Certainly good nes to the 2,000 laid off workers recently, put out of work due to gas prices and gas driven SUV's.
One can only hope the wait will not be too long and the existing plant can be retrofitted in time for christmas where everyone needs a break to get through a tough Car industry economy and get consumers buying trucks again in 2009 that for once will live up to the hybrid expectations.
GM will build hybrids at Oshawa plant, CAW saysStaff and Reuters
June 21, 2008 at 3:52 PM EDT
General Motors has changed its mind and will build hybrid pickup trucks in Oshawa, Ont., after all.
So says the Canadian Auto Workers union, which added that assembly of the hybrid truck will begin in the fall.
CAW local 222 president Chris Buckley told CTV Newsnet on Saturday that GM's move was a “glimmer of hope” that the plant may remain open, although there is no indication that plans to close the plant next year have changed.
“It's a small win,” Mr. Buckley said. “We need to take some larger steps to secure the jobs of our 2,600 members that will be affected [by the closure].”
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No matter how much attention is put on the price of gas it will still be high, at least higher by $1.50 over last year. Hybrids and other bio fuels will take a while to get into the main stream and are not replacing the millions of cars we have on the road tomorrow that run on gas and diesel. In my ideal world gas would be the same price as it is in Argentina, 12 cents a gallon, but it's not. So I decided to cruise the web looking how to stop the bleeding and beating my walet takes everytime I pull up to the pump. Check out this site I found, http://www.gasbankusa.com. The site talks about locking in a fixed price for gas. An interesting idea and good concept as long as gas doesn't go down in price but I am not holding my breath for that to happen. GasBankUSA acctually looks like a pretty good solution to save on gas.
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