Comments by "Lee Darkguardian" (@darkguardian1314) on "First Great Lakes freighter built since 1981 gets ready to set sail" video.

  1. I remembered the last freighter launched in Lorain in 1981, "William De Lancy," before it closed down. Carter and Reagan didn't watch out for us in the midwest, allowing Japan and foreign steel to run roughshod over us leading to auto, shipyards, and steel to nearly be wiped out. Reagan especially since everything went out of business on his watch. Yet, he favored California which did very well with the growth of Silicon Valley and the military.
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  2.  @oldmech619  Yeah, graduating that year there were no jobs not even fast food once unemployment ran out for laid-off workers. At the time, even if steel and auto did modernize, it would take years and the steel being imported was just too cheap and plentiful. They were priced at cost to capture market shares. A presidential tariff or limit should have been imposed and a requirement for the industry to modernized to compete against the new imports. Kamra came to Japan when Mexico and China came online and now Vietnam and India are starting to take shares from China. It really comes down to cheap nonunionized labor and lenient environmental regulations.
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  3. Batteries have limitations like cycle life and capacity. The Great Lakes can be stormy (Edmund Fitzgerald) and the last thing you need is low batteries and high waves. Though there are laws being past for all electric cars there's the issue of the Grid that can't handle the additional loads of all those electric vehicles needing recharging. California recently required all electric vehicles by 2035 but they're Grid is already strained with flex alerts and brown outs. What to do about spent batteries and child labor in Africa mining lithium. Devil is in the details.
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