A review favoring one manufacturer over another would appear to mean little to his businesses, which sell General Motors, DaimlerChrysler, Toyota, Volkswagen, Subaru, Mitsubishi and Saab models.
The favored ones spend a lot of their new income on food, and unless supply expands very quickly, prices shoot up.
Over the centuries, moral philosophers have wrestled with the fact that patriotism is always a kind of bias, a disposition to favor one's own nation beyond what the objective facts would warrant.
Although they could simply be solved using a win-stay, lose-switch strategy, animals nonetheless appear to weigh the receipt or absence of reward as a piece of evidence in an uncertain environment favoring one response option or an alternative.
Such outbreaks of bittersweet sentiments are perhaps an expression of China's strong interest in its own history, or attempts at maintaining a sense of cultural continuity albeit a variant that favors one's personal experience of the past.
But while loving one's own family is always a private virtue, favoring one's kin in the apportionment of power is surely a public vice.
Diarmuid O'Connell, vice president for business development at Tesla Motors, said, "We would like to see a scientific approach that treats all technologies equally, instead of a haircut that favors one or the other".
"I don't want to get into a situation of favoring one show over another," Mr. Albrecht said.
