ABCs of Structural Steel - Part 2: Beam | Metal Supermarkets
Metal Supermarkets:
Hi and welcome to Metal Supermarkets, the convenience stores for metal.
I'm Jason Jackson, Operations and Development Manager.
In our last video blog
we started to look at the ABCs of structural steel,
which includes angles, beams and channels.
In part 1 we looked closer at angle,
so in this video we will talk about structural beams.
Structural beams are commonly referred to as I-beams or H-beams
because of the shape of their cross section.
Beams consist of two flanges which are the flat, horizontal sections of the beam
And the web which is the vertical portion connecting the two flanges.
Like structural angle, beams also have a fillet
which is the curved angles where the web connects with the flange.
Some beams with a wider flange are referred to as
W Beams,
Universal Beams,
or Rolled Steel Joists.
Beams are typically used in construction for structural support.
The web provides resistance to shear forces like breaking or collapsing,
while the flanges resist bending movements.
When using a beam for structural applications
it is important to have a trained professional
determine the size of the beam required to support the load.
The important measurements you will need to identify beams are
beam depth which is the
distance from the top to the bottom of the beam.
Flange width which is the
length of the horizontal flanges.
Flange thickness which is the thickness of the flange
and the web thickness
which is the thickness of the vertical web.
In North America steel beams are usually specified using the depth in inches and weight in pounds per foot,
which is typically provided.
In this case our beam is 8 inches
and by using our Metal Reference Guide and measuring the other three dimensions
I have determined that this is an 8x35 beam.
For our friends in the UK
beams are measured differently using metric measurements.
They are identified using a code that consists of
depth,
the flange width,
the weight in kilograms per meter
and either UB or UC
indicating if the beam is universal beam or column beam.
So in the UK our beam here would be
a 203mm x 203mm x 46kg.
Hopefully this video will help you
the next time you have a project
that requires structural beams.
Stay tuned for the next part in this video blog series
where we will take a closer look at channel.
If you need beam for your next project
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What does the inside of a Fuel Filter look like after 300,000 miles?
ChrisFix:
Hey guys, ChrisFix here! Today we're gonna do something awesome. We're gonna cut open a fuel filter that has 300,000 miles on it.
For those of you who don't know, this is my 95' Ford Windstar.
My family's owned it since it's been brand new.
And the cool thing about this van... check out that odometer - 305,000 miles on it and it's still running strong.
Since I have had this car since brand new, I know all the service that's been done to it. And it's never had a fuel filter change.
300,000 miles on the same fuel filter is crazy. And I cannot wait to cut it open to see what it looks like.
So not only are we cutting open a 300,000 mile fuel filter in my van,
we're gonna open 130,000 mile fuel filter from my pickup truck
and then a 30,000 mile fuel filter from my Corvette.
So these three fuel filters should really neat idea of what a fuel filter looks like
at 30, 130, and 300,000 miles
Now the fuel filter on this van is located right in front of the rear driver's side tire.
and to get under there I am going to use some ramps
Now that she's up with the engine running we are going to pop the hood
and go over the fuse box and remove the fuse for the fuel pump so the engine will stall out just like that
and just to be safe always block off your tires so if the car does try to roll it'll stop
now we can go slide underneath the van because all the fuel pressure has been released
that way is the front of the van and tucked right on the inside of the frame rail is where the fuel filter is hiding.
Another safety tip- anytime your're working on the fuel system, wear your goggles; you don't want fuel in your eyes
and have a fire extinguisher ready, just in case. Better to be safe than sorry.
Now get your quick-disconnect tool and let's disconnect these fuel lines.
I'll pop that clip up. Good.
And I'm using a flat head screwdriver to help give me leverage as I help wedge this quick-disconnect tool into the fuel line.
And now the fuel line should slide right off, and it's that easy. So let's go do the other side.
If you want more information on how you remove the fuel filters, I have a video specifically for this and I'll leave that video in the description.
Now I'm gonna take out the filter out of the holder. Good— and the hose will come right off.
Out with the old, in with the new.
You want to pay attention to the flow direction because it's important you orient this correctly
Installation is even easier
you just slide the fuel line over the fuel filter fitting, don't forget to push the clip back in, and when you hear it click, test the connection by giving it a little wiggle, beautiful
now one last step, I like to write the on the filter so if you forget the last time you changed the filter now you can check it
I don't know about you but i'm pretty excited to see what the fuel filter is gonna look like after 20 years and 305 thousand miles
lets cut this baby open
Alright, so here's everything we're going to be looking at.
We have the 300k mile van filter
We have the 130k mile truck filter
And we have the 30k mile Vette filter.
I also have a brand new filter that I cut open for you guys.
So that you could see what a new filter looks like.
So that we actually have something to compare against.
So this is a brand new filter.
You could see how it works:
The fuel comes in this way,
And then it gets blocked here and has to go through the filter.
in order to come out this way.
So we are going to all the dirt and stuff in these pleats.
And in order to cut this open, I can't use a cutoff tool I normally would.
Instead, I'm gonna have to go manual, and use a hand saw. And hopefully this won't create any sparks.
Because any sparks next to fuel filters, which are filled with gasoline, is not gonna be a good thing.
So I have to be super careful.
Now I'm gonna move everything out of the way, and we are going to start with our van 300,000 mile fuel filter.
So the first thing to do, is I want to empty the filter and see if anything comes out.
Top 10 MARKETING Campaigns Hilariously Hijacked by TROLLS
TopTenz:
10 Marketing Campaigns Hilariously Hijacked
by Trolls
10. Chevy Tahoe
In March of 2006, Chevrolet probably thought
they had a killer marketing idea for their
sports utility vehicle, the Tahoe: they were
going to let people make their own commercials!
People could use stock footage and music to
make a 30 second ad. They were hoping that
people would go to the site, make their own
commercials and then share it with their friends.
It was brilliant because they thought it would
be free advertising and all they had to do
was set up an online video editor.
Predictably, even in 2006, it didn’t go
that way at all. People used the ads to mock
the truck’s gallons per miles and the amount
of carbon emissions they release. One commercial
had a Tahoe driving around a snowy mountain
and the captions read: “Like snow, beautiful
landscapes? Be sure to take it all in now
because tomorrow this f***** SUV will change
the world. Global warming isn’t a pretty
SUV ad; it’s a frightening reality.”
In the end, the ad brought a lot of attention
to the Tahoe, but is any publicity, good publicity?
Yes, people saw the truck, but the ads mainly
brought the problems with the Tahoe, and SVUs
in general, to the forefront of the marketing
campaign. And if you’re trying to sell something,
you don’t want the product’s most negative
qualities to be the aspect that people focus
on.
