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supertrope07/31/20251 replyview on HN

If US car sales were capped at 10 million cars per year manufacturers would immediately focus on their luxury brands and leave their regular brands out of stock. When you keep strict zoning, give NIMBYs veto power, let environmental review be weaponized as a delay tactic, you are capping new construction.


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xnx07/31/2025

They did exactly this when supply chain disruptions limited the amount of cars they could produce.