May20
With both Ford hurting in truck and SUV sales and GM eliminating shift to slow production of its large trucks, high gas prices are having an effect on jobs at automakers’ plants. The question is what, if anything, are they doing about it? To ramp up production at its slowing Indiana assembly plant, Toyota plans on exporting vehicles built there to the Middle East and China.
The Japanese automaker’s largest SUV, the Sequoia, will begin shipping to the Middle East later on this year, while the Sienna minivan will be exported to China and other markets starting in 2010, as per a report in Asahi Shimbun daily paper. Both models are produced at the Indiana plant.
No sources were cited in the report, and a Toyota spokesperson would not comment on the reports, saying only the automaker is always looking for the best ways to supply vehicles on a global basis. Apart from the Avalon flagship sedan, Toyota does not currently export any of its U.S.-made products.
That big gas hog **** in the pic above goes to Saudi.
It’s an absolute shame what has happened to the oil industry here in America. In the late 1980’s, early 1990’s, California had the cheapest gas in the country. AM-PM markets sold ARCO brand gas that was routinely $0.20 cheaper than the major brands while being of nearly the same quality. This gas was completely produced using California and other USA oil so the shipping costs were minimal. Now, California has the highest gas in the lower 48. Cities like Bakersfield thrived on the oil industry, but that’s not the case any longer. When we pump oil locally the prices go way down. It’s time congress quite worrying about animals that are due to be naturally selected from the reality of planet Earth and realize that the human race depends on strong economies and strong economies depend on affordable energy.
Damn, they still build the Avalon? I haven’t seen an Avalon in years.
With or without animal kingdom the price of oil has only one way to travel. In the past 40 years population of planet increased 3 fold. And all those newcomers want ot drive cars just like us Americans. This fad become quite popular lately. All those cars require oil for production of fuels, tires and plastic for very same cars. Just imagine there 1.2 billion Chinese all whom wan cars and almost a billion Indians with same desires. And I think Africa is next in line. In past 25 years US population increased about 20% and none of those folks are willing to ride bike or bus.
At least Toyota finding market for those behemoths that should not been build in the first place.
stick2clutch, visit Florida. Plenty Avalons to see, they are not extinct.
@xyunya
Countries that produce oil have very cheap gas. If you control the supply, you can dictate the price. Our national interests are for lower gas prices, and if we control the supply of oil for that gas then the global demand will be lessoned and thus overall prices will drop.
You want to get rich quick? Go work up in the Alberta tar sands for a few years. Whatever you heard about it being too tough or too costly to extract just went out the window about 40 or 50 dollars a barrel ago.
@xyunya
Further, the reason oil prices have skyrocketed is because in the 1990’s OPEC made a conscious decision to dump cheap oil on the market, thus eliminating the cost effectiveness of drilling here in the USA. As our oil industry shrank OPEC tightened supply, thus increasing prices. Now, we find ourselves unable to expand our oil industry because of ridiculous regulations on building new refineries and drilling new oil fields.
Good get them the f*ck out of here!!! Sorry you eat fords dust in truck sales every year. Its probably good that your people squint, because if they opened there eyes, they’d realize what a piece of sh*t product you build.
Wow. That’s just great. First they try to beat us in an economic war, and now they’re getting our dumb asses to do the work while they sit back and watch us export them. Listen up import-loyalists: Regardless of your defense remarks, all the money goes back to Japan. Remember that.
Payton, I would love to blame everything on OPEC, schmuck in Venezuela, Russian KGB mafia ruling the country and GAZPROM, however we(US) have tremendous appetite for oil. Pictured monsters should not be born to begin with: it is automotive anomaly, result of psychotic overconsumption. It needs to be curtailed.
I remember 70’s & early 80’s gas shortages and country reacted and dropped consumption dramatically. Prices of oil went from $40 to $10/barrel. Unfortunately the price reduction created Suburban and Expedition craze along with smallish 4500 sq. feet homes which are needed to be heated or air conditioned or both.
Just like housing cycle of late 80’s history repeats itself. However, even if we drop demand for oil drastically, the rest of the world (and the rest of the world is 6 billion people) wants to drive cars, live in air conditioned housing or have heat in the winter. Number of consumer goes up, yet oil production either peaked already or will peak shortly (more details you can find in Economist). US oil production peaked in about 1973 without any help from OPEC embargo, which was coincidentally at the same time.
The moral is we need to shrink cars, homes, and consume less. We probably will anyway because everything will cost much more.
After all I think you would want to leave something for your children and their children to burn.
CleanGTO, if you cant beat them join them: buy Toyota stock and keep profits in this country!
@xyunya
In an expanding economy controlling demand is only possible through increasing prices. Since that’s politically and socially painful for necessities, the option is to increase supply. We know that there are billions and billions of barrels of oil available in Alaska, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. Places like Tennessee are starting to recover their oil industry. Oil may never get below $40 a barrel again, but $125 is a point where long term planners will see a benefit in increasing production so they can at least take advantage of $80 oil which will probably be the stabilizing point. The problem is that our government simply acts as a barrier to doing what needs to be done. Someone needs to disband the EPA, and do it immediately.
Payton, EPA was created by act of congress. Is you congressman(woman) ready to eliminate branch of the government? And it is not EPA fault or decision. Congress can override the EPA and open country for drilling and exploration. And we will drill and explore every drop of oil, but price will go up. It is not much oil and oily deposits (including sand in Canada) that can be harvested economically. During WWII Germany relied on gasoline produced out of coal, but the price and quality somewhat prohibitive for peace time. I read that our refineries are working on sweet Nigerian oil and our own oil is sold to Asia for processing.
The link below to NY Times article, that has some explanation on rise of fuel cost.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/automobiles/18PRICE.html?ref=automobiles
toyota sucks
A4, that was an opinion. Here is the fact
http://www.jdpower.com/autos/ratings/quality-ratings-by-brand
yeah…everything that payton byrd just said.
major A+ points to payton.
@xyunya
Sorry to burst your bubble, but maybe you should keep up with current news on oil deposits. Over 40 million barrels of oil have been located at a field in Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota. The compares to the 105 million barrel field of Saudi Arabia that OPEC controls. Anwar is currently estimated at over 20 million barrels. Scientist have recently come up with new techniques for finding the size of oil fields that has shed new light on the real size of fields. The field in Montana was original though to be only 4.5 million barrels and thus went largely untapped. This new technology can set the world of the doomsdayers on their ears if the new technology consistently shows a 10:1 increase in available oil at each field tested.
Also, it is indeed true that the EPA that is the major roadblock to new refineries. Congress can indeed override the EPA, but the EPA is actually part of the Executive Branch and as such the President can issue an executive order that basically neuters the EPA when it comes to national security; and this is definitely a national security issue.
Our existing refineries are capable of processing the crude from the USA. How do you think ARCO was providing such inexpensive gas from the California fields? I happen to know that two refineries in California were doing that production.
In previous comment I said millions of barrels, that should have said billions of barrels.
@xyunya
Quoting the NY Times is equivalent to stating “I have no brain.”
toyota sucks
lexus sucks even more