Small shortage in Canada as cars shipped to U.S. -- "all your subcompact are belong to us!"

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TORONTO -- Americans are buying so many smaller vehicles in the wake of higher gasoline prices that they're causing product shortages in Canada.

Dealers "are complaining that they can't get entry level product," Dennis DesRosiers, president of DesRosiers Automotive Consultants, said yesterday in a research note to clients. "Ever since the Americans got religion and started buying smaller vehicles, markets like Canada around the world are having a hard time finding available product in the system."

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=d28da3f2-70af-4133-8c55-e2d3b56b98a9

[madokie]

1. I'm just glad that 80 percent of our driving is a mile to and from work for my wife

Our vehicles are paid for and no more than we drive its not necessary for us to add to the demand for small cars, just yet that is.

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2. That "flight from the suburbs" graphic the other day was interesting.

The new urbanization.