Never mind that aluminum overall soars, the price to fix autos containing the aluminum will jump. Whole parts, especially engines, will need to be replaced and cannot be simply pounded out with a hammer. Previous repairs costing $700 will be $3700. After driving it a few years, folks will simply walk away as they do with houses and the landfills grow and grow.
Precisely right. Autobody shops will decline. Wholesale replacement of entire body panels will greatly increase. It is very difficult to form and mold alumninum. Cars will become disposable. The poor, when they can afford to buy a car, will get a used car full of crumpled body panels. The overall appearance of the nation will become like that of a third-world country.
It doesn’t take a very deep crystal ball to see all this coming, does it?