Comments on: News Roundup http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2009/06/news-roundup Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:39:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: scrotobaggins http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2009/06/news-roundup/comment-page-1#comment-52071 scrotobaggins Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:13:30 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=8643#comment-52071 Anyone here wanna comment on the European Elections? Anyone here wanna comment on the European Elections?

]]> By: scrotobaggins http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2009/06/news-roundup/comment-page-1#comment-52069 scrotobaggins Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:15:09 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=8643#comment-52069 GM's most profitable vehicles are the SUV's and Trucks you call gas guzzlers. Where's the evidence that people want small cars? Toyota does not make money on the Prius. Only when gas prices skyrocketed artificially last year were more people looking for fuel efficient cars. That's why Algore and Co. want a higher gas tax, it will force more people to buy smaller, more fuel efficient cars and offset the extra cost of a Hybrid. Not necessarily a bad thing, but again SUV's are not the reason for GM's failure. They invented the SUV, one could argue that the SUV kept GM in business longer ... GM suffers from the negative effects of Unions, high taxes and Unfair trade practices. South Korea slaps a tariff on US cars, high taxes and Union Labor costs drive GM to manufacture more overseas, for every GM worker there are 3 retirees receiving pensions, healthcare, or "unemployment", Michigan taxes the nutz off GM ... now for sure GM has made its share of crap cars over the years so they've lost brand loyalty. Some people refuse to even look at an American car. In my view they've made great products the past 10 years, but still more expensive than foreign competition due to (see above). I'm not against Unions, but when Unions become too powerful they hurt the Companies they feed of of. If gas prices rise again it will drive the economics towards smaller, more efficient cars. Hybrid technology is indeed excellent, other options like Vaporizer Technology and New Electric cars are in the pipeline ... made in America!! http://www.aptera.com/ http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2&p=fuel+vaporizer+gasoline&rs=1&fr2=rs-top GM’s most profitable vehicles are the SUV’s and Trucks you call gas guzzlers. Where’s the evidence that people want small cars? Toyota does not make money on the Prius. Only when gas prices skyrocketed artificially last year were more people looking for fuel efficient cars. That’s why Algore and Co. want a higher gas tax, it will force more people to buy smaller, more fuel efficient cars and offset the extra cost of a Hybrid. Not necessarily a bad thing, but again SUV’s are not the reason for GM’s failure. They invented the SUV, one could argue that the SUV kept GM in business longer …

GM suffers from the negative effects of Unions, high taxes and Unfair trade practices. South Korea slaps a tariff on US cars, high taxes and Union Labor costs drive GM to manufacture more overseas, for every GM worker there are 3 retirees receiving pensions, healthcare, or “unemployment”, Michigan taxes the nutz off GM … now for sure GM has made its share of crap cars over the years so they’ve lost brand loyalty. Some people refuse to even look at an American car. In my view they’ve made great products the past 10 years, but still more expensive than foreign competition due to (see above). I’m not against Unions, but when Unions become too powerful they hurt the Companies they feed of of.

If gas prices rise again it will drive the economics towards smaller, more efficient cars. Hybrid technology is indeed excellent, other options like Vaporizer Technology and New Electric cars are in the pipeline … made in America!!

http://www.aptera.com/
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2&p=fuel+vaporizer+gasoline&rs=1&fr2=rs-top

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