Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Sat Mar 08 2025 01:49:00

MP>One aggrevating thing about the retaliatory tarrifs is that they are
  >targeted at "red" states which are mostly always red.  They are not the
  >areas that decided the election.  States like North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
  >Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin... those are the states that were toss-ups that
  >all went red this time.

MP>I will believe that Canada really means business when they start tarriffing
  >automobiles, for example, and not just motorcycles.

I'm not up on the exact details regarding auto sales but a huge number
of cars were just shipped across the border to beat the tariffs that
Trump is putting on them, or will.. or might..
Estimates seem to be if the tariffs go through they will add between
$3000 and $12,000 to the cost of a new vehicle, average about $6000.

I suppose if we were smart we would just start buying just vehicles that
we make in Canada to avoid the tariffs altogether. I'd have to check
but obviously the variety of vehicles available that way would not be
very wide, which would obviously be a problem. More likely a lot of
people will put off buying new cars longer than usual in the hopes that
once Trump is gone this crap will come to an end.

It is opening up trade across Canada though. They are working at
getting rid of the trade barriers between provinces so we can
more easily buy Canadian made than American made. They figure
that will boost our sales in Canada by about $200 Billion.

Oh, and they are working on a pipeline, East to West here. We talked
about refineries the other day and apparently we do have refineries
here, but they are all to the East and the bulk of our oil to the
West and it was easier to pipe it to the USA than Truck it across
Canada, which now may change if this goes through.

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