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U.S. Government Orders Hybrid Vehicles
The government will be spending about $285 million by June 1 in Detroit by trading in their older gas guzzlers to purchase about 17,600 new vehicles from GM, Ford and Chrysler. Part of the stimulus bill, it couldn’t have come at a better time for the beleaguered industry. About 2,500 hybrid sedans like the Chevy Malibu, Saturn Aura and Ford Hybrid Fusion have been ordered. Now if we could just get our local governments to follow suit.
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this is good news for the automakers and a good step toward a greener Government fleet. However, I would be curious to know how much of the these vehicle’s content is from Mexico. I recently saw a piece on TV that questioned Ford on the fact that a significant amount of the content in the Fusion goes to support Mexican workers, (at a criminally low exploitive wage). I know our trading partners cringe at any buy American clauses, but I am one taxpayer who dosen’t want my money to support any more tranference of American jobs to Mexico to exploit the cheap labor.
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good for us
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