It's not just FCA
Well it looks like Ford may be jumping onto the no more small cars band wagon like FCA. Also if they do stay they will not be built in the USA! The future of smaller cars in the U.S. may depend on ...
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My apologies...read up on it and they no longer reference 'known reserves' anymore
The new verbiage is: "proven oil reserves' or 'proved oil reserves'...that may or
may not include oil shale, etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2244rank.html
and agree, OPEC is no longer the main control org of crude pricing...
Outsourcing was much simpler when those countries were way down on
the peer scale...but, after paying them to build up their infrastructure...that
whole thing has changed...except for bean counter exec's continue
to out source to reduce their costs & build their bonuses based on
quarterly profit numbers
Other metrics that are also going to drive this, other than the old
vision of westward movement for the next manufacturing region/country/etc
has already started...and that is build to order.
Not for very complex and large products like a vehicle, but small things
like cell phones, etc. So manufacturing will no longer adhere to either
the westward movement or cheap costs and much more
The new verbiage is: "proven oil reserves' or 'proved oil reserves'...that may or
may not include oil shale, etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2244rank.html
and agree, OPEC is no longer the main control org of crude pricing...
Outsourcing was much simpler when those countries were way down on
the peer scale...but, after paying them to build up their infrastructure...that
whole thing has changed...except for bean counter exec's continue
to out source to reduce their costs & build their bonuses based on
quarterly profit numbers
Other metrics that are also going to drive this, other than the old
vision of westward movement for the next manufacturing region/country/etc
has already started...and that is build to order.
Not for very complex and large products like a vehicle, but small things
like cell phones, etc. So manufacturing will no longer adhere to either
the westward movement or cheap costs and much more
