Posted on 08/14/2022 5:31:33 AM PDT by devane617
Jack Weaver can point to a cannon on a Civil War battlefield from the comfort of a shaded bench in his backyard — a visible marker of his land’s rich past. As he speaks about his small town, it’s over the loud rumble of cars and trucks at the intersection in front of his farmhouse red home.
The 82-year-old retired dairy farmer has lived in Spring Hill nearly his entire life. He’s watched the once-quiet town in middle Tennessee grow into a burgeoning Nashville suburb. The evolution of Spring Hill has come in conjunction with a population boom in the state as well as the introduction of new industries — in particular, auto companies — that have poured billions of dollars in new investments into the state.
“It’s good and it’s bad,” says Weaver, who complains about cars hitting his fence and the traffic General Motors’ Spring Hill plant has brought since it opened in 1990. “I’m not against development at all. I’m not. I think a man outta do what he wants with his own land.”
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Cancel the blue states!!!
If EVs are here to stay and in large capacity, I wish they’d put a sound to the motor while its being driven.
Blind or partially blind folks need to be alerted of an approaching car as they walk across a street. Average people do too, because some may be staring at their cell phones instead of watching traffic.
I am also quite concerned with the unique kind of fires that occur when one of those batteries gets overheated. That may be classified as a “Charlie” or electrical fire. But they cannot be extinguished by regular means. One simply has to wait the fire our.
Buahahahahaah.
Electric vehicles?
Everyone with an ounce of sense knows they are just toys for the wealthy. When it comes to real travel, electric cars are shit. And everyone knows it.the autos are marketed here to mollify the feds on things like gasoline powered and deisel powered vehicle emission standards.
If it can compete with a Detroit V8, then the People of America have NO USE for it.
Except the materials to make them aren’t abundant enough, we don’t have the power to power them, and few want them. But leftists get to play make believe and that’s all that matters to many. They’re “saving the planet” after all.
Ping for your commentary.
The Automotive Industry was first in the Northeast. Connecticut had a bunch of automobile Companies - Corbin, Pope-Hartford, Locomobile, American Rolls-Royce and Springfield, Massachusetts had Duryea. It will always move to where it is cheaper to build.
EVs suck. It is why 100 years ago the ICE became dominate.
The ICE is a miracle invention.
EV = ornate golf cart.
The small V6 and 4 bangers with turbo boost have replaced reliable V8 power. The small displacement engines are pushed harder and just don’t hold up as well.
Anyone have a list of EV’s that qualify for the $7500 credit?....wait, what there aren’t any?
The Auto industry moved South years ago.
Deeetroit and the UAW are doomed as all the big three are struggling to combat constantly decreasing market share.
GM has a CEO who constantly announces vehicles that simply do not exist and promotes vehicles that fail to attract customers. GM is presently a de facto Chinese company having minority ownership in three different joint ventures from which all the companies are derived.
Ford can’t make up its mind how to proceed knowing that the pickups are the sole product contributing to survival. Ford is at odds with dealers who mark up trucks by $25,000 or more in order to make ends meet. At present, the Ford business model isn’t working any more.
Chrysler-Fiat is managed by a joint operation in Deeetroit and Turin. The company is a conglomeration of failed or nearly failed automotive brands . Keeping them all alive is like cancer of the thyroid, lungs bones and stomach. Jeep and Ram can’t overcome the cancerous rot
A wild card called Tesla has been played down south in Texas. That card may very well spell doom for GM and Ford and the hapless UAW.
When LG batteries are eliminated, the incidence of fire approaches 0
——wait, what there aren’t-—
Au Contraire mi amigo (texmex frog language)
Tesla Model 3 Standard Range and Both Model Ys
The Texas Giga factory will be producing Model Y’s at the rate of 200,000 annually by years end
“House trailer” or a manufactured home???
There were some good smaller engines that were completely satisfactory, gov’t emission standards, etc. have made them impossible to build anymore. No need for this really. California may have a unique problem, but why should the rest of the country suffer for them? Let’s get back to some of the earlier design engines , improve on them a little, & make them available once again.
A Tesla has a 400-mile range. Las Vegas, Nev. is 250 miles from here. To complete a round trip to Las Vegas, I would have to spend 90 minutes recharging my battery if I had a Tesla as opposed to about five minutes to refuel my conventional car.
The UAW is a cancer that in the long run will kill any company that it organizes.
Fortunately, most of the big foreign brands build cars in the U.S. They don’t build them in Detroit. They are mostly (entirely?) non-union.
I was raised in a GM town. Several of my high school friends who didn’t go to college worked at the GM plant. I always drove GM products. I was a shareholder for years. (I got out in time — my one triumph of market timing.) Even at the end, I loved my Saturn and was peeved when the company killed Saturn in preference to keeping Buick. I would have stayed with GM through a legitimate bankruptcy and reorganization.
But the parasite killed the host, and Obama made whole the parasite. The press talks about the “GM bailout.” GM wasn’t bailed out. GM went bankrupt. The shareholders lost everything. The secured bondholders were defrauded through a TARP-driven government extortion of the big investment banks. The GM suppliers were savaged. Management was replaced. The UAW was made whole. Obama killed the host and saved the cancer.
I will never buy another car made by the UAW. I prefer not to do business with thieves. I’ve been buying Toyotas since the bankruptcy. I’m not wedded to Toyota in the same way I was committed to GM — though the local Toyota dealer is in a most excellent location for my purposes — but if I switch, it won’t be to a UAW company.
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