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White House Convenes Summit To Address Supply Shortage Crippling Auto Plants
NPR ^ | April 12, 20215:01 AM ET | SCOTT DETROW -

Posted on 04/12/2021 5:37:58 AM PDT by deport

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1 posted on 04/12/2021 5:37:58 AM PDT by deport
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China


2 posted on 04/12/2021 5:40:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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I wish I still had roll down windows and that little vent window.

I wish gas was still 27 cents a gallon. LOL

3 posted on 04/12/2021 5:40:23 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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So the meeting will have the same result as any other. Continue the crises. “Stay home, stay safe, wear a mask.”


4 posted on 04/12/2021 5:41:01 AM PDT by albie
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Today’s white house (capitol letters deliberately not there) residents think that those car chips come in bags with salt.


5 posted on 04/12/2021 5:41:56 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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I thought PDJT solved this with a MAJOR CHIP SET MANUFACTURE Taiwanese Company agreeing to set up in the USA.


6 posted on 04/12/2021 5:42:36 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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I remember driving with my Dad and he thought 27 cents a gallon in NY was outrageous, LOL. We’d drive up to his hometown of Montpelier, VT and the gas there was 20 cents, as I recall...


7 posted on 04/12/2021 5:42:40 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The avg 911 response time is 23 mins; the response time of a .357 is 1400 ft/sec)
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I remember when the Japanese went to help the Soviets by creating a robot-controlled transmission factory. Soon they had transmissions packing the warehouses because regular car production was at the same Soviet pace.

Everything is going to slow down, now - there will be many problems with getting anything done. To cut corners, companies will pollute more as officials look the other way. All part of the new USSA.
8 posted on 04/12/2021 5:42:58 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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“China”

Agree, it does appear that China is ‘turning the screws a bit’ here. Probably retaliation for Blinken’s strong statements on Taiwan.


9 posted on 04/12/2021 5:43:46 AM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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A White House “Summit”? That will solve the problem. Oh wait! They will find out that the shortage only effects fossil fuel burning cars and trucks. How stupid of me.


10 posted on 04/12/2021 5:43:48 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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If they announce across the board HUGE REAL import tariffs on all IMPORTED car parts then I am a Biden fan all the way.


11 posted on 04/12/2021 5:47:16 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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I thought PDJT solved this with a MAJOR CHIP SET MANUFACTURE Taiwanese Company agreeing to set up in the USA.

Yes, TSMC. But those processors are high end for iPhones and computers. The processors used in cars are less powerful and much cheaper. The car parts are actually more flexible with more I/O needed to make measurements and control the voltages needed to run the car.

12 posted on 04/12/2021 5:47:24 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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I can blame Joe that the stage 2 cam for my truck is backordered with no available ship date?


13 posted on 04/12/2021 5:49:53 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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Why don’t the Democrats just “deem” the chips into existence?


14 posted on 04/12/2021 5:50:32 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Pathetic Pierre Delecto, the Pestiferous Potentate of Enchanted Chones.)
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Never let a crisis go to waste...que up the new electric cars


15 posted on 04/12/2021 5:52:31 AM PDT by EBH (How they did it? Social Contagion and Social Media is the mechanism)
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The big question is, how can Hunter benefit from this.


16 posted on 04/12/2021 5:56:01 AM PDT by Old Yeller
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Thanks Palmer. I bet the auto unions are frying geriatric Joe’s ass on this issue.

Maybe TSMC has a subsidiary?


17 posted on 04/12/2021 5:56:54 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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According to some friends in the business, we also have an aluminum shortage.


18 posted on 04/12/2021 5:57:53 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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"Never let a crisis go to waste...que up the new electric cars"

Which take even more such chips, plus other not-so-readily available materials (lithium and rare earths).

19 posted on 04/12/2021 6:00:38 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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Had forgotten about the little vent window...I’d like one of those!


20 posted on 04/12/2021 6:02:58 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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