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KlatooBNikto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 07:40 AM
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10. Those fuel efficient vehicles do not make a profit for GM or Ford because
they have to go head to head against many fine Japanese, german and Korean cars. The GM/Ford models need enormous rebates to move them off the dealer lots cutting profit margins to nothing.In the big gas hog market, GM and Ford have a monopoly and can dictate prices because the Japanese do not have many models there. So, GM and Ford have become dependent on those big gas hogs for their survival.As gas prices go through the roof, the attraction of those models has worn and GM/Ford are in big trouble. That is why I say, Bush has unleashed a war whose consequences have come to bite us in the ass.
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