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Date Posted: 15:54:37 1/11/23 Wed
Author: Jasper
Subject: Stephen Moore from the Takimag

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You would think that U.S. automakers would understand a basic red, white and blue reality, which is that Americans have a special and long-standing love affair with their cars. They aren’t going to trade in their Mustangs, Camaros, Cadillacs and trucks for an EV. For many of us, this would be akin to taking away our firstborn.

What’s sadder still is that the Japanese seem to understand American car buyers better than the execs in Detroit. Honda and Toyota were the first to recognize that people wanted more fuel-efficient cars when gas prices more than tripled in the 1970s.

All of this means that if GM, Ford and Chrysler speed forward with their commitment to convert to 100% EVs, I’m going to have to break my long-standing pledge to my parents to “buy American” and never purchase a Japanese car. The American companies will have given me no choice. Sorry, this is 2023, not 1923, when Henry Ford said you could have a Model T in any color you wanted, as long as it was black.

Incidentally, as this “woke” green energy fad fades into the sunset, as it almost assuredly will, and the American auto companies see their sales crash, they’d better not come begging for yet another taxpayer bailout.

https://www.takimag.com/article/big-three-making-cars-people-dont-want/

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