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Buying American Cars What Does It Mean?

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With parts coming from everywhere, does "Buying American" have much meaning anymore? Is quality and price the bottom line?

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#15713 of 18083 Re: Shopping "American" this weekend... [steve_] by gagrice

Dec 11, 2012 (8:46 pm)

Replying to: Stever@Edmunds (Dec 11, 2012 7:07 pm)
If I could helicopter into the Smithsonian for several days, I would enjoy DC. Of course I would want several SS police to protect me from the riff raff that calls that cesspool home.

#15714 of 18083 Re: Shopping "American" this weekend... [gagrice] by Stever@Edmunds HOST

Dec 11, 2012 (8:57 pm)

Replying to: gagrice (Dec 11, 2012 8:46 pm)
Not to worry - the riff-raff seldom leave the congressional office buildings.
 
C'mon, set another one up for me.
 
“If you stopped buying everything not made in the United States, the primary victims would be poorer people throughout the world,” Black says.
 
Black adds that international trade is an important part of our local economy, for example, the Midwest exports a lot of meat and corn.
 
“You can’t have it both ways,” he says, “you can’t have a campaign that says we won’t buy anything from the rest of the world and they have to buy all our stuff, that won’t work.”
 
Push to “Buy American:” Can it Help the Economy? (fox4kc.com)

#15715 of 18083 Re: Shopping "American" this weekend... [steve_] by tlong

Dec 11, 2012 (9:23 pm)

Replying to: Stever@Edmunds (Dec 11, 2012 8:57 pm)
Not to worry - the riff-raff seldom leave the congressional office buildings.
 
Steve - you've outdone yourself!

#15716 of 18083 Re: Shopping "American" this weekend... [tlong] by tlong

Dec 11, 2012 (9:25 pm)

Replying to: tlong (Dec 11, 2012 9:23 pm)
“You can’t have it both ways,” he says, “you can’t have a campaign that says we won’t buy anything from the rest of the world and they have to buy all our stuff, that won’t work.”
 
This is the point I've been making for a long time. People don't like imported cars, but where are the complaints about the Mideast Oil? Nobody likes to import oil, but they scream bloody murder when V8's aren't available, or when gas prices get too high. Oh, and Saudi Arabia likes Suburbans, too.

#15717 of 18083 The new US manufacturing by tlong

Dec 11, 2012 (9:28 pm)

"Much has been made of consumer 3D printers like Makerbot's Replicator and the open-source RepRap. But for those not yet willing to shell out thousands of dollars for their own machine, Shapeways offers 3D printing as a mail-order service. And its new Queens, NY factory is now the biggest production facility for consumer 3D printing in the world. Just one of Shapeways' industrial 3D printers, which use lasers to fuse nylon dust, can print a thousand objects in a day, with far higher resolution than a consumer machine as well as intricate features like interlocking and nested parts. The company hopes to have more than fifty of those printers up and running within a year. And it also offers printing in materials that aren't attainable at home, like gold, silver, ceramic, sandstone and steel."
 
If GM was innovative, they could be printing thousands of body panels and interior parts with those puppies.

#15718 of 18083 Re: The new US manufacturing [tlong] by gagrice

Dec 11, 2012 (9:42 pm)

Replying to: tlong (Dec 11, 2012 9:28 pm)
As long as GM is owned by the Federal Government, they will be against any innovation that could hurt the Unions.
Not sure 3D printing is advanced enough to know out car parts as fast as the giant presses.
 
It is a technology that is revolutionary and will kill more jobs than it creates.

#15719 of 18083 Re: The new US manufacturing [gagrice] by Stever@Edmunds HOST

Dec 12, 2012 (6:50 am)

Replying to: gagrice (Dec 11, 2012 9:42 pm)
Definitely disruptive technology. GM could put printers at the dealer and you could get a tie rod made while you wait (licensing will prevent you from making it at home).
 
I'm going to have another me printed up in Sydney so I can avoid that long plane flight.

#15720 of 18083 Re: Shopping "American" this weekend... [steve_] by bpizzuti

Dec 12, 2012 (6:57 am)

Replying to: Stever@Edmunds (Dec 11, 2012 8:57 pm)
Know what else we export? Cars. Unfortunately, it's not the American car companies exporting them.
 
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/12/americas-hot-export-article-import-cars- /

#15721 of 18083 Re: Shopping "American" this weekend... [bpizzuti] by gagrice

Dec 12, 2012 (8:17 am)

Replying to: bpizzuti (Dec 12, 2012 6:57 am)
The D3 have to make cars people in other countries want. Any exports are good exports, so we should be thankful for foreign automakers building cars here for export.

#15722 of 18083 Re: The new US manufacturing [tlong] by busiris

Dec 12, 2012 (9:28 am)

Replying to: tlong (Dec 11, 2012 9:28 pm)
3- D Printer technology is truly amazing, but as of yet, it only "prints" items in a relatively non-durable material. Great for making molds and casting pieces, but not an actual useable part.
 
Jay Leno has a video demonstrating how he made a casting mold for a part from one of his old cars and then used it to duplicate the original, which was a cast iron part ( IIRC) that had broken in half.
 
If the technology advances to the ability to make durable material pieces, it will certainly change the way manufacturing is done.
 
Think about it... The repair shop doesn't need to keep shelves of non-complex parts. Just call up the item you want to duplicate on the computer interface, then hit "print", and as Jackie Gleason used to say..."And away, we go!"

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