Yeah, bad writing during a rant. I was not clear.

Neutral: Do You Trust Automakers On Coronavirus?

Well, the Brits and the French, really. French automakers helped keep the French market all but closed to anyone not from France, and they really only took off in France or colonial holdings, like in the Caribbean, Africa, and Viet Nam, where French was the official language of the government. Their heyday was…

The price of gas is a function of a few oil companies and the federal and state taxing bodies.I know, this is a car site, and we tend to look at the world via that view, but petroleum is the base for a lot of shit other than gas.  

I agree with most of your points, but I disagree on the level playing field analogy. The field is tilted, and in favor of just a few companies, especially VW. VW is not really cash poor, and the German government is willing to prop it up to keep automobile production in Germany. Toyota seems to be very solvent, and…

All correct points, but missing a bit of important data for interpretation. The current new world order will be a lot different than the new world order that occurred in the post-WWII era. After WWII, the entire world was rebuilding their factories (all but the USA, as we didn’t get bombed) and those plants outside…

I am happy to hear that the cruise lines got nothing out of the stimulus deal. They really did not deserve anything, based on their tax avoidance and labor law avoidance (if the ship is US flagged, the crew must be US based, and guess who costs a lot more than someone from a developing nation?).

the only way for a manufacturer to “amortize” that cost is to build more vehicles and models

Absolutely!

Neutral: Who Makes It Out?

That only works for churches with members who are financially solvent and have internet. A lot of the open for services churches tend to cater to a lower socioeconomic demographic, and certainly those preaching the prosperity gospel fit that bill as well.

One has to enjoy Ina and her effortless creation of a Cosmo that can leave you unconscious after drinking.

If the only good thing to come out of this COVID-19 pandemic is the immediate and total banning of any and all HOA powers, it would be worth it.

If it helps send God-fearing idiots to meet him (or her) in person faster, I am all for it.

All true. So why does the bailout give money to the wealthy and formerly profitable large companies who could have, and SHOULD have, put money aside for unplanned catastrophies? The money spent in stock buybacks could have been put to better uses than inflating stock price, yet now we are supposed to help the big…

Neutral: If All The World’s Major Automakers Were Gone, How Would You Rebuild?

Snark away, Sparky, but the folks at the Senior Center have been on lockdown since, well, since they checked in. They don’t go anywhere, they live there, eat there, sleep there, have their hair done there, all without leaving, save for going to the doctor’s office or hospital in an emergency.

To be fair, the corporation includes those hourly workers as a part of the whole, and it only seems fair that if the management and shareholders profit, so should the laborers that produced what was sold. Our current system only seems to think management and shareholders deserve to be rewarded for success.

The UAW Is Trying To Clean Up Its Act

Bingo. Just like we gloss over the numerous flaws of moral conscience of Henry Ford, the industrialist, bigot, and far right darling. Musk is dangerous due to his tweets. I posit Bezos is even more dangerous, as Amazon is sending packages throughout the country and apparently has infected workers in their warehouses,…