Sunday, February 15, 2009

Why You Can't Buy a New Car Online | Mother Jones

Just another example of the type of thing you will never hear from Rush, Sean, Bill, Michael or any of the rest of the Republican echo chamber. This is why Rush and the boys are paid millions to keep angry white males pissed at everything.



Why You Can't Buy a New Car Online Mother Jones: "Since the late 1990s, car dealers have used their considerable political clout to pass or better enforce state franchise laws that in many cases make it a criminal offense for an auto manufacturer to sell a new car to anyone but a state-licensed car dealer. The laws governing who can sell new cars are among the most anti-competitive of any domestic industry. By creating local monopolies for dealerships and prohibiting online sales for new cars, they constitute a major restraint on interstate commerce; in 2001, the Consumer Federation of America estimated [pdf] that the laws added at least $1,500 to the price of every new car."

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