Honda vs Hummer
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July 8th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Yeah, it’s pretty simple. U.S. car makers took the easy route and produced behemoth gas guzzling vehicles for the past 5 decades. Japan and the other Asian car manufacturers produced rugged but fuel efficient vehicles. I’m glad the U.S. car makers are tanking. This what you get when you underestimate your competition. This what you get when you put all your cookies into one basket. Pumping out SUVs and heavyduty trucks when oil is expected to become one of the most costly of commodities is retarded.
Hmmmm, maybe they have a Hummer Hybrid on the drawing boards? [smirk], I wouldn’t f’ing doubt these idiots! do.
July 8th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
The most interesting thing is about the cartoon is the McCain ad underneath it, which is designed to subliminally label Barack Obama as an “Anti-American Foreign Leader”. So much for McCain’s so-called honor. He may not explicitly smear Obama, but he’ll sure hint real hard! But then, that meshes pretty well with his claims on the Iraq issue. McCain claims (he repeated it in a speech today) that he’ll bring American troops home from Iraq “with honor and victory.” How can there be any honor in a war of aggression that was started for no real reason other than Bush’s personal hatred of Saddam Hussein? As for victory? Well, I guess I can’t fault McCain for not learning much from the Vietnam War–he was incarcerated at the time–but there is no way we can win what has transformed from U.S. aggression to an Iraqi civil war fueled by intractable religious fanaticism on both sides..
July 9th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Boy, an honest-to-goodness idiotarian drive-by. No wait, two!
Let’s start with #2, One question, de we have any evidence that such placement was intentional, as opposed to purely coincidental, or does one simply posit malice on the part of all those whose views we disagree with? I think I know the answer to that one.
#1? I love it when people with no grasp of economics say “yeah, it’s pretty simple.” Domestic automakers did what they needed to do to be competitive in the market that they faced at the time. Then as now, they faced extremely high labor costs, much higher than those of foreign competitors. And they responded by giving people what they wanted under circumstances of comparatively inexpensive fuel: spacious, powerful, flashy cars that overcame their main flaw…inferior quality.
Will that change now? It already is changing. We’ll be up to our armpits in tiny electic cars quicker than you can say “conspiracy of big oil and other evil corporate interests.”
And sure, maybe it’s worth being happy that the nation’s roads will carry far more smaller and more-fuel efficient cars. These vehicles though, will carry more unemployed American workers and more employed American workers whose salary is smaller than it was a few years ago and whose standard of living is substantially lower. So you’ll forgive me is I don’t join in on the gloating and rejoicing over the side affects of $4/gallon gasoline.
July 9th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
“Domestic automakers did what they needed to do to be competitive in the market that they faced at the time. Then as now, they faced extremely high labor costs, much higher than those of foreign competitors. And they responded by giving people what they wanted under circumstances of comparatively inexpensive fuel: spacious, powerful, flashy cars that overcame their main flaw…inferior quality.” – kranky kritter
No, consumers didn’t ask for these things. They were convinced to believe they absolutely needed these things. Much like the rest of our gluttonous lifestyle, we aren’t for want of anything. We are ever unsatisfied with enough when enough is plenty and by any universal standard is excess.