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Subject: ""We're not ready to launch this program yet," Lyons said,"

Author:
Rick

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Date Posted: Friday, January 29, 07:15:55pm

they better get ready soon. If anyone else dies while they're making up their minds, Toyota may be toast.

You know what this reminds me of? Tom Clancy wrote a nodel a few years ago.... God I have it in a box but can't recall which one it was. This is really quite similar... I gotta find it.

A fictional car company in Japan is making the most popular car in America, and they are assembling them in the States. An American company submits a proposal to the company saying they can make gas tanks cheaper than the car company can make them in japan and ship to the states. The company refuses, saying the American tanks are of lower quality.
So Two of the cars are traveling along a US highway. One, the sports model, contains two younf women. The other contains a family of five. The sports car clips a tractor trailer and causes an accident and the fuel tank explodes. The family crashes into it and everyone burns to death.

The Japanese do not take responsibility for it so an American senator gets a bill passed. This is whats amazing. The new bill doesn't ask for anything except equal treatment. They want every single Japanese car brought into the US to be treated exactly the way every single American car is treated when imported into Japan. Which means that every single Japanese car has to be inspected from bumper to bumper, as it is taken off the ship and before it can leave the shipyard. So all of the carcarriers are now sitting at anchor outside of every American port. No ships are heading back to Japan for more cars and cars are piling up at japanese shipyards. Finally the Japanese car companies have to stop production, throwing every single Japanese auto worker out of work.. as well as everyone who supplies car companies and everyone who supplies companies who supply car companies.

Of course, in the book Japan declares war on the United States again. But they lose again. This situation with Toyota just reminded me of that book. I gotta read it again.

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