I’m starting to suspect that you may actually be Hugh Akston undercover. (Not sure who Billthedrill is, yet.)
This chapter is the start of what I believe makes AS so beautiful. Rand starts to guide us through The Effects of jiggering with the steady-state of the free market. What happens when you tell industry what they must produce? You get the Chevy Volt, which nobody wants. So the the Big Three are telling Washington that they should artificially inflate gas prices so people will want their stupid car.
Actually, Billthedrill is Hugh Akston. I’m just Eddie Willers trying to keep a railroad running.