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

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

áThe same car would be available in Canada or Mexico for less than $5,000.

Dealing with Competition

áMeanwhile, automakers would be lobbying Congress to outlaw bicycles and airplanes, just as the drug companies try to do with herbs and nutritional supplements.

áAll auto imports would be banned. If you drove a Toyota down from Canada, you would be arrested.

áCar dealers would be bribed with money, free vacations, free food, and free cars by automobile sales representatives to push certain cars.

Safety

áCars 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.

áDriver'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.

áSafety 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.

áAfter 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.

áAny federally mandated warnings about car safety problems would be printed in small type on a tiny label hidden under the driver's seat.

áDriving certain cars would cause side effects like loss of sex drive or full-body muscle pain.

Advertising

áCar companies would heavily promote new models each year, which would be no different from the ones they were selling 30 years ago.
áCar companies would invent reasons for you to buy a dozen or more cars.

áAutomobile 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.

áCars 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.