Originally Posted by
PaulRivers
Are you familiar with the Mylan EpiPen scandal? Epi-pen is a device for people who have severe allergic reactions to the point where if they accidental encounter whatever they're allergic to, they'll die. An epi-pen injects them with a drug that - well stops from from dying if used as soon as their reaction starts..
???
So, the bicycle bell industry is like the pharmaceutical industry?
Really?
Originally Posted by
PaulRivers
That’s based on estimated prices of around $100 for an EpiPen two-pack in 2008, up to around $500 (now $600 after the article was published I believe) today.
??? What does this have to do with
bicycle bells?
Originally Posted by
PaulRivers
If a law is based requiring "mandatory xyz", then the companies that make product xyz have most likely paid money to lobby for the law.
Okay...
If you have to go to a completely different industry to make your argument, you aren't likely to be very convincing.
Originally Posted by
PaulRivers
A mandatory bell law isn't going to kill or seriously injure anyone. It's just a bell. But if bike shops are required to sell their bikes with bells, someone is going to make more money selling them. It's not a super secret backroom conspiracy - it's an out in the open (well a lot of it) regular thing businesses do.
If it's "not some super secret conspiracy", you should be able to find
some sort of evidence for it.
Bike shops are not required to sell bikes with bells.