Foreign cars
I own a 98 Durango 360 engine. It needs a transmission- built in NJ or Deleware- cant remember which, but over there on the other side of the tracks lol somewhere. I also own a 74 Duster-USA, I also own a 1984 Porsche 944- still get 27 mpg highway at 80mph. My toy is a 2001 Honda 400ex. So I am 50/50. Here is the thing- here where I live- we make alot of car parts. Pistons, rods, gears, axles, etc etc for everything from GM, Ford, John Deere, Harley, Honda, Porsche, Audi, etc etc. 2/3rds of new cars are made from powdered metal- believe it or not! Yes- your crank rods, axle joints, trans gears, timing gears, etc are powdered metal, and probably made here in St. Marys, PA. Ive worked at places that made the blends for the powdered metal factories that pressed out the parts. I also worked in the secondary machine shops for a whopping $9/ hr to machine 100's of parts on cnc lathes and mills to make these parts into spec.
Yes- the majority of the money may go back to overseas companies, but they also give us jobs. It is the nafta?? trade agreement that is screwing us. We send over 20% to bringing in %80 of other countries goods. You cant blame just the chinese or whoever because we also want our coffee in the morning, bananas to munch on, vodka to drink, and our freedom to buy and do what the hell we want. We are suck in a money situation- we cant afford the good stuff so we are stuck buying the crap from China. Which in turn is keeping us from buying better stuff because we cant afford the good stuff because our jobs are in other countries. If we raise our tarriffs on imported goods, other countries stop buying as much from us- see the circle here?? Then our country helps every other country in the world in hopes of a good back pay and we make other countries mad at us for helping, so now we have to help them to keep from going to war with everyone- yet this country makes money when we go to war.
Theres diplomacy for ya lol.