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Old 11-02-2014, 02:43 AM   #29
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Default Re: Car making and profits: mutually exclusive?

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Originally Posted by jpblue1000 View Post
we should be building wind turbines, or packaged power generators or trains or ships, flat pack houses, bridges. High value, complex, technological items where the labour cost and vagaries of international currency is partially irrelevant. We should be building things others cant and not giving our secrets away so they can build it after buying one.
Australians can make stuff, just not mass produced cars profitably. we need to think smart about building what others cant or wont.

JP
Unfortunately your mentality is why Australia is going downhill.
ALL your above mentioned are uneconomical and unsustainable.
By the way what are the things we can build that others can't ?????????
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