kscarbel2

Ford Trucks Spain / March 30, 2020 The Ford Trucks Spain dealer network remains operational to meet the needs of transport professionals who continue to do a fantastic job at this difficult time. We leave you a list with the phones and emergency emails and 24 hour service: https://lnkd.in/dx93GsP. We are at your service. .

The news would indicate they didn't refuse. The politicians that engineered the GM bailout deceived the American taxpayer, knowing they were never going to be paid back in full.

The Coronavirus illustrates the massive mistake of allowing "big business" to offshore the production of vital products, be it masks, gloves or medicine.

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) reached an 18-year low overnight of $19.92. I expect WTI to fall to the low teens, worsening a disaster for the U.S. energy sector.

Good news. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization for the drugs Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin to be taken together in treatment of the Coronavirus. https://www.france24.com/en/20200330-us-fda-gives-emergency-approval-of-anti-malaria-drugs-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine-for-coronavirus

I believe that if an adequate supply of masks were available, which isn't the case, that would play a major role in reducing the "spread". https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html

When you approached your Mack dealer with those part numbers, what did they say? Your Mack dealer sells new Mack parts.

The Detroit Auto Show has been canceled. The venue, COBO center, is being converted into a Coronavirus field hospital. Many car dealers, after already shuttering showrooms, are now sending the remaining employees home (putting workers on standby unemployment).

Both warm climate Singapore and Indonesia are seeing the virus. If that means the warm summer weather in the US will not subdue it, buying us more time for vaccine and drug treatment development, I am extremely concerned. Again, China beat this by making everyone stay home (compartmentalizing). It works. But other countries have been reluctant to go to that extreme. Everyone should wear a mask when they're around others, to prevent transmission. I suspect the reason the government oddly proclaimed masks don't help is because of the massive shortage..........they just barely have enough for medical staff. Masks do help, I can tell you. In the US, people think you must have something if you're wearing a mask. In Asia, they think you're attempting to avoid catching something by wearing a mask. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ President Trump reversed himself on Sunday, extending national social-distancing guidelines to April 30 in effort to avoid a major death toll. The president pointed to modeling that forecast 2.2 million deaths in the U.S. if drastic measures weren't taken. Trump is working to keep the projected death toll below 100,000. "So if we can hold that down, as we're saying, to 100,000, it's a horrible number, maybe even less, but to 100,000, so we have between 100 and 200,000, we all together have done a very good job," Trump said. White House health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci says the US could see up to 200,000 deaths, and millions of infections.

This is a tough subject. Obviously I respect your thoughts, your ethics, morals and values. If my daughter was raped (heaven forbid), I would support her choice for an early termination. We'd rather she gave birth to a child fathered by her chosen husband.

My gut tells me we are not being told the full story, the exact truth, about the virus. But certainly the world leaders know. I imagine truth would be a catalyst for the panic they don't want.

Does anyone have a link on Cuomo having 100,000 ventilators in a warehouse? Fake news? I only see there are an estimated 100,000 units nationwide..................https://www.marketwatch.com/story/soaring-demand-for-ventilators-creates-political-tension-promises-to-ramp-up-manufacturing-2020-03-25

I have some experience with this. Using December 31 as a reference point, when the Wuhan hospitals began treating cases, it's far colder than 85 degrees F there. On that day, the high was 45 and the low 36. https://weather.com/weather/monthly/l/2637660151899903e8cbdd23636051470b6731863286ec74b3033421cb87e1e8

Yes, at face value (most of us have never known a major political figure personally), I'm impressed with how he carries himself at the New York state press releases, particularly with the questions and answers.

