A congressional hearing on domestic energy Tuesday devolved into a series of attacks against Ford Motor Co., with a subcommittee chairman claiming the American automaker would be "subservient" to a Chinese battery company under its agreement to open a new battery plant in Michigan.
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@1les+1mLU2I0m the committee members were wise to Ford having bought Jenny and Petey. They kept mentioning how the oversight committee questions caused a reversal in one China deal. There are more powerful lobbyist than Ford and it is election season,, so Jenny and Petey don’t have unlimited power.
It was hilarious how Dingell went on and on about Ford battery plant bringing good jobs to michigan, never once mentioning all the jobs going to Mexico and India.
It seems far more practical to locate a battery plant close to the source of the raw materials. The gentleman from California mentioned that the Salton Sea mining is projected to produce 75% of the needed Lithium. So that would be a good plant location, and it is a hop and a skip from Mexico, Ford’s manufacturing hub.
Too bad it is all just for show! Don't get too excited about the hearing!
All it takes is just one phone call from a current Michigan gov to an ex-Michigan gov (now running the DOE-and doing a fine job in the US govt like she did running the state of Michigan - wink-wink) and a few other high powered people in congress and the subject will go away. And in a few years (after the plant is operating), the same people in state and federal govt will then tell us how the opposite political party allowed "billionaires" and huge corporations (Ford and the China companies) to profit, gain competitive manufacturing advantage, and set up businesses on US soil.
It is the same song and dance from the people in power on nearly every topic (debt ceilings, vax mandates, pharmaceuticals, govt lockdowns, etc.).
Nothing ever gets done - it is all for show! You want a real solution - Do NOT buy Ford Motor Company products! The products are overpriced and very low quality anyway, so you are not losing anything.
By the way, the same is true about Ford (and a certain political party and green environmental groups) saving the environment. Ford doesn't care about the environment, neither do the politicians, and green environment groups - if they did they wouldn't destroy farmland in western Michigan to build a new factory when there are dozens (possibly hundreds, perhaps even thousands) of old closed factories, warehouses, industrial properties, etc. all across southeast Michigan just gathering dust, decaying, and remaining urban blight. The same is true in all the major cities across the state of Michigan (just now on the same scale.) Just take a drive through Pontiac Michigan - it is just amazing! Miles and miles of dilapidated buildings and huge empty parking lots. The hilarious thing are some factories are even old Ford factories. One right in Bill Ford's residential backyard (don't believe me, go look at the old Ford Ypsilanti factory). Ford now (right at this very moment) uses it only to park hundreds, possibly thousands of Michigan truck plant Bronco's, etc. Yet the surrounding community has to put up with a decaying eyesore of Ford properties. And just like Billy, I'm sure the current Michigan gov was very concerned about any of the urban blight properties in the state when she signed off on destroying perfectly fine farmland. And if you don't live in Michigan, take a tour on Google maps of southeast Michigan (including the fo-e mentioned city of Pontiac and the Ypsilanti plant). I also know the media and brainwashed "D's" will only go thru Rochester, Northville, Canton, and Bloomfield Hills and say, "See, this guy is wrong and spewing misinformation! Everything is wonderful in southeast Michigan". CNN and MSNBC will probably show pictures of picturesque downtown Rochester with the Christmas light displays. But they will never show the thousands of acres of endless and decaying urban blight. Do you see how they play the game and spin the narrative on everything!
This is why the "Buy American" movement in the auto industry is dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbO7g7lxFb8&t=248s
Committee hearing on youtube
Hard to tell which is the bigger dead man walking - FoMoCo or the State of Michigan goberment. Both are setting all time lows for idoticy.
Glad they are paying attention and not falling for the JF BS