Where was your generator made?

[ultrarunner]

Problem is, even if something is made in USA, it will almost always have foreign sourced parts. Just how it has been for a long time. Not every item needed for a product is made in the USA.

Me, i NEVER shop at walmart. Cant stand the place.

Our new Walmart closed after a few years due to inventory loss and parking lot break ins…

Just drove by it 20 minutes ago and plenty of other shuttered businesses plus Safeway continues to close stores around the Bay Area.

 

[DarkBlack]

Our new Walmart closed after a few years due to inventory loss and parking lot break ins…

Just drove by it 20 minutes ago and plenty of other shuttered businesses plus Safeway continues to close stores around the Bay Area.

Speaks of the neighborhood.
Glad I don’t live there

 

[DarkBlack]

Me, i NEVER shop at walmart. Cant stand the place.

My guess is, it’s the people in your neighborhood Walmart that you are put-off by.

 

[tradosaurus]

 

[5030]

My generac is mostly made in USA, except for the controller, which is some Chinese electronics. Engine, alternator, etc are USA Made.

Both my big Generac standby's were made in Wisconsin and the one has a John Deere turbo diesel engine. Both over 20 years old now and never had an issue with either. I do have a Champion portable inverter and it reeks of China but it works flawlessly. Chinese made hard good are good so long as there is proper and continual oversight. it's when they are left to their own 'devices', things go to poop.

Always tease my doctors.. I say to them, the only thing made here today are babies and they get delivered with Chinese tools.

Hopefully that comes to an end shortly with the new administration and I see there is a movement on to eliminate China from participating and getting profits from the American stock markets. Hopefully them buying land here will be curtailed as well.

 

[5030]

The 2 worst things that happened to this country was 1. Unionization and limited RTW states. 2. World class manufacturing which has allowed manufacturers to source parts and components world wide at the lowest cost but still claim it's 'Made in USA'. Not fond of eating raw fish with chopsticks but it's coming if we (as a nation) don't curtail it.

 

[5030]

Me, i NEVER shop at walmart. Cant stand the place.

Target is just as bad as is Harbor fright to be honest.

 

[DarkBlack]

Both my big Generac standby's were made in Wisconsin and the one has a John Deere turbo diesel engine. Both over 20 years old now and never had an issue with either. I do have a Champion portable inverter and it reeks of China but it works flawlessly. Chinese made hard good are good so long as there is proper and continual oversight. it's when they are left to their own 'devices', things go to poop.

Always tease my doctors.. I say to them, the only thing made here today are babies and they get delivered with Chinese tools.

Hopefully that comes to an end shortly with the new administration and I see there is a movement on to eliminate China from participating and getting profits from the American stock markets. Hopefully them buying land here will be curtailed as well.

I’d love to see electronics manufacturing return to the USA.
Problem is , the current environmental regulations and public perception.
Making electronics has some environmental drawbacks .
NH, MA, used to have significant electronics manufacturing return, but cheaper labor and environmental regulations killed it.

Question is: if environmental pollution travels 1,000’s of miles as reported, what health risks are we actually saving, having the product manufactured in china?

 

[5030]

I’d love to see electronics manufacturing return to the USA.
Problem is , the current environmental regulations and public perception.
Making electronics has some environmental drawbacks .
NH, MA, used to have significant electronics manufacturing return, but cheaper labor and environmental regulations killed it.

Question is: if environmental pollution travels 1,000’s of miles as reported, what health risks are we actually saving, having the product manufactured in china?

None that I'm aware of.... Problem here is not only labor cost but environmental overregulation. The Chinese work for a mere fraction of what the American workers make and factoring in benefits, it makes that disparity even more egregious. Environmental overregulation is causing us to regress, not progress. One reason I'm 100% in favor of DJT's war on tariff's. The Chinese especially, have been screwing us for decades. At least balancing the tariff's will alleviate some of it but not all. The earned wage disparity, I have no clue how to fix that.

American workers aren't going to come 'down on earned wages' that I'm aware of and the Chinese will never come up to where we are simply because the Chinese Communist government would never allow that to happen.

Capitalist societies are their own worst enemies in a number of ways.

 

[5030]

Our new Walmart closed after a few years due to inventory loss and parking lot break ins…

Just drove by it 20 minutes ago and plenty of other shuttered businesses plus Safeway continues to close stores around the Bay Area.

California especially is the most egregious when it comes to environmental overregulation, the main reason why your fuel prices usually far exceed every other state, which I find interesting in as much as California has a ton of refineries and oil wells. Then you have the California Air Quality Resource Board, or CAFE or whatever it's called and their insane 0 emissions tailpipe regulations.

We are striving the be the cleanest, all while China is burning coal at a breakneck rate (alot of it they buy from us btw) and building coal fired power plants willy-nilly as well.

We all exist on the same planet and what China does in the way of pollution of the atmosphere, effects us as well.