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Automotive News & Views Buying American Cars What Does It Mean?
7263 messages, Last post on May 27, 2009 at 4:31 AM
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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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Replying to: fezo (Dec 02, 2008 5:27 pm) 
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 02, 2008 5:28 pm) I've been up to the UP a few times. Always in the summer. I remember seeing pictures up by the Mackinac bridge showing the area under multiple feet of snow. Just amazing. i remember once looking on realtor.com at houses in Sault Ste Marie. I could live in a mansion there for what my house in NJ is worth. Of course I'd spend all my money heating it... |
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 02, 2008 4:44 pm) Unless it was built by illegal ali...*ahem* I mean, temporary undocumented migrant day laborers.  It's hard to say what's American these days...the Ford built in Mexico, or the Subaru built in Indiana. |
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Replying to: lemko (Dec 01, 2008 7:48 am) 
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62: "Article in paper yesterday that lawyer work is being outsourced to India"...NO...NO...NO...say it isn't so...    Yeah, it had to happen...let's face it...if someone over there understands English, and it is a boilerplate contract, why not have someone check it for errors???...and even matters more complex... While I rail at the union (UAW) for their stupid demands, I also realize that my field is also subject to price competition, and we don't like it either...but we are at least smart enough to acknowledge it exists and we have to compete to win... I used to do real estate closings...we received $600 per closing, not great for the work involved, but it was OK...then someone down the street offered to do them for $300...I knew then that it was time to get out and let the cheapest guy win...I could not do it for $300 for the time involved...competition sucks, but it IS reality... steve: yeah, you busted my chops, but when did I lower the markup to ONLY 200%???.....
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Replying to: marsha7 (Dec 02, 2008 6:32 pm) |
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Replying to: marsha7 (Dec 02, 2008 6:32 pm) I'm sorry Bob, but I'll have to partially disagree with you. I'ts one thing to have an AMERICAN LAWYER doing RE closings for less than you (or the $150 divorces), but someone in India doing legal work (I don't care how sublime it is) somehow is just plain WRONG. I mean, if they miss something YOU are still liable, as you would sign off on their work (not to say an American can't mess up). I get the whole "global economy" thing, but I just have a problem w/ us being the world's caretaker when they won't take care of their own, and we haven't taken care of our own. |
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Replying to: motorcity6 (Dec 02, 2008 3:08 pm)
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Replying to: lemko (Dec 03, 2008 6:56 am) 
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Replying to: m1miata (Dec 03, 2008 8:48 am) http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/01/09/las-vegas-to-the-get-the-1000th-gm-allis- on-hybrid-bus-this-month/  According to a study conducted in 2006 by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, transit buses with GM-Allison's hybrid technology deliver up to 75 percent better fuel economy than traditional transit buses, and reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) up to 39 percent, particulate matter (PM) up to 97 percent, carbon monoxide up to 60 percent and hydrocarbons up to 75 percent. The report was published in December 2006, and can be viewed at http://www.nrel.gov/vehiclesandfuels/fleettest/pdfs/40585.pdf.
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