Things get worse for the Big 3...
One of those odd twists of capitalism is that you often have two options when it comes to buying a car in the United States. Buy an "American" car made in Mexico, or buy a "Japanese" car that was at the very least assembled in the United States. Personally, I prefer to buy Honda, especially since most of their cars sold in our market now are assembled by American workers. Let some of the profits go to Japan. I don't know which is worse: keeping the life-support juice flowing to the three ghouls based in or near Detroit or knowing that my "American car" was probably built on the other side of the border.
Buy (North) American... or something like that.
Anyway, this is a good trend. It makes more sense for companies to do their production locally where they are going to be selling if it's a big market. Easier on the import duties, better public relations with the people in the market.
Americans will soon have another feel-good reason to buy a Prius.
Prius production in the U.S. will begin in late 2010 at a plant currently under construction in Blue Springs, Miss., Toyota announced Thursday.
So, aside from saving on the cost of gas through better gas mileage and raising environmental awareness, buying a Prius will soon be a product made by American workers...or at least assembled by them.
One of those odd twists of capitalism is that you often have two options when it comes to buying a car in the United States. Buy an "American" car made in Mexico, or buy a "Japanese" car that was at the very least assembled in the United States. Personally, I prefer to buy Honda, especially since most of their cars sold in our market now are assembled by American workers. Let some of the profits go to Japan. I don't know which is worse: keeping the life-support juice flowing to the three ghouls based in or near Detroit or knowing that my "American car" was probably built on the other side of the border.
Buy (North) American... or something like that.
Anyway, this is a good trend. It makes more sense for companies to do their production locally where they are going to be selling if it's a big market. Easier on the import duties, better public relations with the people in the market.
I don't know whether it's ignorance or cognitive dissonance (not saying they're mutually exclusive), but I've never understood why many southerners will on the one hand bad mouth northerners, and on the other hand buy American cars like it's some patriotic act. Many, maybe most, of the East Asian cars sold in the United States are either assembled or actually built in the South. You buy a new Prius, it's from Mississippi. That Honda, Toyota or Hyundai puts money into the hands of southern workers.
I just don't get it.
I just don't get it.
Wow...It seems the arcticle was written by a child.
To you, I guess that drowning is better than burning to death.
The issue is much more complicated than that. Yes...Toyota is creating jobs in the US, but the profits get funneled directly to Japan.
It's great that you think that it's good business sense for the US to allow any and all foriegn companies to set up shop in the US, while closing the market for the US to do the same in their country.
It will drive down the US's standard of living, and equalize the global economy. I always thought that it was nice to live in a country where the standard of living exceeded the average, but I am happy that there are people like you who believe that a lower, but equal, standard of living is a far superior way of life.