Domestic automakers' survival is vital to our national interest

Had they long ago embraced rather than fought higher fuel-economy standards, they might now have a larger and better-established base for manufacturing and marketing the small cars that are selling like hot ...

[Bobc]

Save the auto industry, so they can build new energy
vehicles, which usually are smaller veicles....then we can watch the RV industry die out!

Already many RV factories are laying off, and many stopped making their motor home, but most travel trailers would never be pulled by these new vehicles!

RV's are made in the US and we should also strive to keep them alive!

[Islander native]

Bobc wrote:

Save the auto industry, so they can build new energy
vehicles, which usually are smaller veicles....then we can watch the RV industry die out!
Already many RV factories are laying off, and many stopped making their motor home, but most travel trailers would never be pulled by these new vehicles!
RV's are made in the US and we should also strive to keep them alive!

I won't support the automakers until they kick out the unions who have a stranglehold on too much industry.

[uh-yeah]

Domestic automakers make plenty of small fuel efficient cars. They just sell them outside the US. How crazy is that? They already have everything they need to succeed, they just need to BRING IT HERE!

[Surry Resident]

Look at the command structure of the Japenese manufacturers versus the big three which have many many layers of middlement to insulate the top command from the problems to their own demise. They move so slowly that you would think that everything is done by committee. Don't discount government interference and the big labour union policies of paying people to set at home instead of furloughing them. Government and the big labour unions are as much to blame as anyone. Tell them to go watch the Toyota plants in America and learn what the expression Kaizan means.

[BuBBa]

Oh yes, I guess the American auto makers forced customers to buy the big SUV's and Pickup trucks? Instead now they are taking the blame for consumer free market choices. Get real use your head for somehting more tha plopping a baseball cap on sideways.

It's not only the domestic companies. Look at Toyta with their mega gas guzzling Tundra. People expressed their desire for a "BIGGGG"
Toyota pickup so they made one now They can't give them away. The fault is with the consumer not the companies.

[Islander native]

ABC wrote:

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Unions aren't the powerful they used to be since Reagan fired the Air Traffic Controllers.

True but they still carry too much weight. We need another Reagan!!!