Comparison of car manufacturing companies to giant international drug companies
What would car manufacturing companies be like if they were run like giant international drug companies?
That question is answered in a hilarious recent column written by Mike Adams, an alternative healthcare columnist. Here are a few of Mike’s observations:
- A typical car might cost more than $4 million – that’s a 30,000 percent markup over cost
- The same car would cost around $5,000 in Canada
- Car companies would lobby Congress to promote the regulation (or outright ban) of alternative forms of transportation such as bicycles and air travel
- It would be illegal to buy or sell foreign-made cars inside the U.S.
- Car companies would conduct their own safety tests and, whenever possible, would keep negative results secret
Mike lists a total of 15 ways car companies would be different if they were run like drug companies, and the list is definitely worth a read (newstarget.com/009844.html).
But I have one item to add to his list
#16: Car companies would encourage parents to buy full-size cars for their adolescent children to drive
