Okayden

CO2 is only one aspect. i.e cherry-picking.

Yes. They can just say it came from the platinum mine in their backyard.

Do those office printers output 480 volts? Didn't think so.

The problem is that meth addicts cut off the cables to sell for scrap 

> “We’ll never go back to the inventory levels that we were in the past,” Barra said in a recent online chat.... << I read this to say “Why stay on top of demand when we make more if we do not?”

Not at all.  The auto industry has just figured out just-in-time inventory.  Which has been around for about fifty years.

“ as car prices will likely have come back to Earth by then.”

That’s a bad bet.

Huh. Silicon Valley - I got 3% this year.  Maybe time to reply to some of those head-hunters.

“ Someone here in NC making minimum wage ($7.25), working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, will make $15,080 before taxes.”

This person should not be buying a new car. Minimum wage is intended to provide food and shelter. Not new cars.

“Honda India has the Amaze sedan starting at ~$8500 USD equivalent.”

Which is two years’ salary for the average Indian ($377/month).  In the US, two years’ salary is $112k.

“Car sales are forecast to be down 17.3 percent”

This isn’t completely due to covid, and it’s not completely temporary. Cars simply last longer. There are plenty of people driving around in 2002 model vehicles that are just fine. Can you imagine someone in 1992 driving around a 1972 vehicle?  It wasn’t so long ago that…

“If you *need* a running car right now and don’t have one, you have never been more over a barrel.”

Meh. Plenty of 2008 Altimas and the like for a few thousand dollars.

Now - if you want a brand-spanking new Bronco Raptor, that’s a different story.

“They’re a shitty company”

In less than twenty years, they’ve become the most profitable US car company. That’s how shitty they are.

> Every vehicle pollutes & arguably causes harm to people.

Yep. Hate the man, love the car. No mystery.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/02af814d-b5a1-47bf-adc6-3aa1009c1b2b

Tesla is also the most profitable American auto manufacturer.

Rather not get into facts and logic?

I think it works best for people living in the US holding a Canadian passport. There's about a million of them.

Since the border is essentially closed to non-essential travel