[dragnet2]

American love foreign made goods and by an overwhelming margin prefer them to expensive American manufactured products.

You American love foreign made good...stupid fat yankee... cost less than you bad goods...You shop Walmart, you like better...We sell cheap tire, you buy with couple dollar, you go go on tire...You have *goodyear*...Hahah

[bert]

We do import some tires. I think most are made here, at least the good ones.

When shipped, tires are mostly air and shipping is very expensive.

My thought would be that the Union City plant was not competitive with other American plants

[kempo]

Who in the hell would want to go through the process of building a tire plant in this country? EPA and law suits out the ass. 60 miles from where I live a company has been in the process of building a “clean coal” power plant for the past 5 years. The EPA and the Sierra Club has cost the company millions of dollars and set backs.

Who wants to invest their money in this country? It's too expensive and too big of a gamble.