SUVs parked on cargo ships reveal scope of U.S. auto market glut

Re:SUVs parked on cargo ships reveal scope of U.S. auto mark... by cma on Friday May 01, 2020 @05:09PM (#23046519)

> Plus for communities, it’s more beneficial than they’re locally owned versus all of the money flowing out.

It means a new concentrated powerful special interest in their local area can outbid them, in their diffuse helplessness, in influencing politics.

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Re:SUVs parked on cargo ships reveal scope of U.S. auto mark... by notfromhere on Friday May 01, 2020 @06:23PM (#23047157)

Do you prefer a concentrated powerful special interest that’s in a HQ far away instead?

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Re:SUVs parked on cargo ships reveal scope of U.S. auto mark... by cma on Friday May 01, 2020 @06:37PM (#23047254)

I just mean for their local politics. It is basically creating an artificial "big man" in the community.

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