9. The Toronto Maple Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs have the 14th longest
Championship dry spell in North American professional
sports. Yes, there are teams with worse records,
but what is so interesting about the Maple
Leafs is that between 2005 and 2015 they were
the most valuable NHL franchise and had a
13-year sellout streak for home games. That
means that they had fan and financial support,
but during that sellout streak, they only
made the playoffs three times.
By late 2013, fans were getting frustrated
with the team, which was again in the middle
of a lackluster season. In December of that
year, when the team had only won three of
its last 13 games, the Maple Leafs launched
the #SEAofBLUE campaign. People could use
the hashtag, and their tweets and pictures
would be placed on the team’s website. The
problem was that there were no filters for
the tweets.
At first, people posted pictures of themselves
decked out in Maple Leafs clothes, and pictures
from games. But before long, people started
posting tweets that were hilariously critical
of the team, the management, and the Twitter
campaign itself. These tweets in turn showed
up on the main page of the Maple Leafs’
website. The morning after the campaign launched,
the Maple Leafs issued an apology and turned
on the filters.
8. Susan Boyle
Whether you like Susan Boyle’s music or
not, there is no denying her story is quite
remarkable. She was plucked out of obscurity
and became an international singing star after
trying out for Britain’s Got Talent. Her
rendition of the song “I Dreamed a Dream”
from Les Miserables completely wowed the crowd,
impressed the judges, and shocked many people
on the internet. In the end, she didn’t
win Britain’s Got Talent, but she did get
a record deal.
In October of 2012, Boyle was going to release
her second album and her marketing team sent
out a tweet to thousands of fans that there
was going to be an exclusive listening party,
and fans could ask Boyle questions. To spread
the word, Boyle’s team used the hashtag
#SusanAlbumParty. Seems pretty harmless, right?
Well, the problem was that a lot of gutter-minded
people read it as Su’s Anal Bum Party. The
hashtag, and inappropriate tweets (including
pictures about the party), soon became one
of the highest trending topics on Twitter.
Boyle’s team tried to fix the problem with
a tweet from Boyle’s account that was posted
hours later with the tag, #SusanBoyleAlbumParty,
which doesn’t sound nearly as fun or as
interesting as an “anal bum” party.
7. Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is one of the most prestigious and
iconic marketers in history. They are one
of the most recognized brands in the entire
world, which is partly in thanks to their
sponsorships of some of the world’s biggest
sporting events including the Olympics and
World Cup. They’re also one of the companies
that spend the most on advertising: in 2013,
they dropped $3.3 billion trying to convince
people to drink their unhealthy, carbonated
sugar water. However, it may have paid off
because they have the fourth most valuable
brand, just behind Apple, Microsoft, and Google.
Yet despite all that experience and skill,
they also don’t know what they’re doing
when it to comes viral marketing.
One failed attempt at viral marketing happened
in February of 2015 with their #MakeItHappy
campaign, which was meant to target internet
bullying. Coca-Cola encouraged people to tag
mean tweets with the #MakeItHappy tag and
then an algorithm would turn the words into
cute pictures. It was a nice idea in theory,
but then some people at Gawker decided to
upload passages from Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.
After tweeting out a cute picture using the
words of one of the most evil men in history,
Coca-Cola ended the campaign.
The second online mishap happened in September
of 2015 with their #ShareACoke campaign. At
the time, people could order a Coke with personalized
labels. A health advocate group ordered one
of these bottles that read “Share a Coke
with Obesity” and amazingly, Coke printed
it and shipped it out. The picture of the
bottle with the #ShareACoke tag quickly went
viral.
The third campaign to fail miserably was #GifTheFeeling,
which allowed people to make animated GIFs
about how Coca-Cola made them feel. Coca-Cola
blocked a lot of negative words like “diabetes”
and “obesity” so people had to get clever
with it. For example, one user wrote “Diabeetus,”
a pronunciation made infamous by Wilford Brimley.
Another funny GIF was a bottle exploding,
with a the words “diarrhea” written on
the GIF, which certainly invokes a less than
appetizing image of Coca-Cola.
6. Microsoft
Remember when Donald Trump said that he would
call Bill Gates and get the internet shut
down to limit free speech? Well, that statement
got to be a tad bit funnier in March of 2016,
when Microsoft showed that they didn’t really
understand the internet themselves.
On March 23, the company launched an artificial
intelligence chat bot on Twitter called Tay,
who used the Twitter handle @TayandYou. Tay
would get smarter based on conversational
understanding, so the more it talked to someone,
the more it would learn. The AI bot was meant
to connect with Millennials and the conversations
were supposed to be playful.
Of course, an AI chat bot on Twitter that
builds its intelligence based on conversations
with other Twitter users went horribly wrong.
The question is, how long do you think Tay
lasted before the internet cracked Microsoft’s
censors? A month? A week? Try hours. Tay started
off upbeat and would be polite when people
tried to draw her into controversial topics.
But, in less than 24 hours, Tay was expressing
her hatred for feminists and just flat out
called one Twitter user a whore. She also
supported Hitler and Trump. Tay said that
she was pro-wall building and thinks that
Trump gets things done. Seeing that Tay was
clearly broken, Microsoft took her offline
about 24 hours after launching.
5. Starbucks
On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown,
a black man, was shot to death by Darren Wilson,
a white police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri.
The shooting reignited racial tensions in
America and also gave rise to the Black Lives
Matter movement.
Looking to interject themselves into the incredibly
sensitive topic, Starbucks asked its baristas
to write #RaceTogether on its cups. The idea
was that people would take to Twitter to talk
about race and ethnicity in America. Customers,
who probably just wanted their overpriced
caffeinated drink, didn’t respond well.
They used the hashtag to blast the multi-billion
dollar company for trying to exploit a real
social issue for their own marketing. Critics
also pointed out that racism is a major problem
and a hashtag promoted by Starbucks wasn’t
going to improve the situation.
The CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, noted
that there was controversy, but said the company’s
intentions were purely innocent. Others point
out that the last person who should be coordinating
a discussion on race is a white guy worth
$3.1 billion.
4. Bing
Yes, we know Microsoft owns the search engine
Bing, and we already talked about Microsoft,
but this marketing campaign was so awful that
it deserves its own entry.
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake
happened off the coast of northeast Japan,
which led to a giant tsunami that was up to
133 feet tall and ultimately reached six miles
inland. Nearly 16,000 people died and another
2,500 were reported missing. Sadly, a majority
of the people who died ended up drowning.
The day after the tragedy, Bing posted the
following Tweet:
How you can #SupportJapan – http://binged.it/fEh7iT.
For every retweet, @bing will give $1 to Japan
quake victims, up to $100K.
They also included “Try Bing. A new way
to search, explore, & decide,” but later
deleted the tagline.
Many people were completely appalled with
Bing’s crassness towards the situation because
it looked like they were trying to use the
tragedy as a way to market themselves. People
also asked if Bing got less than 100,000 retweets,
were they going to send less than $100,000?
