The end looms for local car manufacturers?

[bobthebilda]

Thanks JG34JA, no I'm not a builder, more of a destroyer. But not sure that high lighting the greatness that cames from isolating yourself from the rest of the world, holds much currency, when you dont also mention the inevitable wars (altho you alluded to wwii) that result from it many years down the track.

I assume somehow we are supposed to say to china and japan etc, please take our hundreds of billions of dollars of resources each year, but you can shove your $18 billion dollars of cars.

I somehow dont feel comforted by knowing that if we did get in another war, we will be able to build 25% of a cruze, or 66% of a Falcon or commodore (remember we cant import anything, so they would have no tyres lol), and use them in any defensive or attacking action against the enemy.

I do feel comforted by knowing that chung wung in beijing, or Jimmy kawasaki in nagasaki, have plenty of food in their bellys from australian agriculture and a good home made from australian iron ore. Because they have the ability to freely trade something they have, with something we have (no need to fight over something if you have something to trade). Their forefathers often did not see things this way.

Keep swapping with chung and jimmy and their insumountable 1.4 billion countrymen until the resources run out and it doesnt matter who has what anyhow. Try building a car with no iron ore, coal or oil.