Re:Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022
by ChuckMcM on Friday September 17, 2021 @06:08PM
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Okay, that is pretty crazy. I mean resistors aren't that big after all :-). Of course when the great resistor/capacitor shortage hit I looked into building a manufacturing plant in the US. It would have been surprisingly affordable however I was warned off by all of the environmental hate that would come my way if I tried.
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Re:Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022
by WalterBright on Friday September 17, 2021 @06:25PM
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Yeah, stopping your assembly line due to having ordered 312 resistors and you needed 313 is just - plain - madness. But that's what they did, and took a big hit to the bottom line because of it.
Part of the problem stemmed from rating employees on how successful they were at JIT inventory. You get what you rank for, not what makes sense.
Re:Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022
by maxerickson on Friday September 17, 2021 @10:49PM
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Would it not have been affordable to make it clean?
Re:Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022
by ChuckMcM on Saturday September 18, 2021 @12:49AM
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Yes, however a weird side effect of the environmental laws in the US (and California in particular) is that you can use the state to incur so much cost to the builder to show that it would be clean, creates a huge sunk cost you have to pay back before your manufacturing plant is making any money.
It doesn't make a lot of sense, and sadly there is no equivalent of "recovering court costs" from the people who exploited the law to shut you down.