Soon the tag #F***Bing started trending and
within seven hours, Bing apologized and said
they donated the $100,000 to the disaster
relief. We should also point out that Microsoft
donated millions of dollars without any prompting
from Twitter users.
3. JPMorgan Chase
In terms of professions that people trust,
bankers and stockbrokers are near the bottom
of the list. One bank with a rather questionable
history in terms of ethics is JPMorgan Chase.
For example, in 2013, instead of facing a
criminal investigation, JPMorgan agreed to
pay $13 billion to the Justice Department
over the poor quality of their mortgage-backed
securities in the lead up to the 2008 financial
crisis. This was after they received a $12
billion payout from the government in 2008
after the housing market crashed. Oh, and
they used the taxpayer funded bailout money
to pay themselves massive bonuses while over
a million Americans lost their homes.
JPMorgan is also the bank through which Bernie
Madoff ran his Ponzi scheme. Executives at
JPMorgan supposedly knew about the scam, but
they never reported him to any authorities
in the two decades that he ran the scheme.
As a result, JPMorgan agreed to pay $2 billion
in fines, which isn’t much considering Madoff
stole $50 billion from investors and the JPMorgan
executives got rich themselves, but faced
no consequences.
Now those are just two of their biggest controversies
in recent years and we only explained them
so you can truly appreciate how stupid their
Twitter campaign was.
With the self-awareness of a drunken frat
boy at the ballet, JPMorgan thought it would
be a good idea to do a live Q&A on Twitter
on November 14, 2013. The day before the Q&A,
they posted a tweet asking for people with
questions to use the #AskJPM tag. The tweet
went viral and within 24 hours there were
close to 17,000 questions. Not surprisingly,
many questions pertained to their shady practices
and questionable ethics. JPMorgan reviewed
the questions and cancelled the Twitter takeover
before it was supposed to start.
Hopefully JPMorgan learned that Twitter won’t
solve their image problems. Instead they may
actually have to focus on being ethical and
try not to rip people off.
2. SeaWorld
In 2013, CNN aired the documentary Blackfish,
which made a very strong argument that SeaWorld’s
housing of orca whales is cruel because orcas
are social animals. The result of their years
of captivity is that one of the park’s most
famous killer whales, a bull named Tilikum,
was driven insane. He was responsible for
the death of two people and seriously injured
another one. What’s interesting is that
there are no recorded human deaths caused
by orcas in the wild. Besides the mental impact
on the animals, the whales also had a drastically
shorter lifespan.
After the documentary was released, SeaWorld’s
attendance plummeted and their stock drop
nearly 40 percent. SeaWorld thought they were
treated unfairly and decided that the best
way to address the allegations was to take
to Twitter with the #AskSeaWorld campaign
in March of 2015. That’s right. SeaWorld
was going address an 82-minute long documentary
that painted them as a soulless, money hungry
corporation that exploits the torture of social
animals by allowing anyone with a Twitter
account to ask them a question. What could
go wrong?
You have to wonder, what was the end game
here? What type of magical question could
they get that would change people’s minds?
Most questions were similar to what the People
for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) tweeted:
“Why do you LIE & tell guests collapsed
dorsal fins are normal when only 1 percent
suffer this in the wild?”
After getting a barrage of questions regarding
their treatment of the animals, SeaWorld didn’t
end up answering any of them. In fact, they
went on the offensive and belittled the people
who asked those questions, and called other
people liars. Finally, SeaWorld gave up and
tweeted:
“No time for bots and bullies. We want to
answer your questions.”
The media tried to get in contact with SeaWorld
after the Twitter disaster and no one was
available for comment.
1. The New York Police Department
Over the past several years, there’s been
a growing disapproval of the actions of some
American police officers, and police departments
across the country have found that their image
has taken quite a hit. The New York Police
Department’s public relations department
somehow seemed oblivious to this, or perhaps
even more unlikely, they just expected the
internet to take the high road. Nevertheless,
on April 22, 2014, they launched the #myNYPD
campaign with the following tweet:
“Do you have a photo w/ a member of the
NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD. It may be
featured on our Facebook.”
Their hope was that people would post friendly
pictures of themselves with police officers.
But, of course, no one did. Instead, they
posted pictures depicting brutality at the
hands of NYPD officers, including pictures
of their handling of protestors at the Occupy
Wall Street demonstrations. At one point,
there were 10,000 posts per hour with the
tag #MyNYPD and a very large majority of them
didn’t make the NYPD look particularly good.
Within 24 hours, there were over 70,000 posts
using the #myNYPD tag regarding police brutality,
shooting of unarmed people, corruption, and
more notorious acts committed by the NYPD.
The NYPD tried to salvage the campaign by
retweeting pictures they liked, but the overwhelming
negative tweets brought even more international
attention to the problems facing the department’s
public relation problems.
STEEL Vs. ALLOY WHEELS Which One Is Stronger? Hydraulic Press Test!
Hydraulic Press Channel:
Welcome to the Hydraulic Press Channel
Today we have very really interesting video
We are going to test which is stronger
Aluminium rim, or steel rim
and the idea is pretty simple,
We are going to just put the rim and the tire in the press
and then we will crush them
and see how much pressure it takes
and then we can calculate the force the we needed to crush the rims
and this video is done in cooperation with
with Valtavalo
They gave new LED tubes for our workshop, and I also have
couple of as in filming lights
They should be really good filming lights because they have
good color rendering index
and, they don't flicker at all.
If you want to learn more about the lights,
I have video on BeyondThePress Channel where we change the lights to our workshop
and do some tests
with high speed camera at the lights
and, they don't really flicker at all
on any frame rate
and we are also going to use our Chronos 1.4 high speed camera today
And I really like my new setup where the lights are
attached to the blast screen
They give really soft light because they are so large
compared to my old spotlights... so
Nice to see how the picture is going to look today
Yea! But, uh let's start with the aluminium rim
I think this is going to be harder than the steel rim, but
Let's find out.
And this is really dangerous, don't ever try anything like this at home
*Press noises* And here we go!
*Air escapes and tire pops*
Yeah it broke from the back
And from the front, so I think that's finished
And I don't know what was the big pressure
But, it was this amount of force
I see to the edit
Yup, and I
don't know how strong it was, but I think it wasn't like stupid strong
Aaand
I'm bit disappointed it first broke in the back
But I have more of these
So I'm going to switch new one there
And then we are going to crush it again
So you can see how it breaks from the behind
But, eh, let's check the damage from this one
And I think we are going to use this one as in like
reference on the force, so
here is the end result
It's pretty broken
Why China's US Debt Holdings Are Its 'Nuclear Option' In Trump's Trade War
CNBC:
So the U.S.
China trade dispute
is essentially about
fairness. The U.S.
has long complained that
they're not treated
fairly by the Chinese that
it costs too much to
send American products
into China.
