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China is making big moves into vehicle manufacturing. Probably doesn't hurt their feelings to watch competitors loose billions. The lefties think everyone other than themselves should ride a bike everywhere so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for government help. They keep this up it we'll need lessons from Cuba on how to keep old obsolete vehicles running.

Bb

Lol, dealers are doing just fine, selling everything they get in the day it hits the lot (or sooner) at 2, 3 , 4K over sticker. It’s not that they don’t sell cars, just a few less.

Same thing with manufacturers, who are making the high margin stuff first. Yeah, they are sending out stories about shutting down, but they often shut down plants this time of year for change overs and maintenance. Which they can now do in an orderly fashion, while blaming the chinks for no chips and talking the price up,

It’s not like “journalists” ever get out of their cubicle to check if all these press releases have any truth to them.

But, people seem to react to shortages by hoarding at high prices, like with the ammo shortage, and houses. I’ll just sit back and buy when the market drops. The old girl will go for another year.

I am hoping to pickup a 1st Gen 12 valve for $3k in the next week or so...

Don't need no stinking chips here...

Tech will be the workhorse of the enslavement of humanity. No exaggeration.


Start now trying to divorce yourself from as much tech as possible. I'm not saying all or all at once, but start getting the mind set. The future will see a resurgence of used mechanisms of all kinds. You watch.

That is the way to go.

There will be an increase in the need and demand for mechanical skills. We need a resurgence in the ingenuity that made western civilization great. World competition is what has given the advantage to the electronic invasion we see in our lives. Local need can reverse that advantage.

Do not dismiss the chokepoint of the main port of entry in LA and Long Beach...60 ships waiting for up to three weeks. News media blaming Longshore...welp, it aint that simple, all the pieces have to work together, like untangling a traffic pileup. California ports have decreed that truckers that do not meet the latest and greatest EPA and Calif Emissions Tier 4, cannot enter the Port property. So, the empty containers coming in must be offloaded outside the port, transferred to 'approved' Tier 4 trucks to be loaded onto outbound ships. Same thing coming in with loaded containers. Small or independent truckers with older engines, just can't compete, having to bear the transfer cost. But, what the hell, they are saving the planet, right? Anyway, until the trucking thing is solved, working the longshoremen 24-7's is not going to help. The Biden administration wants to intervene now...we can only guess at the snafu that will cause, "I'm from the govt, and I'm here to help ".

Leave it to Cali

I heard we're supposed to get a giant bonus. After 26 years of working in a depressing industry it's nice to finish on an upswing.

Do they have toilet paper?

Translation: There isn't enough money in it for us so your on your own.......