Subj : Re: Honda
To   : Hustler
From : Adept
Date : Mon Jun 05 2023 10:38:15

 Hu>  Well, keep in mind jobs were at stake. Buy American not Japanese was the
 Hu> theme. Pay more for gas to support America. I kept my old cars much
 Hu> longer then I should have. I finally bought a Dodge K-car 4 banger that
 Hu> got 18-town and 28 hyway

I think the supply chain made it interesting, too, since buying one nationality over another was oftentimes only about brand ownership, with the Japanese cars oftentimes being assembled in the US while the US cars were assembled in Mexico.

Or something like that, with parts from a variety of locations.

But I'm not stating this from any particular point of knowledge. Just that, as an end consumer, it's hard to know what exactly you're getting, aside from when talking to individual people like at a local-only farmers' market. And it's kind of annoying when, "avoid buying foreign products from a certain country" becomes "buy products from a certain country through a middleman".

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