15 Ways the Auto Industry Would Change if it Operated Like Drug Companies What would happen if you had to buy your car from a company that operated in the same way as the pharmaceutical industries? Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, came up with 15 unsettling changes that would occur.
Cost Your car would cost $4.5 million, a 30,000 percent markup over cost. The same car would be available in Canada or Mexico for less than $5,000. Dealing with Competition Meanwhile, automakers would be lobbying Congress to outlaw bicycles and airplanes, just as the drug companies try to do with herbs and nutritional supplements. All auto imports would be banned. If you drove a Toyota down from Canada, you would be arrested. Car dealers would be bribed with money, free vacations, free food, and free cars by automobile sales representatives to push certain cars. Safety Cars with no seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, or other safety systems would be declared perfectly safe by the FDA, which would instead focus on the dangers of bicycles. Driver's Ed programs would be cancelled nationwide, and people would be encouraged to buy new cars rather than repair damaged ones or avoid accidents in the first place. Safety tests showing that cars were dangerous would be buried, and scientists who produced such results would be prevented from ever conducting car safety tests ever again. After being sued by customers injured in the cars with no safety systems, automakers would further lobby Congress to pass laws protecting car companies against class-action lawsuits. Any federally mandated warnings about car safety problems would be printed in small type on a tiny label hidden under the driver's seat. Driving certain cars would cause side effects like loss of sex drive or full-body muscle pain. Advertising Car companies would heavily promote new models each year, which would be no different from the ones they were selling 30 years ago. Car companies would invent reasons for you to buy a dozen or more cars. Automobile advertising would be filled with pictures of happy, healthy, energetic drivers, but the cars would break down constantly, fail to perform as promised, and quickly stop working. Cars would be sold to you with extra features like a sunroof, air conditioning, or a navigational system, but when the car arrived none of these features would be included, just as drug companies exaggerate the "multiple health benefits" of their products. Dr. Mercola's Comment: This article is spot on. If you enjoyed it half as much as I did, then please forward this page to a friend or relative by using the blue "E-mail to a Friend" link in the very top upper right section of this page (right below the search box). You can also include a short note with something specific for them as to why they might want to consider subscribing to the newsletter to improve their health. Unfortunately, this parody does not apply only to the pharmaceutical industry. The obscene business practices of companies that sell dangerous chemicals in the form of drugs, processed foods, and toxic products, coupled with the industry-friendly laws of a bought-and-paid-for Congress, have slowly evolved into a deadly system that would be clearly insane if applied to any other aspect of life. When it comes to protecting your health from deadly chemicals, neither the government nor the industries that sell the dangerous products have your best interests foremost in their minds. Here are a few more analogies showing how deranged the system currently is: If the movie industry were run like the food industry, any film critic who wrote a negative review would be sued under the terms of "movie disparagement laws" passed by a heavily lobbied Congress. The movie producers might not win the case, but the critics would be bankrupted by legal fees. If restaurants were regulated like the chemical industry, then restaurant owners would perform their own health inspections on a voluntary basis. Only the very largest chain restaurants would even do that. If the police operated like the EPA, they would only arrest people for five very specific types of crime, like murder with a blunt instrument committed on a Tuesday. They would ignore all of the others. Usually, they wouldn't even bother to investigate. If the school system were run like the FDA, students would test themselves at home and then simply tell the teachers how they did. The school system would depend on fees paid by the students' parents, so they would pass nearly everyone. Of course, only wealthy families could afford the fees -- poorer students would be unable to get a high school diploma at all, and would be barred from most jobs. Your safety from dangerous chemicals is clearly largely in your own hands. Play it safe and minimize your exposure to them: Rather than becoming dependent on drugs, maintain your health with proper nutrition and exercise. Buy organic, prepare your own food as much as possible, and avoid fast food at all costs. www.mercola.com/2005/aug/18/15_ways_the_auto_industry_would_change_if_it_operated_like_drug_companies.htm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
