Winter tires in Quebec - a nearly billion dollar business

  Time to do some logistical breakdown to spotlight how incredibly big the mandatory tire change, complete with deadline, is to Quebec's economy.
   In recent days m any motorists have been going every day to the garage in an attempt to get their tires done, only to wait for a few futile hours before giving up as the joints are jammed and the lines are long.
    It's becoming a bigger deal than Christmas shopping.  
   One would have to wonder whether the provincial authorities put a lot of thought into the overall implications of passing this law, as the logistics are staggering.
   Consider that there are roughly six million cars in Quebec let's say each tire change costs about $80 on average.
   That's $480 million going from the pockets of motorists into the grimy wallets of Quebec's grease monkeys.
   Now timewise: if each of those six million cars needs 45 minutes to process, that brings your total to four million hours, in other words 228 years of man-hours putting tires and rims on every year alone!
  And all of that doesn't even take into account the cost of tires.
   Let's say you pay $600 for your winter tires and they last for four years. That means that you pay about $150 a year for your tires.
   Multiply that by six million cars- that's $900 million that we're spending on winter tires in Quebec.