Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Find out why cheap cars are DEAD!" video.

  1. I think once most people realize what has gone wrong it will be too late. Once the western market economies have been damaged it will take 100 years to recover if there ever is a recovery. When cultures collapse they do not necessarily return. The Roman culture existed for almost 800 years and our current culture is about 300 years old.
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  2. There is no big car craze. Governments who are dominated by the upper classes are hell bent on lower the standards of living for the working classes. The larger cars are to be owned by the upper classes that will still go to the alps for their family midterm breaks.
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  3. The issue is not the manufacturers and is the regulations that are shaping the economy as a whole. There is a reason why very little is manufactured in the west. Cars are probably one of the last things that are manufactured in the west.
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  4. You are very naive if you think the new upper classes want people to have access to horses. Once cars are changed over to electric they will then work to ban those and so on the downward spiral flows. They will claim bicycles damage the environment.
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  5. It used to be that smaller cars could be built with good engineering at a reasonable price. Those days are gone so now what is produced is a small car that is cheap and unreliable.
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  6. I will be realistic here so that some of you can understand what is about to go down. The move to electric vehicles will destroy the western markets. There is not enough copper in reserve to build an economy of electric cars that is being legislated by government. It is impossible that all cars will be electric by 2030 or even 2040. They will need to create a new alloy that can do the job of copper and be easy to manufacture. And that also applies to renewable.
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  7. Electric is the future but that is not what is happening. Governments are willing this in to existence through legislation. It is not a technological development of the marketplace. Tesla are advancing the technology but that is not the government regulations that are in place.
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  8. The issue here is not the manufacturers it is the regulations that impact everything in cars from the emissions to the actual manufacturing of parts. Even the foot print of workers is dictates the regulatory framework of manufacturing.
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  9. "most govs subsidize fossil fuels" That is absolutely false.
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  10.  @teklife  Oil is a global commodity and the major oil producers are profitable. Take Royal Dutch Shell it has $25 billion cash on hand. All the major oil companies pay taxes to the governments and what they receive back is nothing more than peanuts which is the same for very tax payer.
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  11. EV cars require lots of copper and to make the whole system of transport copper would require every inch of soil to be dug up and still there will not be enough copper.
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  12. Governments have to get the money from somewhere to provide grants. It does not just drop out of the sky.
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  13. That is the planned economy that elite upper classes talk about in their forums and conventions and will even publize it in the media. Common folk will be expect to walk and eat insects with the claims they are happier with their new plastic shiny phones.
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  14. China will not fill the cheap void. The EU and US market is going to be regulated so that the likes of Chinese cars will not be allowed into their market places. Only the centrally planned government approved products will be sold.
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  15. You are correct in that the costs of cars have been increased on purpose but it has more to do with the market planning that the likes of Davos are involved in. If you have noticed it is not just the price of cars that have increased in the last 15 years but houses, computers, watches, soaps, food and machines.
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  16. The upper classes of society that attend the best schools, run the civil service and dominate government have a complete disdain for the working classes. Britain's class system never really went away and now it is present in every country in the west.
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  17. You are wrong if you think Electric cars will come down in price. The one thing they need is copper and those reserves are nowhere near large enough to do make all cars electric.
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  18.  @zippy_uk1046  Electric vehicles have far greater copper within them and they also require copper as part of a charging infrastructure. And that copper use will have to be competing with renewable energy, general industry and other everyday uses. Electric cars are not dropping in price government subsidy is propping the industry up and will not help bring prices down.
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  19. There is no SUV craze. Manufacturers have been forced into a corner that they have to produce them. An executive in the car industry told me 15 years ago that the margins for production have become so tight that they could not justify the price of modern cars to the marketplace. And that was all achieved through government regulations.
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