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Anachronism I know, but I like 'everybody does their part'.
On another subject, I saw Gulf gas for $1.29 here yesterday. Wow.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Remember "Good Gulf" and "No Nox"? LOL
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I do think that once the crisis is past, and they do a lessons learned, there is a real focus on rethinking medical equipment and PPEs. More reusable and less one time and toss it away PPE. And ventilators, seems inefficient to have them all be bulky individual units. Seems like there should be a central air supply and just a hose that connects to an outlet at every bed with some controls on the wall (isn't that how oxygen is delivered now?). Kinda like a central vacuum in a house! can still have some portable units for back up duty and using at odd locations.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Defined by Webster as "unfavorable." That's not going to cut it.
Lets go with these two words to more accurately describe that Neon:
Definition of Horrible:
2: extremely bad or unpleasant
a horrible mistake
horrible food
Definition of terrible:
1: extremely bad: such as
a: notably unattractive or objectionable
terrible behavior
b: of very poor quality
a terrible movie
On the respirator talk, I don't know about MB using its US facilities for anything yet, But the F1 group isn't just building ventilators, but helping to design alternatives
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companies that make and sell cars here doing something that contributes to supplying
necessary equipment, that some areas need in the way of medical support.
I was adding to the thread that was saying where are the foreign manufacturers helping.
I should have been clear on GM, Ford.
Fiat/Chrysler??? Where are they fitting?
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Maybe we can wait for their reasoning, or for a certain mouth to chirp at them (a shame Barra didn't clap back).
I liked seeing a few reports that companies like GE/Ford and Dyson were not just making the same old style, but coming out with more modern/efficient/better designs.
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At some point, when this is over, there is going to be one heck of a glut of those things. I hope at least this crisis leads to some breakthroughs on the technology.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/mercedes-amg-f1-ventilator-cpap-covid-19/
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https://www.heraldnet.com/business/the-incredibly-challenging-ventilator-effort-by-ventec-gm/
And, yes, they were doing all of this, before the BS about them dragging their feet.
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Go back three weeks, even before GM was actually planning on doing the manufacturing themselves, they leveraged their supplier network to get Ventec more raw parts, so that Ventec could make more units. (Hi, this is GM. Can you make these parts for Ventec, so that you can keep making parts for GM, once this is over? Great, thought you'd see it that way).
From the reporting I've seen, GM and their suppliers have been treating this like the life or death crisis that it is.
Google: gm ventec suppliers
There are some truly inspiring accounts, that will make you proud to be an American.
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https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/entities/233-general-motors
That's what they stiffed us during the bailouts, in pure accounting terms.
Full Disclosure: I'm not pro-GM.
If you add GMAC, it looks like we were stiffed another 600 Million Dollars!
If you add GMAC Mortgage, LLC then add anotehr 310 million unpaid back dollars!
How many companies is GM responsible for? Does anyone have a list? By the way, they changed the name of GMAC to Ally Financial so that newborns wouldn't make the connection to being stiffed.
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I did hear a rumor somewhere that someone is thinking of a new C4C.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2020/05/13/dont-bring-back-cash-for-clunkers-because-of-covid-19/
In addition to requesting a huge economic relief package for themselves, automakers are pushing Congress to consider reprising the “Cash for Clunkers” program from 2009 to get their customers back into dealerships. The controversial initiative, also known as the Car Allowance Rebate System or simply CARS, offered between $3,500 and $4,500 to people who traded in a sufficiently polluting old car for a sufficiently green new one. The more the customer cleaned up her carbon footprint during her trade-in, the bigger the check she’d get — and the more people took advantage of the program, the authors of the bill argued, the quicker the U.S. economy would recover from the 2009 financial crash.
But countless studies have shown that the Cash for Clunkers program accomplished neither its environmental nor economic goals — and it helped feed a new economic crisis as poor Americans were incentivized to take on more debt.
An economic “stimulus” that requires poor Americans to carry devastating long-term loan obligations on cars with little resale value in exchange for an initial discount is an unconscionable use of government funds — especially in the midst of a pandemic that experts predict will put tens of millions of more Americans into poverty. And if our goal is stimulate the economy, help the environment, and also improve social and literal mobility of vulnerable people, there are far better ways, i.e. making sustainable transportation safer, cheaper and more convenient.
But first, let’s quash the idea that Cash for Clunkers was ever a good idea for America — or that it would be a good idea now. Here are three reasons this program should never be repeated.