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China’s electric car boom: should Tesla Motors worry?
fortune ^ | February 19, 2015, 7:00 AM EST | Levi Tillemann

Posted on 02/20/2015 6:25:55 AM PST by ckilmer

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That headline is incorrect. I checked the referenced site and what it actually said was "China's Electric Car GOES Boom!" But that sort of thing has been going on for some time.

(And before someone asks, I will post this until the idiots in government alter this insane and now dangerous UNILATERAL FREE – NOT FAIR -- trade policy with China and the fools in the multinationals STOP exporting the production of EVERYTHING to China and bring those jobs home.

As you think about that, recall that in ancient times, the Romans and others would catapult disease-riddled corpses over the walls of cities they besieged to sicken and kill the enemy. The Chinese know that history even if we obviously have forgotten it. Get my drift there?

On a recent visit to China, a friend spotted this ad in a Beijing newspaper. He sent me the photo with a translation of the ad copy.

BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR AND JOIN CHINA’S NEW MONIED ELITE!

Yes, you can now join the millions of happy and prosperous Chinese citizens taking advantage of the growing numbers of American and Western multinational corporations “outsourcing” their production to the hard-working and industrious people of China. This outsourcing has now spread to their food supplies and ingestible items. Since these firms pay us for gross weight – and this new weight will be pretty gross – and the stupid American government only spot-checks imported items in these categories (they just got lucky on the anti-freeze thing), it has opened an entirely new opportunity which our beloved Chairman is offering to any Chinese citizen willing to do a little of what the foolish Americans call “grunt work.”

Installing one of these state-of-the-art food additive production facilities behind YOUR hovel is as simple as clipping the coupon below and sending it to the address shown. Your production plant will be shipped to you in 4 to 6 weeks. Supplies are limited so don’t fart around. ACT NOW!!

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These silly Americans have an expression we have “borrowed” and modified to describe this new and exciting venture: “Don’t give me any s**t.”

Our motto will be “We won’t GIVE you any s**t. But we’ll SELL it to you fools at a really great price.”

Better yet, we convince them to COME HERE to pick it up and save us the shipping costs.

AND LOOK FOR A NEW DROP-DEAD MONEY-MAKER COMING SOON. SOYLENT YELLOW PROMISES TO BE BIG!!

AND YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED TO KNOW THAT THE “CHERY” PERSONAL VEHICLE TO BE IMPORTED BY CHRYSLER IS SIMPLY A HORIZONTALLY MODIFIED VARIATION OF THE VERTICAL UNIT SHOWN ABOVE. WE SIMPLY SLAP AN ENGINE AND SOME WHEELS ON THAT PUPPY AND OFF SHE GOES! AMERICA’S VAST ILLEGAL POPULATION OUGHT TO SNAP THEM UP LIKE TACOS.

21 posted on 02/20/2015 8:12:43 AM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

And assuming that’s true one must consider *where* they’re getting the electricity.Anyone who’s visited China recently (as I have) knows that the air quality there is absolutely disgusting.The clearest day *I’ve* ever seen there is *far* worse than the worst day I’ve ever seen in LA,NYC,The Ruhr Valley or London.

And while much of that pollution is surely coming from factories a good percentage of it is coming for the antiquated coal fired power plants that they bring online daily. ...............

All true. However, most of the world’s top photovoltaic companies are Chinese so the Chinese are also the laying in a lot of Photovoltaic power. I think the trend will be toward less pollution in the next 10 years or so.


22 posted on 02/20/2015 8:36:42 AM PST by ckilmer (q)
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To: Dick Bachert

Funny story. I trust you understand that if the flyers were actually posted, then the people who bought the port a pots were getting stung.


23 posted on 02/20/2015 8:40:51 AM PST by ckilmer (q)
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To: mrsmith

That’s the ‘sweet spot’ economically for ecars. Big ecars are just toys.

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The Tesla is in the upscale market. The range of their batteries is over 250 miles.


24 posted on 02/20/2015 9:11:28 AM PST by ckilmer (q)
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