Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The Industry


The fate of Detroit isn’t a matter of economics.
It’s a tragic romance, whose magic was killed by bureaucrats, bad taste and busybodies.

We embarked upon life in the fast lane with our new paramour.
It was a great love story of man and machine.
The road to the future was paved with bliss.

The car ceased to be object of desire and equipment for adventure and turned into office, rec room, communications hub, breakfast nook and recycling bin—a motorized cup holder. Americans, the richest people on Earth, were stuck in the confines of their crossover SUVs, squeezed into less space than tech-support call-center employees in a Mumbai cubicle farm.

Click here: To read the full article, written by:
P.J. O’Rourke for the Wall Street Journal


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