Posted on 03/24/2022 10:47:47 AM PDT by poconopundit
Rivian has contacted me before.
Your “vanity” has better content than 99.9% of sourced material. Keep it up.
Rivian has only lost money for those in Normal, IL, one of its main manufacturing locations, if you can call making nearly none a manufacturer.
A few weeks ago, FReeper qaz123, another Georgia prisoner in exile, alerted me to this huge issue around the proposed Rivian plant. At the time, I had never heard of this scandal.
But after qaz and I compared notes, and I found the fabulous book I highlighted above, I had enough knowledge to put this story together.
FReepers in Georgia: We MUST defeat the corrupt and unKEMPt Dominator of our state before he does more damage. Please send this story far and wide. Steal the image too.
This attack on a $5B auto factory is the most retarded thing ever.
Communities/governments all over the world fight tooth and nail for this kind of investment.
Less than a 1k dumbasses in Georgia protesting this factory means nothing in the grand scheme of things.
IMHO Rivian’s purpose is not to make EV trucks and make a profit. Its purpose is to exist enough to scare the major auto manufacturers to make EV trucks and quit telling the gubment overlords that EV trucks are both impractical for truck owners (which they are for major truck chores) and unprofitable for the manufacturers (imagine the R&D that went into the F-150 Lightning and the Hummer EV and how many they have to sell to make profit). With Rivian the gubment can tell Ford and GM: “See. Rivian is doing it. Why can’t you. I’m about to regulate you to death.” Thus Ford and GM say, “way ahead of you, master”.
Another Nimby
Since when did it become American to demand control of your neighbor’s property through a central government committee Comrad?
If Kemp been a better governor, he would’ve never appointed Kelly Loeffler to a Senatorial vacancy. It’s like the story of the the loss of a nail that lost the shoe that lost the horse that lost the rider that lost the kingdom.
Because of terrible Republican leadership in Georgia,we lost two Senate seats at once, thus we lost the Senate, thus we lost the national government and now we are losing our country. Infuriating and sad.
Instead of running for reelection, Kemp should be throwing himself prostrate before the American people begging our forgiveness. ... as should every Republican who sat out the runoff election in Georgia. Even cheating can be overwhelmed by a massive voter turnout.
Thanks for the encouragement, Tijeras_Slim...
What did Rivian contact you about?
All the problems that Atlanta has with traffic is due to the failure of Georgia to build adequate roads. When compared with states like Texas, Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee, also experiencing high growth, Georgia has done little other than to widen existing freeways around Atlanta. That city has only one beltway, whereas Dallas, Nashville, Houston, and Jacksonville have built or are building outer beltways. Republicans have held the governorship since 2003 and the legislature since 2005.
Ford Motor Company put in $500M into Rivian.
do you have ADHD or something?
So, a new manufacturing facility would be GOOD/BAD for 10-11 million Georgians, or inconvenient and annoying for 20,000 Georgians? A governor has to consider the whole state as his constituency. Who does it benefit, and who does it harm? Which outweighs the other?
No matter what the outcome, somebody’s going to be pi$$ed.
My crystal ball has many EV jobs in China, quite a few in Mexico, and some in the USA.
And there will be enough UAW jobs to keep UAW bigwigs in comfortable style.
I’ve passed a Ford assembly plant near Atlanta airport in the past.
Its acreage was not huge.
Atlanta’s suburbs spread east to west across about half of Georgia following the path of I-85.
Hug trees much. How is bringing jobs to a poor county a scandal? Although I don’t live near there, I do live in rural Georgia.
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