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Originally Posted by marketsmart
GrouchAdmin, can you offer an educated opinion on the topic or do you just like to bash other peoples ideas?
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Oh, no! I've been called out for calling a spade a spade!
The truth is: Marketing has been around forever, even your goddamned name has the statement in it. If people are told to buy new cars, eventually, they will (Hell, eventually, they'll have to).
I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, although I will admit that I do believe that 'big oil' has kept larger companies from producing more fuel-efficient cars, I do not believe that they have a direct hand, other than DIRECTLY SETTING THE FUCKING PRICES.
There's no goddamned conspiracy about it: it's supply and demand. If you're willing to pay it, and can afford it, you'll do so. This is why a pack of cigarettes are $5.00 in California, and ~$1.00 in Latin America.