The Only Japanese Earthquake Thread

[Rmplstlskn]

Nuclear Reactor in Japan blows up...

Besides the sad effects in Japan, what does all this mean for US? The world? Our economies?

• Massive coastal flooding
• Highways and infrastructure shifted, moved or destroyed
• One of Japan's Nuclear Reactors blows up
• Other nuclear plants in danger
• Coastal shipping ports severely damaged
• Unshipped inventory in port areas destroyed or damaged
• Long-term power supply problems (less manufacturing)
• Astronomical rebuild costs & possible insurance company failures
• Manpower & resources going to rebuilding rather than export and manufacturing

I am not an expert, but I think this event may be the PUSH that sends the fragile, teetering economies of the world over the edge... (Except for those that actually MAKE THINGS, like China, where business will be booming)

How will this affect japanese auto imports (I have two Toyotas and love them)? Japanese electronics (most high-end electronics are made in Japan)? Computer components (memory plants in Japan)?

The long-term effects could be terrible for us... Makes preparedness all the more important...

Rmpl

[EchoMirage]

easy. stop buying jap. support your country, buy American, and you wont have anything to worry about.

[rubberneck]

easy. stop buying jap. support your country, buy American, and you wont have anything to worry about.

So I should by a Ford made in Canada instead of a Honda made in Ohio? Check the window stickers of cars made today. Not only will they tell you where the car was assembled but what percentage of the cars parts were made in the United States. Ford and GM are no more "American" than Toyota and Honda. By that I mean they use the same amount of American labor and products to build the car.

To the original poster this could be really bad for the global economy. Japan is the worlds third largest economy. Any significant down turn in that economy will have a ripple effect on all the others. How bad it get's is anyones guess. We won't know for sure until that have a good idea how much damage was done and what it will take to repair it. In the short term we are going to see a spike in prices for electronics and automobiles. Oddly if Toyota and Honda's Japanese operations are significantly damaged they might start pulling cars off the US assembly lines and send them back to Japan. Good for our economy bad for the US consumer.

If the world doesn't end in 2012 I think we'll all be telling our grandkids what it was like to live through these troubled times. Two wars, a middle east bent on tearing itself apart and now a massive natural disaster only two year removed from a similar catastrophe.

[500grains]

Some guys thought I was a nerd for having Israeli gas masks and nbc filters for the whole family including the kids.

[The Cat]

So I should by a Ford made in Canada instead of a Honda made in Ohio? Check the window stickers of cars made today. Not only will they tell you where the car was assembled but what percentage of the cars parts were made in the United States. Ford and GM are no more "American" than Toyota and Honda. By that I mean they use the same amount of American labor and products to build the car.

Truer words - never typed.

[tgace]

If there is a demand for a product someone will make it and make money. This could be an opportunity for US electronic manufacturers. If the government would allow it....

[Paraclete comes]

Very good idea to have a set of mopp gear or at least a mask and some nukblock iodine tabs. they last years and if you live near a nuke power plant highly recommended.

[DocMinster]

Very good idea to have a set of mopp gear or at least a mask and some nukblock iodine tabs. they last years and if you live near a nuke power plant highly recommended.

Were does a civy you aquire the aforementioned iodine tabs?

[EchoMirage]

So I should by a Ford made in Canada instead of a Honda made in Ohio? Check the window stickers of cars made today. Not only will they tell you where the car was assembled but what percentage of the cars parts were made in the United States. Ford and GM are no more "American" than Toyota and Honda. By that I mean they use the same amount of American labor and products to build the car

what you and everyone else doesnt understand is that ford is still an AMERICAN COMPANY. regardless of where its made, when you buy a ford, GM, dodge, the money goes into the AMERICAN economy. when you buy a jap car, that money does NOT go to the US. it goes overseas to honduhs main office. they guy on the assembly line gets paid regardless if you buy that car or not. and despite you thinking the jap brands are 'made in america', look underneath the car first. youll see jap writing all over the motor, trans, diffs, everything. they are ASSEMBLED in the US, of jap/overseas parts.

if everyone bought american cars in the first place, they never would have had to subsidize and outsource, and all that money would have stayed in the american economy.

[bkb0000]

what you and everyone else doesnt understand is that ford is still an AMERICAN COMPANY. regardless of where its made, when you buy a ford, GM, dodge, the money goes into the AMERICAN economy. when you buy a jap car, that money does NOT go to the US. it goes overseas to honduhs main office. they guy on the assembly line gets paid regardless if you buy that car or not. and despite you thinking the jap brands are 'made in america', look underneath the car first. youll see jap writing all over the motor, trans, diffs, everything. they are ASSEMBLED in the US, of jap/overseas parts.

if everyone bought american cars in the first place, they never would have had to subsidize and outsource, and all that money would have stayed in the american economy.

im afraid i dont buy any of this.. all of these companies are conglomerates made up of hundreds of millions of investors, and some executives with million-dollar salaries. i supposed the argument can be made that some of these investors, if they see a gain in their investment, and if they're American, might go out and buy something in America with the money they make. the same can be said for ANY publicly traded company, though- "foreign" included. but instead they'll probably just buy more shit made in china, imported by more conglomerates. and the executives spend half their money overseas.

what would be much, much, much better for America would be to simply employ Americans, thereby paying tens of thousands of Americans, who then spend all their money in America, and hopefully on things made IN America, because THEY, of all people, understand the importance of actually buying American, not just buying shit that USED to be American.

you can't "buy American" with cars anymore... so dont bother trying. the only way you can avoid making foreigners money is not NOT buy, which i've been doing for the last 12 years (yes, same truck).