A huge problem has formed in the automobile industry. Well, actually problems...
The covaids lockdowns disrupted the flow of goods and parts, and this ended up with a lot of automobiles being almost complete, but just not ready for sale. Still some auto parts are incredibly difficult to obtain.
The automobile industry has taken it upon themselves to embody planned obsolescence, and worse. Cars, instead of becoming easier to fix have become extremely difficult, extremely complex, and extremely part interdependent. (as in one part breaking, like the tail light, can cause the engine to die.)
And the mother WEFers want to remove car ownership from poor people. (if you are not a millionaire, you are a poor person) Cars are becoming extremely expensive, through price manipulation and increasing interest rates. While the normal person is finding it harder to make ends meet.
The BRICS are getting together to make a currency to rival The US$. When this happens, America may find it much more expensive to import goods. Especially from China. And this means a good deal of our replacement parts as well as a good deal of the parts that go into new automobiles is going to go up in price, or become unavailable.
The American automobile manufacturers are on the ropes. Even after being bailed out, these corporate giants are still finding it hard to produce cars economically and make a profit. This could be the end of the American automobile. And this may have been planned.
Will America have to become like Cuba to keep our cars running?
Cuba, after being embargoed from American imports/exports turned to their machinists and mechanics to keep their cars running. They borrowed, copied, fixed, welded pieces to keep their automobiles on the road. And they did a really good job, so that you can go down there (not from The US) and see a seen right out of the 60s.
What happens if America gets isolated from the world of replacement parts?
What if GM goes out of business. Or just stops building cars in America?
Well then, we are going to have to become really good at jerry rigging cars, finding workarounds to keep a car running.
Or, we start building cars ourselves.
Distributed Manufacturing
The manufacturing line was a great improvement on efficiency. However, there are many problems with it, such as:
- it is very costly to build the the thing that moves the car around while getting assembled.
- there is only so much time for each step... and some steps take much longer than others.
- you need an incredibly large building that is tied to doing only one thing. You have to close down this building to change it over to do something else (new car line)
- there is very little you can do to the manufacturing line. You can't speed it up, you can't slow it down. You can only make so many automobiles, there is no way to change this number.
With distributed manufacturing, you can build your products in much smaller buildings, including, your garage. It is easy to change these spaces over to building something else.
You can scale up by getting more space. (Just have to beg your friends to use their garage.)
You can grow smaller.
And although you need a more intelligent person to do this kind of assembly, you get a better product because you have someone with a larger knowledge base of how all the pieces are to work together.
When designing something for small scale manufacturing, you usually end up with a product that can disassembled to be fixed. (ie parts being bolted together instead of one way processes like snap together or welded.
New technology and new ways of making things are bringing what used to take mile long factories down to garage sized.
This will be the new future as controls and product manipulation make the old way undesirable for so many reasons.
- Parts becoming wicked expensive
- Repairs becoming impossible, and often more expensive than a new car.
- Supply chain issues making cars unavailable.
- Insane, WEF based, green energy laws make normal cars unavailable. (all electric by 2025... and we know they can't make enough electric vehicles buy then.)
This will be our answer to the mother WEFers trying to limit our ownership of things.
We will make them ourselves.