It's another highly protected industry, and again, when we talk about removing that protection, the balloon goes up about job losses. No one considers that because new cars are so expensive, more of us are forced to drive old cars which cost us more to maintain. No one speaks up for the damage this is doing to the environment. You might say, well these problems are nothing besides a job loss, and I'd be the first to agree. The problem is, the people who suffer the most because of these difficulties are the unemployed and those on the poverty line.
Rich people have disposable income.
Poor people don't. There is no denying that. People have had to change and people generally don't like to do that. What has to be remembered is that it's a cost-benefit game. If we hadn't gone down this path, we'd be a far less attractive investment centre than we are, so the flourishing technology industries, which will take us into the next century, would have gone overseas.