OfTheCross
Veteran

Prices might go up a bit

Automation going to surprise a lot of people who think manufacturing jobs are coming back en masse.
i guess the major downside of NAFTA keeping car prices down was the environment. maybe if the price of cars went up like everything else, there would be better public transportation, less suburban sprawl, etc. although our low subsidized gas prices also "help" in that area as well.
and because there would be less cars that means the auto workers wouldn't be better off if NAFTA didn't exist.
i'm not talking about now, i'm talking about back then when it was instituted. how we live today might be different. or maybe incomes would have risen with the increase costs of car ownership and nothing would have changed in terms of planning and development.It would take many years for that to come to pass
People would hold onto their current cars longer
i guess the major downside of NAFTA keeping car prices down was the environment. maybe if the price of cars went up like everything else, there would be better public transportation, less suburban sprawl, etc. although our low subsidized gas prices also "help" in that area as well.
and because there would be less cars that means the auto workers wouldn't be better off if NAFTA didn't exist.
