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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (58409)4/9/2008 9:10:13 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) of 543175
 
<<<It wasn't health care cost that drove the domestic auto companies to design SUV after SUV while the Japanese companies put their efforts into hybrids - it was dumb management.>>>

Health care costs US Manufacturers an additional $2000.00 per car. That is a huge amount to overcome.

The SUV is a popular product that has a very high profit margin.

European and Asian manufacturers didn't come up with the SUV because the cost of gas is twice as much in their home markets. Governments in Europe and Asia tax gas to moderate consumption.

The problem is not with US management. US universities are the envy of the world. We turn out the best and brightest. The problem is with the dogmatic assertions of certain lobbying groups in the US.
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