15 Ways the Auto Industry Would Change if it Operated Like Drug Companies

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15 Ways the Auto Industry Would Change if it Operated Like Drug Companies

 

By Mike Adams, The Health Ranger

 

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

 

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Your car would cost $4.5 million, a 30,000 percent markup over cost.

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The same car would be available in Canada or Mexico for less

than $5,000.

 

Dealing with Competition

 

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Meanwhile, automakers would be lobbying Congress to outlaw

bicycles and airplanes, just as the drug companies try to do with

herbs and nutritional supplements.

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All auto imports would be banned. If you drove a Toyota down

from Canada, you would be arrested.

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Car dealers would be bribed with money, free vacations, free

food, and free cars by automobile sales representatives to push

certain cars.

 

Safety

 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Any federally mandated warnings about car safety problems would

be printed in small type on a tiny label hidden under the driver's seat.

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Driving certain cars would cause side effects like loss of sex

drive or full-body muscle pain.

 

Advertising

 

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Car companies would heavily promote new models each year, which

would be no different from the ones they were selling 30 years ago.

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Car companies would invent reasons for you to buy a dozen or

more cars.

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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.

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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.

 

 

News Target July 22, 2005

 

Dr. Mercola's Comment:

 

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Unfortunately, this parody does not only apply 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:

 

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Rather than becoming dependent on drugs, maintain your health

with proper nutrition and exercise.

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Buy organic, prepare your own food as much as possible, and

avoid fast food at all costs.

 

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