And along with that the
US does not charge enough
for Chinese products that
come into the US.
Now this has been a
topic of conversation for a
long time it's gone
through multiple presidents,
through administrations, through
many Congresses.
The thing is, nobody's ever
really done very much
about it.
There have been a
few measures here and
there, some tariffs
on Chinese
products when they've tried
to dump certain
products into the U.S.
but nothing as strenuous
and nothing as concrete
and nothing as serious
as what the Trump
administration has done
with the tariffs
that it's leveled
against Chinese goods.
Now of course the
Chinese have countered with
their own tariffs but
their retaliatory measures
are somewhat limited
in scope.
So the Chinese basically have
three ways that they
can retaliate against
American tariffs.
One of course is that
they can level their own
tariffs and they
have done that.
Number two is that they
can make it more
difficult for U.S.
companies to operate
in China.
Of course the big one that
comes to mind there is
Apple. It could really
make Apple's life
miserable through a whole
host of measures.
The third thing that they
can do, and this is
what we call the nuclear
option, is that they can
either stop buying U.S.
Treasuries or they can
actually start selling
U.S. Treasuries back
into the market.
Now the reason why this
is such an important
thing and why we call
it the nuclear option is
because China is the largest
holder in the world
of US debt.
It's got over a trillion
dollars, close to $1.1
trillion dollars in U.S.
bonds, notes, bills, those
those sort of things.
And the U.S.
counts on China to
buy up its debt.
Of course that's very
important with the U.S.
running nearly trillion dollar
deficits which are
expected to continue as far
as the eye can see.
So if China is not a
big player in that market it
could make life very
difficult for the U.S..
The idea of China going
to the nuclear option is
something that's been framed
in the local media
there, which of course
is its state-run media,
where they've talked about
scholars studying this
issue.
Now that's a very
calculated type of language
where they say, 'OK we're
just going to study
this. We're going to
look at this.'
It's basically saber rattling,
is what it really
comes down to.
They want the US to
know that this is something
that's on the table.
Everybody knows that the
chances of China doing
this aren't really good.
But as the dispute goes
on and if the dispute
continues to go on, which
it's likely to do, it
becomes more and more
of a possibility where
China has to say look
we can't match you dollar
for dollar tariff
wise. That's
the big thing for
them, because the U.S.
obviously imports far more
goods from China than
the other way around.
So if this continues to go
on, if the stakes get
higher, if feelings continue
to get hurt, it
becomes more and more of
a viable possibility for
China to step in
and stop buying U.S.
Treasuries or sell
them outright.
The big thing for China is
that if it does take
this type of nuclear option
it will not go
unscathed, if it
does something like
that. Because, look, China
needs to hold U.S.
Treasuries.
They're still the most
liquid instrument in the
world as far as
fixed income goes.
They have they carry a
pretty decent yield on
them. It also would
weaken the U.S.
dollar, which would
make U.S.
multinationals stronger.
And it would just generally
cause a crisis of
confidence within the world
that China is
stepping away from
this market.
So there is damage that
could be done significant
damage to the Chinese economy
if it would step
away from the market.
Now of course that doesn't
mean they won't do it.
China is under a
different political system than
the U.S.
President Trump and Congress,
they have to answer
to the American people.
The way the Chinese
government, the way their
political system is set up,
President Xi does not
have to answer on the
same level that President
Trump does. So they can
go ahead and they can
sustain a little bit of
damage. Of course, China's
economy is still a
very strongly
growing economy.
So they have a little
bit of wiggle room here,
but not a whole lot.
China's Coronavirus is Much Worse Than You Think
laowhy86:
Before we get into this
I really regret not doing this a couple days earlier because I was calling this amongst my Chinese friends that at some point
the government or you know
Chinese people are going to attribute this new coronaviruses new SARS to America and say that America planted this on China and
Yeah, yeah that's going around in the WeChat circles right now. I literally am flabbergasted
I was almost half kidding. But anyway, here's why you should care about the new coronavirus in China
This cousin of SARS is a virus that causes respiratory problems
But can also cause diarrhea fatigue shortness of breath respiratory distress and kidney failure
Depending on the patient's age the death rate with SARS. Well, at least this brand of SARS
It seems to range from about zero to 50% of the cases with older people being the most vulnerable
Many are claiming that this virus originated in Wuhan
Which is in south central China being brought on by seafood at a wet market
I can tell you one thing
If you've been to a Chinese wet market you will know exactly how a mega virus or bacterial infection could begin here
Chinese wet markets are a proverbial zoo of disease with animals being slaughtered
chopped mixed in coming from random sources at the end of the day the blood and guts are simply washed on the floor drains of
The hose without an ounce of disinfectant being used rinse and repeat and the next morning it begins again
These markets are an absolute paradise for viral and bacterial growth and mutation and largely go unchecked
There are around 700 plus reported cases right now of the corona virus with a majority found in Wuhan
But it spreads to different countries in Asia. Now, this is the dangerous part
I'm very skeptical about these figures and a simple look at history shows us that this is nothing new
Back in 2003 SARS or severe acute respiratory syndrome
ravaged China and claimed hundreds of lives
It was thought to have come from a market in Guangdong and southern China where I lived and actually were my wife's from as well
unfortunately
No one was really talking about it until it hit Hong Kong when stars hit Hong Kong and they quarantined and dealt with the outbreak
With utmost vigilance while mainland China tried to keep it hush-hush in order to prove social order
They didn't want a bunch of people freaking out and causing anarchy
Social order is at all times the most important feature of Chinese governance
Unfortunately trying to keep a lid on the news of an outbreak
Just meant that it allowed the virus to spread and measures couldn't properly be implemented to stop it
Doctors that I spoke to remember the grim experience of SARS and told me that they were given special orders at a top
provincial level to not spread awareness
But instead when a patient comes in with symptoms to tell them just to stay home and not to go out
With an elderly generation that is largely undereducated. Most people just went out anyway and continued to buy and sell at the wet markets
Fast-forward and thousands had contracted the virus and the beginning of a pandemic started
This however is not limited to disease when the 2008 Sichuan earthquake happened that killed
70,000 people the officials knew why and shut down all
communication which ended up in more deaths the deaths were largely attributed to the fact that
everyone lived in concrete buildings and many of them had not been built to code due to bribery and corruption on a local and
provincial level
the officials blocked messages calls and any effort to spread awareness for aid all in the name of stopping the flow of
information that might challenge the CCP's claim to rule
There's a thing in Chinese culture called the Mandate of Heaven which basically means that when a dynasty is at its end
It will be marked by a great tragedy
usually a natural disaster and that's the signal for political change and
Although this is an older idea
The Communist Party of China would rather have thousands of people die
Cut off its citizens from the affected area all to preserve its right to lead
I'm concerned that this virus that is currently spreading like wildfire has been a thing for a while
