GM truck plant closing in oshawa
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 1:44 pm
the biggest fear to my community has happened jobs will now be so scarce in a year plus im thankful i work in alberta 6-8 months a year. has anyone else been getin the finger as they drive around town? i dont speed or drive like an idiot so i know thats not why. i drive a car built by north americans most likely right here in ontario seeing theres a mazda plant. mazda, honda, nissan, toyota, are all bashed by domestic owners everyday here. The thing i dont get the 4 mentioned car companies all of plants in ontario, all of them are made in north america except maybe a few models shipped over (the new skyline i think. now the gms you see driving around aree most likely built in some 2nd or 3rd world country and canadian/american built cars over 50% of the parts and electronics come from these other countries. its no wonder why imports are taking over they provide jobs for whom buys their cars, theres taalks of honda taking over the truck plant, imports are now domestically built and assembled hence why their a solid reliable vehicle that now has equal power. i say f--- gm looking for cheap labour moving to countries where the last time there was a union strike the army killed all the protesers yet others support them and keep buying their products. we should make a list of the gm cars made in canada and the u.s and what imports are to compare
i know the malibu and impala are out of oshawa. The camaro also but oshawa built camaros were announced to be cut back from 120,000 to 40,000 total next year.
maybe thats gms problem not switching to the better on gas vvti v8 which they cancelled and keepiing the gaS guzzling push rod v8's as i just personally sold my 2000 1500 with a 5.3 due to the gas mileage. their car that had the biggest increase in sales between this month last year and this month this year is the wave and aveo their sales are up 85% im pretty sure. yet they invest in a new over priced camaro with what a push rod 6.0l and 7.0l im pretty sure. why not redesign the compact cars they have to make them a more attractive looking car not a modern day metro or sprint.
The only gm cars that are keeping oshawa a float are the impala mainly because of the sales to police services which is declining as they prefer the rear drive v8 crown vic over the front drive v6 impala. outside ontario i have not seen an impala police vehicle, they were fords or dodges for the most part. so why not join the mainstream like ford and dodge and have the impala front engine rear wheel drive like the impalas and caprices of the past. i remeber almost every police car growing up being a caprice until the body style of the crown vic changed.
i wonder am i on track or making uneducated statements? if im on track why dont we band together and make a intteligent informative article to write in to the newspaper to contradict what others are writing about support domestic cars THAT ARENT EVEN BUILT BY US. gm isnt coming back times have changed we as a community should also adapt welcome companies like honda, a ethanol plant (which enviromentalists are trying to stop when atlantic packaging produces 5 times more pollution in a day then a ethanol plant would in a month. y not an incenerator we pay how many truck driver and gas plus a penalty to dump our garbage in michigan. y not oil refineries so we dnt have to sell our crude oil to bush to refine it and buy it back at a way higher cost. with our canadian dollar so high we have to start looking out for ourselves or ill be buying a 300 000 dollar house for 150 000 next year when the gm workers benefits wear out. i want to work locally and have my gas fitter 3 but jobs are so scarce here u start at 12 an hour. where as the first time i went out to alberta as a labourer only i took home 4-5000 every two weeks and ill scan my pay stubs to prove if theres anyone that doubts it. and just some information about gas prices. theres more crude oil in saskatchewan than there ever was in the history of alberta. there are thousands of oil wells that are just capped off due to the government not wanting to pump it and tie it into the trans canada pipeline(which i worked on this year) manitoba has major oil sands projects starting up north, they drilled and capped off oil wells in newfoundland for the same reason. maybe too much supply not enough demand. gm ha da electric car leased to movie stars and other people of importance...lol... that everyone wanted to buy out but texaco bought the patents on the battery system and destroyed every car. anyone wonder y electric cars get such horrible range texaco owns the patent on the only battery system to get over 1000 kms on one charge.
i know the malibu and impala are out of oshawa. The camaro also but oshawa built camaros were announced to be cut back from 120,000 to 40,000 total next year.
maybe thats gms problem not switching to the better on gas vvti v8 which they cancelled and keepiing the gaS guzzling push rod v8's as i just personally sold my 2000 1500 with a 5.3 due to the gas mileage. their car that had the biggest increase in sales between this month last year and this month this year is the wave and aveo their sales are up 85% im pretty sure. yet they invest in a new over priced camaro with what a push rod 6.0l and 7.0l im pretty sure. why not redesign the compact cars they have to make them a more attractive looking car not a modern day metro or sprint.
The only gm cars that are keeping oshawa a float are the impala mainly because of the sales to police services which is declining as they prefer the rear drive v8 crown vic over the front drive v6 impala. outside ontario i have not seen an impala police vehicle, they were fords or dodges for the most part. so why not join the mainstream like ford and dodge and have the impala front engine rear wheel drive like the impalas and caprices of the past. i remeber almost every police car growing up being a caprice until the body style of the crown vic changed.
i wonder am i on track or making uneducated statements? if im on track why dont we band together and make a intteligent informative article to write in to the newspaper to contradict what others are writing about support domestic cars THAT ARENT EVEN BUILT BY US. gm isnt coming back times have changed we as a community should also adapt welcome companies like honda, a ethanol plant (which enviromentalists are trying to stop when atlantic packaging produces 5 times more pollution in a day then a ethanol plant would in a month. y not an incenerator we pay how many truck driver and gas plus a penalty to dump our garbage in michigan. y not oil refineries so we dnt have to sell our crude oil to bush to refine it and buy it back at a way higher cost. with our canadian dollar so high we have to start looking out for ourselves or ill be buying a 300 000 dollar house for 150 000 next year when the gm workers benefits wear out. i want to work locally and have my gas fitter 3 but jobs are so scarce here u start at 12 an hour. where as the first time i went out to alberta as a labourer only i took home 4-5000 every two weeks and ill scan my pay stubs to prove if theres anyone that doubts it. and just some information about gas prices. theres more crude oil in saskatchewan than there ever was in the history of alberta. there are thousands of oil wells that are just capped off due to the government not wanting to pump it and tie it into the trans canada pipeline(which i worked on this year) manitoba has major oil sands projects starting up north, they drilled and capped off oil wells in newfoundland for the same reason. maybe too much supply not enough demand. gm ha da electric car leased to movie stars and other people of importance...lol... that everyone wanted to buy out but texaco bought the patents on the battery system and destroyed every car. anyone wonder y electric cars get such horrible range texaco owns the patent on the only battery system to get over 1000 kms on one charge.