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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (237780)6/17/2005 9:33:11 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (3) of 1578815
 
Mindmeld, American cars are indeed too large, but in case you haven't noticed, Japanese cars are also getting larger. The #1 reason why GM is losing while Toyota is winning is quality. (#2 reason might be the labor and management infrastructure within GM, but that's another debate.)

Meanwhile, the local elementary school right next to my home is still filled with minivans and SUVs. Seems to me that families still like paying for gas guzzlers at the pump. Why? Because SUVs are convenient and safe, and to a parent, that's worth more than preventing the greenhouse effect or bankrupting the Saudis.

Of course, you can go against the free market and put huge preventative taxes or tariffs on oil, but then that's an artificial way of making oil more expensive. And like I said before, other countries are more than happy to buy up the oil that we don't want.

Tenchusatsu
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