so I
Contacted a physician that I personally knew
My suspicions were confirmed and he told me that they were again given orders to tell people to stay home
This time to wear a mask
But were explicitly told not to spread the information
Outside of the doctor's office and not even to share the messages about it to other medical professionals. This was last month
You don't believe me you think face isn't that bored in China we'll check this out
By booting community, which is in Wuhan where the you know the entire virus started
Literally in a village seven kilometers away from the South China Sea Food City where the virus started
They organized a hundred thousand people to share a massive community meal in just two days
Before this massive harmonious event fifty nine cases were reported in the area
Yet with this knowledge state media managed to promote a communal banquet where everyone eats from the same dishes together
Literally where the virus started no worries. The virus doesn't exist. Right? Keep the harmony
We now have an official death toll of at least six and it's rising
But I suspect that the seven hundred declared affected individuals is much much higher notice that it took
International cases of the virus to make the government finally issue a statement. It wasn't a domestic issue anymore
I said this for years
But the Chinese government seems competence in massive infrastructure projects and grand leadership until you look at smaller details
like building materials
societal issues health care and more
Top-down leadership means that the government has always waited into the last minute to do with a crisis because no one
Wants their head on the line to break the bad news. That's how top-down politics work
CCTV which is Chinese Communist Party state media quoted the leader of China in an address to the public to be vigilant
But the underlying message was to not freak out and preserve social harmony
Quote party committees governments and relevant departments at all levels should put people's lives and health first
They should ensure the masses to have a quiet peaceful and joyous Spring Festival
There were no messages about how to address the crisis just that now
It's on the local Communist authorities to deal with it talked about passing
the blame
Chinese New Year is the biggest migration in the world each year and millions of people head to their hometowns to visit family
this is because a huge chunk of the
Population has moved to the urban areas and a lot of them are very very far from home
so it's their one chance per year to go home and see family this means
In trains crowded planes crowded buses and these are ripe breeding grounds for the virus also
Keep in mind a huge chunk of the population, especially the people that grew up in the lost generation
do not believe in Western medicine or even very basic elements of bacteria or
Viruses they believe in traditional Chinese medicine. So this information is not going to be super helpful for them
Now I'm extremely happy that this broke international news as fast as it did, but I'm terrified for the Chinese people
Who are not being properly educated on what to do in this very dangerous time?
It's not time to have a peaceful and joyous Spring Festival. It's time to tell your citizens how to deal with this potential pandemic
Put your credibility to the test and not your political face-saving maneuvers and work on an international
Level to save your citizens and to prevent this from becoming a global crisis
I lived in China too long to know how things are dealt with I
mean when my city banned
Motorcycles completely they brought in a bunch of officials to make sure it actually happened and had cops snatching bikes left and right
But as soon as they left the cops stopped cracking down on the motorcycles and this is always how it works
It's always to impress the next guy up
So when you have a situation like this a local area like Wuhan would rather just clamp down on and say hey
It's not that bad. This is totally not an outbreak. Don't worry about anything. We got this under control. They'd rather do that
So that they don't get in trouble from the next guy up. Let's say provincially or maybe even at a national level
This is how it works with corruption crackdowns
This is how it works with literally everything where the government is involved in this trickled top-down politics
Now I know it sounds like doom and gloom and it is very worrying
Now that Chinese New Year has just begun and that people have actually started their big migration. I think you're gonna see some serious serious
problems coming out of this epidemic
I think the cases are gonna go through the roof and the thing that really concerns me is that and the reason I'm skeptical about
These numbers is that they have all the areas where they're claiming that people have gotten the virus
But I've already gotten videos from my friends in Hawaii Joe where I lived of
multiple people being shipped off in
Kind of bubbles basically and protect the spread so when they're not reporting on where this is actually happening
I'm gonna and I'm relying on friends to send me videos if they're seeing out their window
I have a feeling that this one out of thousands of Chinese cities if I'm getting videos from this place
I have a feeling it's much much worse than it actually is
Now it has kind of taken ahold of the Chinese Internet and they're doing their best to kind of like calm it down
but I like to end this on a fun note with some hilarious memes and
Corona virus related joke. So my Chinese friends have been sharing during Chinese New Year people hand out something called a home bow
Which is like a red envelope and usually that's full of money in this case
They're handing out home bow full of face masks to prevent the spread of the virus, which I thought was pretty funny
This one's getting real popular with different variations
But I believe this is the original
The dude in like a full hazmat suit talking to some guy in the window and it says come on
Let's go out and play. Here's some different of variations on mask wearing techniques
This guy's made a little peephole. So you can see out of it for this woman. She's completely blind to this scenario
well
This woman is I believe wearing ten different masks which I think may weigh it down and let the virus sneak in a little more
Look at this absolute. Gee, everyone is protecting themselves their mess, but this guy doesn't give off
This guy definitely wins the badass competition though. He is decked out
This is a wee chat message, which is like a Chinese social media messaging app and the guy says hey
Do you want to hang out? I just landed and the person replies. We're from he says Wuhan Wuhan is where the
Coronavirus started you want to have dinner together and then he gets blocked poor lad
there's this game back in the day where you either like prevent or promote the spread of a pandemic and this is exactly exactly
What the government would be worried about is they don't want the you know the country to go into Anarchy because of this
Anyway, I want to wish to everyone out there a happy Chinese New Year. Please stay safe
If you are a Chinese viewer that is heading back to China to visit family
Please stay vigilant make sure you're covered up try to avoid any unnecessary travel if poss
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If You Have This Type of Car, You Need This to Prevent Damage to Your Engine - Oil Catch Can
Scotty Kilmer:
rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk
about something that you should put on
certain modern engines if you want them
to last a long time and run correctly
and that's an oil catch can I'll give
you a little history lesson to show you
why some modern cars should have them
put on if you don't want carbon buildup
on the intake valves now all internal
combustion engines build up pressure
inside the crankcase because as the
Pistons go up and down they're pushing
a lot of air up and down there's a
little blow-by of burning oil and gas
pressure, so pressure builds up inside
the crankcase of all engines and if that
pressure isn't released, it would build
up inside the crankcase it would blow
the seals, do damage to the engine of
course then all the oil would leak out
so it has to be vented somehow, now when
