Only problem is that Ms. Cutter is intentionally misstating what the ad said. Take the traffic lights for instance. The claim made in the ad is sourced - and is correct. Ms. Cutter's carefully crafted language notes that the lights are
assembled in the USA but she left out that those assembly workers are using parts that were
manufactured overseas. From the Pittsburgh Tribune article, sourced in the ad, from October 16, 2011:
The United States is spending tens of millions of federal economic stimulus dollars to replace streetlights and traffic lights nationwide with energy-efficient ones made mostly in Asia, a Tribune-Review investigation found.
An exemption in the "Buy American" clause of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 -- legislation President Obama championed to create American jobs -- says components and subcomponents of green-energy products need not actually be U.S.-made. As a result, the Trib found, many products needed to make streetlights, traffic lights and other high-tech products are manufactured in China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.
The rest of her empty protestations are similar in nature. The Fisker Karma, as the ad notes, is being built in Finland. That's true - that is where the vehicle is being built. Fisker's himself has said that decision was made because there were no workers here capable of building the car that was designed in California. And yes, Fiskers does have plans to build a less expensive vehicle, not the Karma which is the only vehicle currently being manufactured, at the shuttered Government Motors Plant in Delaware - someday, perhaps, maybe, if DOE loans come through. Full article here:
http://green.autoblog.com/2012/04/05/fi ... -karma-tr/
Fisker Automotive may drop plans to use a Delaware factory to build its upcoming Atlantic sedan and is looking at "other options," Automotive News is reporting, citing an interview with company CEO Tom LaSorda.
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Fisker will hold off on deciding on the Atlantic's production site until the end of summer, which will delay the debut of the model. LaSorda maintains that Fisker will be able to produce the Atlantic with or without Department of Energy funding, Automotive News reports. Fisker's director of corporate communications, Russell Datz, tells AutoblogGreen that the company remains "committed to Delaware" but admits that if the rest of the company's DOE loan money does not come through, the plan to build the Atlantic in Delaware could change.
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Two days ago, Fisker unveiled a prototype of the Fisker Atlantic – previously known as Project Nina – and gave more details before the New York Auto Show. Specifically, the car will be priced similarly to an Audi A5 – somewhere in the $45,000 range – and officials say its on-board gas-powered range extender will be a BMW four-cylinder engine. No details have been revealed about driving range or when first deliveries might take place.
This was also an interesting tidbit that was found - noticeably absent from Ms Cutter's rebuttal:
As a cost saving measure the entire manufacturing process of the Karma is outsourced from parts creation to final assembly. Fisker Automotives only in-house responsibility is designing the cars. 750 people develop the car but Fisker Auto only retains 100 on it's payroll.
http://www.thecarelectric.com/content/fisker.php
In other words - the only people Ms. Cutter's remarks will find traction with are the Obots themselves listening to the reverberations of their own echo chambers.
