{"id":279087,"date":"2023-09-17T12:12:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T10:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279087"},"modified":"2023-09-17T12:12:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T10:12:57","slug":"will-the-uaw-strike-accelerate-the-auto-industry-death-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279087","title":{"rendered":"Will the UAW strike accelerate the auto industry death spiral?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ronald Stein<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The UAW strike that began September 14th<\/sup> by 146,000 UAW union members seeking a 46 percent pay raise, and a 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay, and restoration of traditional pensions, will most likely have one of two outcomes, both of which may perpetuate the death spiral for the automobile industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Increased cost of American manufacturing which will further increase the cost of EV\u2019s that are already unaffordable to most, and\/or,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Increasing the cost of U.S. manufacturing, may result in more offshore manufacturing needed which may decimate U.S. stateside manufacturing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The UAW members are not fazed by death spiral already mandated for the automobile industry. The few healthy and wealthy countries of the United States of America, Germany, the UK, and Australia representing 6 percent of the world\u2019s population (505 million vs 7.8 billion) are mandating social changes to achieve zero emissions via EV\u2019s that may be fueling (no pun intended) a death spiral for the automobile industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Simply put, in those healthy and wealthy countries, every person, animal, or anything that causes emissions to harmfully rise could vanish off the face of the earth; or even die off, and global emissions will still explode in the coming years and decades ahead over the population and economic growth of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam, and Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The UAW wants a more lucrative package and are not concerned with the \u201cpieces of the EV puzzle\u201d that may be the formula for an automobile industry death spiral:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Extremely limited supply chain for the lithium to make current technology EV batteries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Lack of sufficient number of buyers, outside the elite profile of existing EV owners<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Shortage and inflation for all the material supplies to make vehicles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Due to EV battery fire potentials, questionable means of transporting EV\u2019s from foreign manufacturers to the USA consumers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Concern about renewable electricity being able to charge EV batteries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. The Governments\u2019 lack of ethical, moral, and social responsibilities, by encouraging the exploitations of people with yellow, brown, and black skin that are mining for exotic minerals and metals in poorer developing countries to support the green movement in wealthy countries.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Where are the batteries?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The UAW race is on for a better contract, while the race is on to produce more lithium in the United States as the supply chain for the major component of EV batteries, lithium, is already being compromised internationally. The following international dark clouds on the lithium supply chain may be a prelude to an American rejection of strip mining in the most environmentally regulated and controlled communities in the world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The Chilean Supreme Court stopped the mining of lithium in Salar de Atacama, Chile \u2013 a huge chunk of terrain that holds 55 percent of the world\u2019s known deposits of lithium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n