GM UAW workers on strike

If the market can bear it, then why not? If there's limited and/or falling demand, it'll shake out. That's why the Ford Excursion in all its environment-raping glory no longer exists, and how we got gas-sippers out of the post-OPEC era.

 

They'd be losing millions anyway. But they're not losing money because they're building a product nobody wants. They're not producing 300,000 F250s a year and selling 15,000.

 

Like it's the unions' fault that those who make the big decisions decided Americans must be converted into SUV addicts.

 

If the union were smart, it would've tried to buy Chrysler and use its genius minds to turn things around.

I know that didn't work with United, but lessons can be learned on how to make it work.

 

Trucks have one of the highest profit margins in the industry, plus they're perennial best-sellers.

 

How much does the son of a bitch that runs the company get paid? Or, his next 10 corporate stooges?

 

Why should you care? Free enterprise and all that.

Just ask T. Boone.

 

You mean Americans?

 

Trucks aren't subject to government mandated across-the-fleet mileage minimums the way cars are. The Market isn't pristine, nor is the much-discussed Hand invisible. Follow the arm up to the shoulder - past the lobbyists and the campaign contributions - and you'll find the Big Three and Big Oil. In short, there's been no incentive to build a more fuel-efficient pick-up. That most full-size pick-up lines, including Nissan and Toyota, no longer even offer a high-efficiency six-cylinder option, is ample evidence that The Market is subject to constant self-interest and manipulation.

 

Yup...listening to talk radio from that region right now. The effect of the strike will be immediate.

 

Trucks are subject to CAFE; trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating above 8,500 pounds are exempt. The vast majority of trucks are under that GVWR.

And there's no incentive to build a more fuel-efficient pickup because people are buying hundreds of thousands of the ones being made now, and the manufacturers are making tons of money selling them.