Your uninformed or misinformed opinion does not deserve a reply
Many of the problems that are driving auto manufactures out of business,
> beside some of the unreasonable regulations,
Might I remind you that the regulations were put into place by a Republican President and Republican Congress (the Congress was not Democratic until just over two years ago)?
is the Obama government want to
> forcing them to make more of the vehicles that buyers do not want to buy, > so
> they can make the types of vehicles buyers do want to buy.
Really? How is this want making any difference? GM, Chrysler and Ford lost billions of dollars. The latest results for the Michigan 3 were while President Bush was President.
Every manufactures best selling vehicles, foreign and domestic, are mid > size
> cars midsize SUVs and trucks.
Tell that to Toyota. Honda's best-selling vehicle is not a mid-size car or a truck (an SUV is a truck).
However, even if you were correct, that doesn't mean that a mid-size vehicle or an SUV can't get good mileage.
Some mid-size vehicles and SUVs get over 40 mpg city.
specific number of small and midget cars that buyers do not want to buy.
> There is not enough profit in small and midget cars to cover the cost of
> doing business in the US.
Really? Mini seems to be making out all right.
Mid size cars and SUVs and trucks can make a
> profit but they must be sold at higher in order to earn extra profit to
> subsidize the lower prices of the small and midget cars.
Higher? You mean higher elevations? What about those people who live on the coasts. Try to make sense man!
Well, it's called supply and demand. When the demand for small cars went up last summer and spring, so did the prices. And the prices of trucks and big cars feel fast.
If the manufactures are forced to sell even more small and midget cars, > the
> price of those type of vehicles will have to go way up. Everybody looses
> and more sales will be lost to imports that make cars for far less in > third
> world countries.
Bullshit. There are very few small cars that are able to be sold in the US in developing nations. The only cars that are made in developing nations that could be sold in the US without adding lots of capacity are some cars made in South America. I don't believe that any car makers has enough capacity in developing nations to sell many cars in the US. The only place where they have much capacity to do this and still make US regulations is in some places in Latin America.
The net result we be we will all pay more to buy the
> vehicles and some of the types of vehicles that many of us need, will no
> longer be available.
Really? The vehicles will still be available. And the prices will not go up substantially.
It is time to contact your Senator and Congressman
What if our representative is female? THen we don't have a Congressman.
unless you want to be forced to make your family side in less safe more
> expensive small and midget cars as was the case in the seventies.
Side? What do you mean by side?
Wise
> up Americans.
We did when we voted out the Republicans and put in office men and women who truly represent America!
jeff
"Green" means more "green" out of YOUR pocket
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> On Jan 26, 2:54 pm, Frog Britches wrote:.
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> > let us know how that 1 liter four cylinder shoe box does with a family
> > of four and a load of groceries. Going on vacation will require at least
> > two of the skateboards. Plan on doubling travel time and a
> > Chiropractor's visit at each end. Oh and don't forget an extra 10,000.00
> > for the initial purchase. Don't hit anything bigger than a gravel or you
> > will suffer spinal damage. or One advantage is if you break down you can
> > carry it to the side of the road.
>
> The irony of all this is that the people who will make the new laws
> will never have the laws apply to them.
> Do you think Al Gore or the president will ever ride in one of these > 35+ mpg cars?
> Ever been to D.C. where the senators have all their cars lined up? Row
> after row of full-sized luxury cars.