well....they suck. 

 

Once the "save the planet" ecotards have made passenger cars unavailable by virtue of their being grossly undesirable (if not outlawing internal combustion engines entirely; their ultimate goal and wet dream btw) consumers will still have a "CHOICE" however.

- It's called (a) ride mass transit systems while looking out the window at the big sedans and limousines still allowed for the ruling class and their apparatchiks, or (b) beating shoe leather along the sidewalk.