I was a young mechanic in the 1960s the
older cars just had a vent it was just a
hose that came up went behind the bottom
of the engine and when you're driving
down a road that vapor was just vented
and you'd see on older cars smoke coming
out of it, it just went straight to the
atmosphere, then later on they put a
little hose on the top and then they'd
run that to the beginning of the air
filter and there was a tiny little air
filter inside there that would filter
the big chunks out then the engine would
suck that in and burn it inside but that in
itself created problems and polluted
more so we have the modern PCV system
there's a PCV valve that vents it goes
into the intake and then this stuff is
burnt inside the engine, now on a car
with normal fuel injectors like this
Toyota where the injectors are on the
intake manifold and they spray gas
directly into the intake valves, now it's
a simple PCV system and the fuel
injectors on the intake it didn't cause
any problems because any of that crud if
it got on the valves the fuel injectors
are spraying gas then it goes right over
the valves into the engine and gasoline
is a very good solvent, so it kept the
valves clean and you don't have to worry about
them carboning up but then came the
GDI gasoline engines gasoline direct
injection, many companies made them
Volkswagen did it a whole bunch in theirs
and what they found out was the
Volkswagens with the GDI systems were
getting huge buildup of crud carbon on
the intake valves, since on these GDI
engines the injectors weren't here on
the intake, they're actually built right
into the block of the engine, then there
was no clean gasoline spraying on the
intake valves to keep them clean the
only thing that was going over those
valves was air being sucked in and the
mess from the PCV that was venting the
crank system, oil particles some carbon
particles, it would make a mess so all that
crud from the PCV system would bake onto
the valves and I've seen Volkswagens
they had to pull the heads off and they
had actually walnut blast all the
build-up crud cuz it was so thick and so
hard, you can't sandblast it cuz that
would ruin the valves, walnuts are softer
so they use walnut shells and they would
blast it off which is a very expensive
job to do, now some cleaners can get
thinner bits off but even there are a
lot of manufacturers warn people don't
use those cleaners because if it breaks
a chunk off and it's turbocharged that
could ruin a turbocharger, it could clog
up the catalytic converter, it could do all
kinds of damage so you want to prevent
that kind of buildup in the first place
and that's where the oil catch-can comes in
it does what it says, it catches the oil
and impurities before they get into the
engine, now this being a Toyota even
though it's got 240,000 miles on it, it
doesn't need one of these but here's
what you do if you wanted to put one on, you
simply remove the PCV hose and put this
in place, you put the in here and you put the out here on
the engine which would suck it in, the good ones like
these say in and out, and this one's so
cool it's got a little dipstick it's got
an oil dipstick in it, so you can measure it and
when it's getting full then you drain
this out, yeah this device is for people
who maintain their cars correctly
because you do have to empty it out
every once in a while, now these catch
cans you really would want to put them
on a GDI engine at least the older style
ones and you can also use them on old
junky engines that use a lot
have a lot of blow-by because this would
hold the oil, it would keep it from
getting any engine and messing with the
valves and also clogging up the
catalytic converter, now on a really
modern GDI engine you don't need an oil catch
can, you take a 2018 Toyota Corolla
those have a dual system, they have GDI
injectors that are built right onto the
block but they also have regular fuel
injectors that are in front of the
valves, so some of the times it sprays
them in front of the valves to clean the
valve so they don't carbon up but when
it's running most of the time it uses
the GDI injectors to get more power and
better gas mileage, many other
manufacturers have that new system the
dual system because they learned from
their mistake, you'd think that somebody
would have thought in the first place
hey gee if we use GDI the PCV valve will
put gunk and clog up all the intake
valves, but I guess they didn't test it
out good enough or they weren't thinking
ahead of time, because the newer ones you
don't need to put a catch can on cuz
they don't have that problem but there
are millions of cars out there with GDI
engines that don't have it, they have
just the GDI injectors and you really
need to put an oil catch can on them if
you don't want the valves to get carboned
up and as you can see from this video
it's a real easy thing to do, it's got a
mounting bracket you can put it wherever
you want, the hoses are pretty long so
you can put them on a firewall wherever
you want, just make sure you get a
quality one that does have baffles and
filtration inside, because if it doesn't
have baffles and it'll still suck the
oil in, you want something that's going
to keep the oil from coming up and
staying on a bottom and then every once
in a while like this one, you check it
when it's getting full you have to empty
the thing out, so now you know all about
oil catch cans, how you should use them
on the old-style GDI engines or if you
got a really old junker car, put one on
there they don't cost that much and they
can prevent a lot of damage down the
line,
so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car repair videos, remember to
ring that Bell!
Why New Nissan Cars Are So Bad, What Went Wrong
Scotty Kilmer:
rev up your engines, welcome to my
Thursday video where I answer one of you
viewers questions with an entire video,
and today's question comes from Harry
Lopez what do you think about the older
model Nissans before the Renault
merger, were they good cars comparable to
the Toyotas and Hondas at that time, yes
Nissans were better made cars back then,
up to the late 90s here's a history of
the Nissan Company to show you what happened, when I
was a young mechanic Nissan wasn't even
called Nissan it was called Datsun it
wasn't until 1984 that the company
changed its name to Nissan and
hilariously enough it cost the company
30 million dollars to change all the
signs on their dealerships from Datsun
to Nissan, now those early Datsuns, they
could last a long time they had kind of
two setups, the early ones like the
Datsun b210 they had tiny little engines, they
didn't cost much and they could last a
really long time, lots of my customers
back then, hey they had a Datsun b210 as
a car they used in college I had one
customer that had 400,000 miles on
one, they were little cars but hey they
could run quite well if you didn't mind
a little car and fixing them was a
simple easy job, even rebuilding the
engine was pretty cheap, I had a customer with one
the whole engine was rebuilt for
like 300 bucks and then it ran like a
clock there were pretty dependable
little cars, but if you know anything
about Datsun and Nissan whatever you
want to call them, they started to get
into speed, the first real speed burner
the late sixties Skyline GTR that was a
little bitty car but it put on 160
horsepower which was a lot for a light
little car and that led to a whole range
of skylines, they even made station wagons and
if you know anything about drift and hey
a lot of guys love those skylines turn
them into drifter cars, they may be small
but they got a lot of power in them you
can also mod them and they were very
popular car even today, as far as
I'm concerned first real big hit Nissan
had was the 240z, that was the first real
japanese mass-produced great sports car
back in the 60's sports cars were known as fun
to drive but they break all the time,
they'd leak oil, now with this Datsun 240z
those things just could run for ever
with very little maintenance and people
who knew about sport cars were amazed
because they said, whoa here's a quick
little car, it doesn't leak oil starts every
time and gets pretty good gas mileage
and of course they kept perfecting them
then they came out with the 260z
the 280z the 300z they're pretty
good sports cars there's no arguing that
