Hey guys, have you seen this?
http://www.mysanantonio.com/business....1b9ecad7.html
Toyota is going to start pimping their new San Antonio TX plant to sell their crappy little Tundra pickup trucks to general construction contractors and businesses (and probably, in the process, touting that it's a "Made in the USA" product as they have before). So basically, in other words Toyota thinks that making white stripped down Tundras with 8 foot beds to sell to contractors is a NOVEL concept that supposedly businesses have never before considered. I know why people haven't considered it yet - it's because (HOPEFULLY) they're PROUD to be an AMERICAN - so they're PROUD to drive an AMERICAN vehicle on the job site. When is everyone here in the US going to realize that Toyota, Honda, and Nissan are partly to blame for high gas prices by shipping their biggest vehicles to China, increasing fuel demand in those areas?
Sooner or later, Nissan will probably build a Titan assembly plant somewhere in Iowa and claim that it's an "American" vehicle too just like what Toyota and Hyundai are doing. Meanwhile the money goes back overseas, and American automobile manufacturers start to lose a little more ground with each passing day. This is getting RIDICULOUS.
OK, sure Toyota is hiring people in the USA (San Antonio in this case) to build their trucks, and I'm happy if you were unemployed in San Antonio and now have found a job with Toyota. I'm glad that you have a job now. But, until we boycott companies like this that try to give a "Made in the USA" image while most of their dollar goes overseas to fund sending the Tundra, Highlander, 4Runner, Ridgeline, Pilot, Titan, Xterra, Murano, Pathfinder, and the Armada to Beijing, we're likely never to accomplish an oil balance. The only thing we in America can do is boycott.
Bottom line: with each imported vehicle bought in the USA, that's one more vote for the demise of American automobile manufacturers.
This, of course, is my humble opinion. Opinions anyone?