Comments on: The American People Want Sex, Not Hummers

By: Real Men Drive Minivans » Midnight Feedings #7

Real Men Drive Minivans » Midnight Feedings #7 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:56:45 +0000

[...] dividend in the form of a Corvette (tax free, of course), but I’d MUCH rather have a Telsa: The American People Want Sex, Not Hummers @ Matthew Ebel [...]

By: Matthew Ebel

Matthew Ebel — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:59:47 +0000

I don't see why the UAW would care, given that under my (lame reductionist) proposal the unionized workers would still be making cars. They'd just have a different logo.

In all seriousness, I think we (the taxpayers) should have just told Tesla that they now employ a LOT more people and a bunch of manufacturing plants, and they also have 30 billion dollars to spend. If Tesla doesn't know how to manage that many people, I could point them to several hundred unemployed auto executives that would now be happy to apply for a job.

By: Fellow GM "owner"

Fellow GM "owner" — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:51:31 +0000

This is all about preserving the UAW's high wages and crazy work rules for a few more years until the whole mess sinks into oblivion, along with our tax dollars.

To answer the GM vs. Tesla question, it's because Obama owes the unions a lot more than he owes Tesla.

HUMMER might well outlive the other GM brands.

By: Matthew Ebel

Matthew Ebel — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:59:00 +0000

I don’t see why the UAW would care, given that under my (lame reductionist) proposal the unionized workers would still be making cars. They’d just have a different logo.

In all seriousness, I think we (the taxpayers) should have just told Tesla that they now employ a LOT more people and a bunch of manufacturing plants, and they also have 30 billion dollars to spend. If Tesla doesn’t know how to manage that many people, I could point them to several hundred unemployed auto executives that would now be happy to apply for a job.

By: Fellow GM "owner"

Fellow GM "owner" — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:51:00 +0000

This is all about preserving the UAW’s high wages and crazy work rules for a few more years until the whole mess sinks into oblivion, along with our tax dollars.

To answer the GM vs. Tesla question, it’s because Obama owes the unions a lot more than he owes Tesla.

HUMMER might well outlive the other GM brands.

By: Matthew Ebel

Matthew Ebel — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:59:47 +0000

I don't see why the UAW would care, given that under my (lame reductionist) proposal the unionized workers would still be making cars. They'd just have a different logo.

By: Fellow GM "owner"

Fellow GM "owner" — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:51:31 +0000

By: Khyber Kitsune

Khyber Kitsune — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:00:00 +0000

Didn’t GM just sell out to China?

By: Khyber Kitsune

Khyber Kitsune — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:16 +0000

Didn't GM just sell out to China?

By: Tora Kiyoshi

Tora Kiyoshi — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:14:00 +0000

The reason we’ve always had a love affair with big, strong, powerful cars is simple: They represent a fantasy, a virility, that mortal men simply do not possess. It’s the same reason idiots buy tigers as pets.

Yes, well… we don’t like being pets. At least, I don’t. I ate the last guy who asked me.

-=Tora Kiyoshi (trans: purity of the tiger)