Questioning the auto industry.Having read your question-and-answer column in the January/ February February: see month. 2006 issue ("Ditching ditching, n See ditch. SUVs and Breeding Beefalos," Earth Talk), I was wondering something about the U.S. auto industry. If smaller cars and hybrids are both better for the environment and sell better than the ridiculously large SUVs, why doesn't does·n't Contraction of does not. the American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of car industry move toward smaller, more fuel-efficient cars? Isn't the free market supposed to move towards what the consumer wants? Maybe the domestic car companies wouldn't be reporting record losses if they would only listen to the consumers and give them what they so obviously want, more eco-friendly, fuel-efficient cars. Neil Matthews-Pennanen Berkley, MI |
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