Can you please share a news link on the 100,000 ventilators ? Beyond that, I'm not from New York and thus have never paid attention to him. But his performance in these press meetings by any stretch is impressive. I get the anti-abortion stance of some. I'm not up on Cuomo's stance.....on anything. My thought is, if a couple of teenagers or college kids mistakenly test their equipment without protection, and obviously in cases of rape, an early term abortion is acceptable. Quarantines preventing inter-state travel by the masses, excluding trucking, could become a necessity. The reason China was able to kick this is because they could order people to stay home (aside from essential food shopping) with immediate effect, prohibiting intra-city and inter-province travel. I'm hoping warmer weather, I heard 77 degrees F, has a positive effect. That would buy time for the developments of vaccines and more medicines for treatment, assuming worst case scenario it would return next winter. SARS, for example, for whatever reason, never returned. Otherwise, as extremely contagious as it appears to be, many states might be 2 or more months away from peaking. There's a limit to how long our national economy can take a beating. Any longer and a recovery will take considerable time.

I like the now discontinued conventional cab Scania "T Series" as well. .

Reuters / April 30, 2014 The U.S. government lost $11.2 billion on its bailout of General Motors, more than the $10.3 billion the Treasury Department estimated when it sold its remaining GM shares in December. The $11.2 billion loss includes a write-off in March of the government’s remaining $826 million investment in “old” GM. The U.S. government spent about $50 billion to bail out GM. As a result of the company’s 2009 bankruptcy, the government’s investment was converted to a 61 percent equity stake in GM, plus preferred shares and a loan. Treasury whittled down its GM stake through a series of stock sales starting in November 2010, with the remaining shares sold on December 9, 2013. At the time of the December sale, Treasury put the total loss at $10.3 billion but said it did not expect any significant proceeds from its remaining $826 million investment in “old” GM. “The goal of Treasury’s investment in GM was never to make a profit, but to help save the American auto industry, and by any measure that effort was successful,” Treasury Department spokesman Adam Hodge said. Last week, GM posted its 17th consecutive profitable quarter.

The B-24 Liberator may have had a larger bomb load than the B-17, but I never trusted it. Particularly the early ones, they were a death trap. The Consolidated Liberator was designed by bean counters to be expendable, while the Boeing B-17 alike the B-29 was designed to complete the mission and return to base. Many Americans died needlessly in the 1941-1943 period because we entered the war with shockingly inferior weaponry. Granted, we'd just been in extended depression.

This gentleman is a born leader and manager. .

Bloomberg / March 28, 2020 Sixteen months after Mary Barra angered Donald Trump by announcing plans to close several U.S. factories in states the president vowed to revive, the General Motors Co. CEO is back on the outs with the White House. Unlike in late 2018, Trump’s Friday fracas over ventilators caught GM completely off guard. Trump first accused GM of taking too long to make the desperately needed medical devices and of trying to gouge the government. By the evening, the President again criticized the automaker for closing a car factory in Ohio. Executives at GM -- which had worked around the clock for a week to convert an Indiana parts plant into a breathing-machine factory -- were themselves frustrated over how long it was taking the federal government to finalize terms with its partner Ventec Life Systems Inc. GM forged ahead and detailed the ventilator deal in a midday statement that disputed President Trump by saying it would be “contributing its resources at cost.” Trump followed up with an order that GM accept a federal contract that the company and Ventec had been seeking all along. Patching things up with the White House will be crucial for a company that is struggling to cope with idled plants amid the coronavirus pandemic. GM is freezing work on new-vehicle programs, deferring pay for white-collar staff and piling up cash to weather a global health crisis and the economic fallout expected to follow for months to come. “The entire GM team is proud to support this initiative,” GM said. “Our commitment to build Ventec’s high-quality critical care ventilator, VOCSN, has never wavered.”

He's on top of things, not a character trait of many governmental leaders these days. . . .

Interestingly, he doesn't come across at all as a democrat.

Am I the only person impressed with what I see of New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo? His performances day-after-day in his Coronavirus press briefings are amazing. Who would like to write him in as President next term? I'm liking this guy from Queens who knows what he's talking about and doesn't beat around the bush. I would like to reboot the United States on the global scene with Cuomo at the helm. And as an added bonus, he reminds me at times of Robert De Niro in the Godfather.

You're right Bob. I believe Ford is producing at a non=standard site, i.e. not at one of the auto final assembly plants.