Prius plant in America - Do you care?

Published Feb. 13, 2009 at 3:10 p.m.
An American-made foreign oil dependency fighter?

Now that Toyota is offering buyouts for US workers and cutting pay for everyone, a new US plant to develop Prius hybrids - in America - appears dead.

Do you care? Many don't because it's a foreign company.

Yet, when the first Chevy Volt hits the street in 2010, it will be manufactured with an imported engine and an imported battery - the most critical component in the vehicle.

Do you care?

Couldn't having significant numbers of Toyota hybrid vehicles built in America help develop a US battery industry? Wouldn't that be a good thing?

Is this the time for nationalism, or the intelligent acceptance of the global economy?


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