Sunday, August 24, 2008

Obama automaking magic

Obama has also promised that "we will get 1 million 150-mile-per-gallon plug-in hybrids on our roads within six years." What a tranquilizing verb "get" is. This senator, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, is going to get a huge, complex industry to produce, and is going to get a million consumers to buy, these cars. How? Almost certainly by federal financial incentives for both -- billions of dollars of tax subsidies for automakers, and billions more to bribe customers to buy these cars they otherwise would spurn.~George Wil

2 comments:

Chris Hedges said...

Did Obama promise everyone a free Dairy Queen hot fudge sundae, if he's elected? If he did, I'm there dude!

Chris said...

If he gets enough of the hollywood crowd together they can make a great marketing film and charge us whatever...that's one way to reach in our pockets...trust me he'll find more!!!