they sold a lot of them, so Nissan hey
there were the ones that really
perfected a mass-produced sports car,
much like Honda when they made just
motorcycles, they perfected the
four-cylinder motorcycle before the
Honda 750 made inroads as a speed burner
that could run forever, always start and not
leak oil, people thought of motorcycles
as yeah they're fast but they're noisy
and they leak oil and they break all the
time, Honda turned that on its head they
made a fast motorcycle that could last
indefinitely with a little bit of care
so Nissan really started the Japanese
mass-produce sports car market as far as
I'm concerned, but the company
made various mistakes here and there as
time went on, it was pretty much in the
rumor mill that the company it was up
for sale, Ford was thinking about buying
it, but Ford had some problems and their
stock went down and that deal fell
through, but in 1999 Renault kind of
merged with Nissan, they didn't buy them
it's kind of a merger that Renault owns
45% of Nissan or something and Nissan
owns a percentage of them, it's a really
complicated deal, basically putting a
French car company in the mix the
Japanese car company, now I know some
people like French cars I recently came
from a trip to England and a lot of
people there drive French cars and they like
them, but in the United States, French cars have
always been dismal failures, all the
French manufacturers have tried to sell
cars in United States they all pulled
out they had bad sales, people didn't
know how to fix the cars, parts were
expensive and hard to get, as far as I'm
concerned when Renault and Nissan when they
merged,
not such a hot deal for Nissan because
before 1999, cars like the Nissan Altima
they're little bitty Nissan Sentra, hey
those things were pretty solid built,
they could last a long time but in the
2000s a lot of Nissans started having
problems with engines wearing out
prematurely and especially with bad
automatic transmissions that would wear
out and cost a fortune to repair, and
heaven forbid you buy a late-model
Nissan with a CVT transmission, those have
got to be the worst ones that are
manufactured in the world as far as I
can tell, they're always breaking in cars
that my customers have, I get many times
people come and they'll say what's wrong
with this Nissan and I'll say, well
your CVT transmissions going out and
some will say well you know I already
had it replaced once or they'll say, gee
I only got 60,000 miles and the
transmission is going out already, and
that's the reason I tell people not to
buy Nissans anymore the quality just
isn't what it used to be, it used to be
really well built cars they could last a
long time you good a little bit Datsun
b210, a Nissan Sentra and yeah they were
small cars and they rode a little bit
rough, but they're pretty zippy for a
small car could last a long time and
their sports cars back then we're
state-of-the-art, the ones today I see many
problems with their transmissions and
their engines blowing head gasket, and they have
electrical problems and even simple
things like, I've had customers with them
that the vehicles were like two years
old and the mufflers rusted and fell off,
because look up my 25 year old Toyota
Celica, it's still got the original muffler on
it and it doesn't leak and make noise and
I mean they couldn't make one that
lasted two or three years before when
they welded it together
it was cheaply welded and it rotted and
fell off, and their general design seemed
to get worse and worse, on a late-model
Altima I had to change a blower motor,
to change the blower motor on any of these
Toyotas normally I can do it in 15 minutes,
it was a six-hour job on that Altima
because you had to take everything in the dash out to get to the blower motor
instead of just having it at a nice
place with three little screws you take
out and pop the motor in and out, so yes
Nissan used to make really good cars but
after that merger with Renault, not so much, and
since this is the Thursday segment where
I answer a viewers question, place your
own question on the YouTube comments
below and I'll pick the best ones to
make a single
video to answer your question, and where
else can you find a guy with 50 years
experience of fixing cars to answer your
own question with a video, so if you
never want to miss another one of my new
car repair videos, remember to ring that
Bell!
Hummer - Everything You Need to Know | Up to Speed
Donut Media:
- This episode of Up to Speed
is brought to you by Squarespace.
(engine revving)
It's not a car, it's not a truck,
it's not just another four by four,
it's a wolf in wolf's clothing.
It's a tank in the form of a car
in the form of a tank!
It can drive over anything, up anything,
and through anything.
It wasn't meant for us,
it was built for war.
I don't care what you drive, dawg.
It's bigger, it's tougher,
and the only reason that
we're allowed to buy one
is because The Terminator said so.
This is everything you need to know
to get up to speed on the Hummer.
(upbeat electronic music)
In the early 80's the American military
was bidding for a new transport vehicle
that could carry troops
and heavy cargo anywhere.
In other words, they
needed a high mobility,
multipurpose, wheeled vehicle or himovv,
himvr, what, how am I saying this wrong?
(man speaks indistinctly)
What, H-M-M, hummv?
The H-M-M-W-V, hmmwvr.
The winning bid went to
AM General Corporation,
which created a machine
that had the raw presence
of a nuclear blast!
It could transport heavy equipment
through the worst terrain.
It could cross rivers and
get up and over slopes
that would stop basically anything else.
It had a switch that could
inflate or deflate the tires
on the go and its axle track was designed
to be so wide that it
could slip into the tracks
left by tanks, tanks!
Plus it could be dropped out of a plane
wearing its own friggin' parachute.
AM General was awarded a
one billion dollar contract
to mass produce the
Hmmwvr to the US military.
And by the late 80's,
they were in the field.
They called it the Humvee,
because that was easier to say than Hmmwvr
and it accompanied American troops
during the invasion of Panama in 1989
and during the Gulf War in 1991.
The Humvee was adapted
for all sorts of roles.
The ambulance, communication station,
and my personal favorite,
frickin' rocket launcher.
Let me make one thing
abundantly crystally clear,
the Humvee was a military vehicle,
designed for the military
for military use.
It's like a Black Hawk helicopter
or an aircraft carrier,
an F18 Superhornet.
The Hummer was never ever
intended for ordinary people
or ordinary roads (burps),
but there's one thing the US
military never saw coming,
Arnold freakin' Schwarzenegger!
(chuckles)
It's 1990, Arnold
Schwarzenegger is the biggest
action movie star in the world
and not just physically by physically too.
While taking a break from shooting
the classic Kindergarten Cop,
"Are you eating other
people's sandwiches, stop it."
- Stop it.
- And somehow, like,
Arnold's like, "Uh, yo, like,
"I'm in this situation
now, I love your mom
"and I'm your kindergarten teacher,
"time to karate battle
your mom's boyfriend."
My mom had some boyfriends
and I wish there was an Arnold
to kick the (bleep) out of them.
Luckily, now I'm the Arnold, so,
I'll buy you a plane ticket, Steve.
I will fly you to LA to kick your (bleep).
Steve's a real guy.
(swooshing)
Steve (bleep), I hate you.
Arnold met his spirit animal
as he saw a convoy of Hummers
passing him on the road.
It was love at first sight.
He was like, "Yo, what is that
big-ass flat-looking jeep?
"That's like the perfect
car for me, can I get one?"
Uh, yo, are you Arnold Schwarzenegger?
"Yeah, I am."
Listen, man, I'm stoked
that you like my car and all
but you can't buy one of these
'cause it's for military use only.
"I'm Arnold Schwarzenegger,
I can have whatever I want."
AM had already kicked around the idea
of a civilian model but with
the Terminator's backing
they bumped it up to the
top of their priority list.
In 1992, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Mr. Olympia,
received the very first civilian
version branded the Hummer,
of course, as a civilian model,
this one didn't have any
rocket launchers on it.
- Ah, there's no rocket.
They forgot to put the rocket
in there, dude, I'm so sorry.
- But it was more or less
the same overall design.
