re: Elon Musk: Without U.S. Tariffs, China Will ‘Demolish’ American Auto Industry

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BYD is the company that is up ending Tesla. Never mind that they stole the tech etc..

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Thanks for posting this. Looks impressive. Especially the blade battery that you can drill through. That’s seems like a step forward in safety.

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So do Dodge products.....when they're new. You can't really judge a vehicle until it has 200K on the clock.

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Just a hunch, but we will all lease vehicles for two years before long instead of owning, to keep the auto markets booming and people consuming.

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Just a hunch, but we will all lease vehicles for two years before long instead of owning, to keep the auto markets booming and people consuming.

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Not me. I like my old truck and intend to keep it.

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Future factories will be primarily automation with little human labor input.

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It's so unfortunate that we don't live in the future.

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Maybe US car makers will make cars for less than 40k again.

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Won't happen. The unions have too much control. Gotta make sure the janitor is paid $100 an hour.

But this is what unions always do and why they suck. All they do is price themselves out of the market and cause the company to go belly up.

So I say bring on the Chinese cars, baws.

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It's so unfortunate that we don't live in the future.

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Most unskilled mfg jobs (including automakers) can easily be done without human input now.

The new UAW contract ensures fewer Autoworkers. Not Chinese cars.

American companies cant compete due to uber high wages for unskilled/uneducated workers, and regulation. Companies will figure out a way around the labor issue pretty quickly.

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Owner of car company wants tariffs on imports.

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Yep, good old protectionism.

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Check out how they use the Uyghurs they have them literally in camps and utilize forced labor. There is plenty of evidence.

The last report I saw from the Global Slave index put it at 5.8 million people living in slave labor.

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The only people there is “very little evidence of this” for are those whose heads are firmly planted in the sand or their assed.

Even our own DOL admit there is slavery in China LINK

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I know what's going on with the Uyghurs. The chicomms are despicable.

All I'm saying is there's no evidence that is more than a rounding error on "demolishing" any American industry.

I mean, part of the reason for recent inflation is that the Chinese worker no longer agrees to work for essentially free. A lot of the disinflation of the past 20 years was because we offshored so much labor to China. As the middle class has burgeoned there, they now command a much higher rate - often, no longer as obviously competitive with American manufacturing rates.

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That wasn’t my experience.

To be fair, it was only a rental, but is was quite nice, and ran like a top.

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Like the Japanese, China can build as plush and solid a vehicle as ANY manufacturer in the world, if they want to. Don't be fooled!

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Musk speaks the absolute truth! I was in the automobile business (GM dealer) for 25 years, and watched (firsthand) the Japanese take their product from the outhouse to the penthouse in less than a decade. China can do the same, even at a faster clip.
Our only hope to offset this, to my knowledge, involve tariffs and/or quota limits.

So we should all pay more for cars so a few people can have jobs? We're paying 70k to 90k for 50k trucks. End the tariffs, this is simple Austrian economics