Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Wed Mar 12 2025 01:02:00

RM>> I think they are targeting specific things from 'Red' States that will
  >> cause the most annoyance/pain. Like Booze from Kentucky has pretty much
  >> been removed from our shelves here.

MP>Which means they are missing the "Red States" that actually decided the
  >election... PA, NC, OH, MI, WI.  KY has very few electoral votes in
  >comparison to most of those.  We could go red, blue, or some other wild
  >color and we make no difference.

You'd know this stuff better than I do. It seemed to me they were targeting
products from specific states that are the main or only supplier of that
product so they will be upset enough about it to complain bloody murder
to Trump..

RM>> Yes, as suggested above, we have been more partners than rivals so
  >> there may be some truth to that but I seriously doubt that building
  >> some of your cars in plants in Canada was simple charity to us..

MP>I don't see it as a charity.  Maybe Trump does.  I suspect it more likely
  >made some sort of business sense, as you also do.  Businesses are generally
  >going to do what makes them money and less of what fits their political
  >ideology... that is, if they want to stay in business!  ;)

Trump sees thousands of jobs building cars in Canada that he can bring
back to the USA to give you those jobs, but anylists were talking
about that tonight on the news and said that what that would do is
cripple American car makers because you can't suddenly throw together
a car building plant. They said it would cost many $Billions and take
years for that to be completed, and then you could pretty much bet
that almost all Canadians would never buy an American car again,
and we would very quickly be able to retool existing plants here to
start making more Asian cars here which would also compete with
your car makers at some level unless tariffs were left on forever.

MP>> The USA had also started building some car models in Mexico to save
  >> money but you ended up limiting that due to quality issues which,
  >> as mentioned earlier, is much less of a problem when they're built
  >> in Canada and the USA..

MP>I would not have any qualms about buying an "American" car built in Canada.
  > For that matter, I'd not have any qualms about buying a Canadian one but,
  >to my knowledge, there have been no Canadian specific makes/models since
  >the last years of Studebaker production.  ;)

No, it doesn't look like there are any truly Canadian car companies.
I think one or two were trying to start up over the years but never
went anywhere.

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