General Motors Corp. has struck a deal to sell its Hummer truck unit to a Chinese industrial business, Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd. cnn.com/money
Trading a bicycle for a Hummer.
U.S. taxpayers, owning a major share of Government Motors, have given the Chinese people a new tool to consume themselves into the same standard of unsustainable living that has brought the U.S. population to it's current state .
More is always better.
The current success of the global free market has depended on massive consumption. What better tool to speed up this process for China than a vehicle, that when properly equipped, can consume gallons per mile!
Depleting China's resources, and increasing their standard of living and thus leveling wages with us will surely keep the quality of life in the U.S. from eroding further from outsourcing.
A free freezer filled with grain feed beef as an incentive with each Chinese Hummer sold in China would help complicate their diet further, burn up resources faster and make Chinese people less healthy.
As an added bonus, U.S. consumers will be able to continue to enjoy their ride in a new outsourced, Chinese made Hummer in the near future.
I ran across Todd Leader of Windsor Township at the street rod event this weekend and his 1948 Jeepster convertible. The rag top had been stored for years and was destined for salvage had he not given it a home. It was an interesting find for me in the sea of plastic reproductions with large late model V-8 engines.
The Jeepster was produced by Willys-Overland after WWII as a way to market the Jeep name to someone other than farmers and people who needed to climb over logs. It was the civilian car version of a name made famous by a war.
And Whoa...! a 1941 Willys with a supercharger and a big block V-8. That might just be gallons per mile! Um, yeah...not the original drive train for that Willys.
