Posted by
"Mind and Morals" Michael Coyne on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:00:00 PM
"Administration officials said consumers were going to pay an extra $700, anyway, for mileage standards that had already been approved. The Obama plan adds another $600 to the price of a vehicle, a senior administration official said, bringing the total cost to $1,300 by 2016."
Quote from article here:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6821107&rss=rss-wls-article-6821107
$1300 per car goes to government standards, $2000 per car goes into greedy Union pockets (if you buy a US-made car), and automakers have to meet Government limits. Where would automakers be if that $3,300 were able to go into the actual QUALITY of the vehicle, rather than Big Government and Union Heads sucking it up?
Who suffers? We, the consumers, suffer. Here begins the end of prosperity, and the end of Free-Market Solutions.