[talmand]

Why is that a risk? What's wrong with ordering a car from Amazon?

Or do you mean it's a risk from the dealers' perspective? Because I get that and personally don't care.

[jrockway]

Because I get that and personally don't care.

But you donate less money to political candidates than the auto dealers do, and so here we are.

[talmand]

Thus, why I don't care if they fail and are wiped out.

[jbigelow76]

I'd love to order a car from Amazon too. My last car buying experience was a multi-day beat down, in the end the best I can summarize it: "I probably got screwed, but they didn't screw me as hard as they wanted to."

I don't care about the dealers either, but as another poster stated, dealers have their own lobbying groups to make sure that the people that make the laws do care.

[gallerytungsten]

The risk is that a whole bunch of middlemen who don't add much (if any) value would get cut out of the equation. The dealers are well aware that their business model is despised by buyers, hence the forest of protectionist law that they've purchased over the years.