January 5, 2009
Mon Dieu!
Not a very Happy New Year for French auto insurers:
The French Interior Ministry has increased its provisional count of the number of cars torched over New Year's Eve from 445 to 1,147.
Hat-tip: Pillage Idiot, who mentions "land of brie, wine, and car torchings. I omitted "body odor," because that's understood." I guess the Sarkozy spirit of Hope and Change hasn't made it to Baltimore.
Let Them Eat Cake Posted by John Kranz at January 5, 2009 5:58 PM
Hmmm... Could this be the start of Detroit's new initiative to stimulate demand?
Posted by: Boulder Refugee at January 5, 2009 6:38 PMBoulder Refugee: what's this, a conspiracy theory? I think this can be logically disproven in four simple steps:
(1) Detroit's "Increasingly Smaller Three" don't have the gumption to fire up the Car-B-Q in order to increase demand, and frankly, aren't in the business of meeting consumer demand - otherwise, they'd build cars people would actually buy;
(2) The UAW, being a union, have the thugs and muscle to pull this off, and the cojones to try it - but since union auto workers aren't required to actually produce cars in order to retain their employment, they lack motive;
(3) The notion of the automakers and the UAW to cooperate with each other in order to conspire to do this as a team defies the imagination. Work together? Feh.
(4) Even if you were to serve up every Citroen and Renault in France as a flaming Crepe Suzette, you don't think the French would actually buy Chryslers to replace them, do you?
Did you ever think we'd find a way to bash both the French and the automakers in a single-subject post? This is a cause for celebration.
Posted by: Keith at January 5, 2009 11:47 PMTouche'!
Posted by: Boulder Refugee at January 6, 2009 10:54 AM | What do you think? [3]