Look at the Cash for Clunkers program a few years back. People were paid to bring in their old, but still functioning cars, and buy new ones. Many of those old cars were still fully functioning, and not that old. We have the production capacity for so much more than we actually make. You&#x27;re right, they can predict sales so they&#x27;re not making 1,000,000 units more than they can sell, but they CAN make that many. The thing about overproduction is, like you mentioned, it doesn&#x27;t last for long. Demand drops, they shut down plants, they close shifts, they fire workers. Believe me, I live in Michigan and have many friends and family workers who work (or worked) in the auto industry. We have the ability to churn out hundreds of millions of more cars every year than we actually do. Like you said, we don&#x27;t do that because it doesn&#x27;t make financial sense.<p>But just because we don&#x27;t overproduce right now doesn&#x27;t mean we couldn&#x27;t if we wanted to. I&#x27;m still not seeing where production is the problem. If production was the limiting factor, they would be running the factories 24&#x2F;7 instead of shutting them down. The only reason to underproduce is to increase demand. But if you lower supply and demand doesn&#x27;t increase, you&#x27;ve already been overproducing. So if they&#x27;re closing factories, it means they&#x27;ve been overproducing.