The United States government, if you haven’t noticed, owns the auto manufacturing industry, props up the last vestiges of “labor,” and soon will bail out the failed state of California. So this harmonizing of disparate interests is what a gracious person might call a “conflict of interest” and an honest person refers to as “racketeering.”
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According to Forbes magazine, less than two years ago Chrysler officially put the cost of meeting similar standards at $6,700 per vehicle. Cerberus, which is a private equity firm, threatened to walk away from the auto giant because the new requirements would have meant the end of Chrysler.
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