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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Bad Deal Math: I have a Product, But Please Don't Buy It
updated on Mon Aug 03, 2015 15:48 by [email protected]
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How often do you hear a car manufacturer (or any other manufacturer) tell
people to "not" buy their product because they lose money if you do?
I highly suspect this is nothing more than a purposely calculated publicity
stunt, but please consider California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as
We Know It.
Sergio Marchionne had a funny thing to say about the $32,500 battery-
powered Fiat 500e that his company markets in California as “eco-chic.” “
I hope you don’t buy it,” he told his audience at a think tank in
Washington in May 2014. He said he loses $14,000 on every 500e he sells and
only produces the cars because state rules require it.
So who’s forcing Marchionne and all the other major automakers to sell
mostly money-losing electric vehicles? More than any other person, it’s
Mary Nichols. She’s run the California Air Resources Board since 2007,
championing the state’s zero-emission-vehicle quotas and backing Pres
ident Barack Obama’s national mandate to double average fuel economy to 55
miles per gallon by 2025. She was chairman of the state air regulator once
before, a generation ago, and cleaning up the famously smoggy Los Angeles
skies is just one accomplishment in a four-decade career.
Spare Me the Sap
Automakers could just as easily price this crap at a point where they make a
profit. They don't, because they want the publicity.
Here's the bottom line: Companies don't beg consumers to "not buy" a line of
their products, unless they think favorable publicity will make up losses
elsewhere.
Moreover, I highly doubt companies (counting tax breaks) are losing what
they claim they are. Can we see full cost accounting, please?
Bad Deal Math
Even if this is a bad deal for the automakers, please don't assume it's a
good deal for consumers.
Government adds inefficiencies in everything it does. It's quite likely that
energy mandates are a lose-lose proposition for everyone involved.
Corporations Lose Money on Product Sold
Consumers Overpay vs. Gasoline Pump Savings |
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