Ty
Elio Addict
There are only so many ways Elio can say "We're still here" before they actually get some funding. Until then, these little paragraphs are all we can get.There one thing that really bothers me. From reading this, you'd assume that there has been no work done by automotive sector when it comes to American manufacturing. I know that Elio will employ 1500 people at their plant in 2019 but if you go and look at just the non US automotive companies plus Tesla that operate in the US, since 2010 (when Paul has been all gloom and doom on American manufacturing) approximately 20K automotive plant jobs have been created with either expansion or building brand new automotive plants. By 2021, there will be another 6K created from the new Toyota/Mazda plant in AL and expansion of the Volvo plant in SC. I'm just wondering, does Paul think that creating another 1500 is going to be some major turnaround as opposed to the 20K created while he's been in business?
Then there's the talk about trade deficit. For anyone that has spent any time outside the US or even read the news, the Elio will not be a hit for export. It's either going to be hit with a big tax or just outright banned. They might sell a few thousand but it's not going to be any sort of dent in the trade deficit. BMW exports more X series out of their Spartanburg plant per year than Elio will make total for a year. In 2016, BMW exported 287K cars. I can't find how many VW and MB exports though but I know they do.
Elio really needs to get with the year 2018, not sit and tell us things that were happening in 2010 or just leave out the info that jobs have been created. This blog came out literally on the day that Toyota/Mazda announced that AL was getting 4000 jobs by 2021. Does he really think people don't read the news?