[DeeOhGee]

Rising production costs can be due to several things, but some of the more obvious culprits are unions and prohibitive federal regulations - EPA, OSHA, EEO, etc. I don't know what the feds can legally do about unions (is Indiana a right-to-work state?), but they CAN roll back some of the regs.

[Gabz]

Rising production costs can be due to several things, but some of the more obvious culprits are unions and prohibitive federal regulations - EPA, OSHA, EEO, etc.

BINGO on the regulations...most especially the EPA and OSHA ones.