Sounds like Gulf War 2, or Vietnam    Anyone else find it interesting that American refineries cannot refine American oil ?    But Venezuelan oil works very well in our refineries.    Help me understand how this administration who literally gives zero f's about anyone except themselves, is so concerned about a country in South America. So much so that it it has no problem. Unaliving suspected drug traffickers.    But I digress. 

$39 billion in direct subsidies    https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/?major_industry_sum=motor+vehicles&order=subsidy&sort=desc&page=1  

It never crossed your mind that a Venezuelan government that is friendly to China or Russia would be more then willing to let them station Cruise Missiles or long range drones to shut down the Panama Canal in the event of a invasion of Taiwan?    Not to mention the US is the freaking top oil producer in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_extraction   Get over your stupid dog whistles 

Bullshit.   Do you have any idea how much tax dollars go to the auto industry every single year.    Never mind. We're about to invade Venezuela to get its oil to subsidize the auto industry.   The primary use of fire departments in this country is for automobile crashes, not house fires anymore.    Never mind the fact that 42,000 people a year die in automotive-related car crashes. The  of deaths and injuries from crashes costs $340 billion on 2019   Traffic Crashes Cost America Billions in 2019 | NHTSA https://share.google/ySNs1gt05lk5jEELL   Or the fact that the roads that cars drive on are not funded by gas taxes or other user fees, but are funded by general property taxes, income taxes, and sales taxes now. Less to remind you that the federal gas tax hasn't increased since the 1990s   Let's be honest about tariffs and who they really protect at the expense of buyers.    No, the auto industry is the best example of socialism for corporations. From the suppliers to the unions to the corporations themselves, they are organized to get as much socialism out of the government for themselves at the expense everyone else.    I could go on.    The the most messed up thing about United States right now is that we conflate systemic issues off as individual decisions, when the truth is the system forces people into those decisions and rewards corporations that put them in that position.

Sorry, couldn't resist...  

I had a deer hit the side of my '23 F-150 Tremor about two weeks ago. It hit the very bottom edge of the passenger side front door at full speed pushing it in about 1". I'm sure the running board took the brunt of the hit but was surprisingly undamaged. The following day I contacted my insurance company and took it to my local Ford dealer's collision center that same day. They gave me an estimate that was over $3600 to replace the damaged door with a new door and set me up with a scheduled repair date of 12/16/25.   However, because of supply issues that I assume are related to the aluminum plant fires, I got a call from the dealer a day or two later saying that Ford could not give them ANY time frame on when they could expect to receive a replacement door.    I'm still debating whether to ask if the insurance company or body shop would even consider using a used door from a wrecking yard. I also assume the cost would be much lower, especially if they could find one in the same color.   On a side note, I also asked the estimator if they would replace the entire door shell or just the outer skin. He said that they no will longer even try to replace the outer skin because when they have tried that approach, which was the common method on steel doors, they almost always break some of the aluminum tabs when they try to bend and crimp them over the inner shell. He also stated that if that happens, the shop has to cover the cost of the skin because the insurance companies won't cover something that they damaged during the repair process.   So while aluminum is lighter and more corrosion resistant, it is also much more expensive to repair or replace than steel.  

Yes, Tesla, GM and Ford all got way in front of where buyers were, now they need to get back to what customers really want (not massive BEV pickups)

Yea, thanks. I'll save Joe the trouble:   socialism noun so·cial·ism ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm    a : a system of society or of group living in which there is no private property b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

The market chose ICE vehicles over electric and steam at the turn of the last century, without government mandates to do so. By and large, the populous was uninformed about the effects of hydrocarbons in the atmosphere, as we are now. Fast forward a century and a quarter, our collective desire to generally be good stewards of the planet's resources, is creating a demand for cleaner transportation. We as a global society have trillions of dollars invested in ICE vehicle manufacture and petroleum refining. As generally good people, we'll get there, but at the market's pace, not by government decree.    There is a granite shield stretching from Manitoba, Canada through central Minnesota from volcano eruptions a billion years ago. Mastadon tracks with those of humans in New Mexico, evidence of tropical plants in ice core samples in Antarctica. Things are always changing. And if we reach the theoretical tipping point where the planet goes into runaway temperature rising, as good stewards we'll figure it out, driven by the marketplace at such a time. We just need to not get ahead of ourselves.

You need to look up the definition of socialism.