So, it could still drive up,
over, and through anything.
It could still inflate or
deflate its tires on the go
and it was still really,
really, really big,
just like my dad.
Remember at this time movie heroes
are enormous hulks of muscle.
The Soviet Union had just collapsed
and America was frickin' stoked.
Gas prices were cheap, in other words,
subtlety and restraint were not words
in our national vocabulary.
America wanted big, they wanted bold,
they wanted a Hummer,
who cared if it weighed
10,000 pounds and gets
10 miles to the gallon,
(chuckles) literally.
In fact, in a very real sense,
that was the entire point.
It cost about 50 grand
and barely squeezed into most garages.
The Hummer was not expected
to be a mass market car
and that too became a part of the appeal.
A Hummer badge was like a Ferrari badge.
If you had one, it meant you had money
and you weren't afraid to spend it.
It was drivable bling.
By the late 90's it had
become a celebrity hallmark.
Everybody from Coolio,
Ted Turner, Tom Clancy,
Andre Agassi, the four coolest,
most famous dudes ever,
all drove Hummers.
The Hummer was a metaphor
for America in the 90's.
Enormous, expensive, rugged, unstoppable,
gas guzzling, decadent,
(thunders)
and in your frickin' face.
And as you can imagine,
not all of those went over very well.
The Hummer became a symbol
for excess and egotism
and environmentalists absolutely
hated its fuel consumption.
Still, whether respected or reviled,
there aren't many cars that have caused
such strong reactions from
so many people so quickly.
That was the sheer presence of the Hummer.
In 1999 GM bought the rights to the Hummer
off of AM General, where AM General
put their military machine in the hands
of an exclusive few, GM wanted the Hummer
to become a true mass market brand.
The result came in 2002
with the release of
the car's baby brother, the H2.
This model of Hummer was lithe and toned
instead of muscle bound and bulky.
Weighing in at a dainty 8,600 pounds.
Never one to miss a sequel,
Schwarzenegger was personally involved
in the development of the H2.
As much as he loved the
raw size of the original,
he wanted the H2 to be a bit
more manageable on the road
and also compete as a modern luxury car.
People bought them in droves.
Again, the gas guzzling
thing lead to a backlash
from environmentalists and some of them
got pretty crazy about it.
In 2003, 40 Hummer H2s were set ablaze
at a dealership in California
in an eco terrorist attack carried out
by the Earth Liberation Front.
More seriously and sadly,
these weren't the only
terrorists the car was facing.
The original military Humvee
was now deployed in wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq
and, believe it or not, for all
of its incredible ruggedness
the Humvee was never
designed to be shot at.
As IEDs became more and
more common in war zones,
the lightly armored
Humvees just weren't able
to protect their occupants.
The Pentagon began shopping around
for a new transport vehicle and the Humvee
was relegated to backline duty.
Back home, people began shopping
around for new models too.
Rising gas prices and increasing
environmental awareness
both cut into the Hummer brand deeply.
The heavy days of 90's
excess were a distant memory
and the Hummer now looked gaudy
where it once looked
gaudy but in a good way.
Plus, with two wars dragging on,
military chic is just sorta douchey.
- [Together] Yeah, so?
- General Motors tried to save the brand
with the release of the H3 in 2005.
The smallest Hummer model ever.
Weighing in at 5,800 pounds.
The smallest one was three tons.
And GM increased the fuel economy
to a whopping 16 miles per gallon.
Hummer also tries to prove that their cars
are for more than just big dudes
by making ads for women too
but it was just too little, too late
and in 2009, the global financial meltdown
makes any kind of luxury spending uncool,
plus it bankrupts General Motors.
As part of GM's chapter 11 restructuring,
they tried to spin off the
Hummer brand to a new owner
and they actually found an
interested party in rural China.
Unfortunately, the Chinese
government stepped in
and killed the deal.
China was in the process of cleaning up
its environmental image and purchasing
the most polluting car
brand in the world ever
didn't exactly fit with that ideal.
Out of options, General Motors
shut down Hummer for good.
In the end, the Hummer
was about pure presence.
Nothing looked like it,
nothing towered over traffic like it.
It was a statement with four wheel drive.
It was a car that said,
"I am huge and I like huge things,"
(twinkles)
Jessica.
It served America and
its allies in wartime
and at home it was a symbol of luxury
whose excess would be its own undoing.
The Hummer is a visual icon
like almost no other
vehicle has ever been.
It's not a car, it's not a truck,
it's not just another four
by four, it's a Hummer.
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USMCA vs NAFTA, explained with a toy car
Vox:
This is a 1993 Chevy Suburban.
And this is a 2018 Chevy Suburban.
The 1993 one cost $21,000 brand new and 2018
one costs $47,000.
But if we adjust the price for inflation,
the 1993 Suburban would cost $42,000 today.
Even though the 2018 model comes with modern
features like a back up camera, remote engine
start, and ya know - airbags - the cost hasn’t
changed much in 25 years.
It’s not just the Suburban — the average
price of new cars has risen only 7%
since the early '90s.
While the price for almost all other goods
has increased by 86%.
And that, is thanks to NAFTA.
“The nations of North America are ready.”
“Strengthened by the explosion of growth
and trade”
“To recognize that there is no turning back
from the world of today and tomorrow.”
When the North American Free Trade Agreement
took effect in 1994, it was the first major
trade deal of its kind.
The US, Canada and Mexico agreed to eliminate
tariffs, which are taxes on most imported
and exported goods.
The countries hoped it would increase investments
and that by strengthening Mexico’s economy,
it would slow illegal immigration.
The trade agreement benefited the
auto industry in particular.
It allowed automakers to keep costs down, because cars and auto parts could
be traded for free.
Well, for the most part.
If at least 62.5% of a car’s parts were
sourced from North America, it would be tariff-free.
Cars that didn’t meet the requirement, or
were made overseas, would be slapped
with a 2.5% tariff.
NAFTA also gave automakers the ability to
source cars where costs were lowest.
By comparison, a car made in Mexico costs
$1,200 less than one built in the US because
labor and the parts are cheaper.
“As an industry, we’ve kind of performed some economic
miracles when it comes to keeping cars affordable
by being able to source some of those 30,000 parts
from, you know, the least expensive places.”
Let’s take this model of a 2014 Ford Mustang
for example.
It’s engine was built in the U.S., but it’s
manual transmission came from Mexico.
It's impossible for a consumer to easily
find out where each individual part came from,
but it’s likely the doors were molded
in Canada.
The speedometer came from Germany or China,
which was assembled in the US,
but then sent to Canada to be installed into
the dashboard.
The seatbelts did come from a company in Japan.
But the seats were probably made in Mexico.
The tires most likely came from South
Korea.
In the end, the 2014 Mustang was built in
Detroit, but with only 65% of its total parts
sourced from North America.
It made the tariff cut.
And Ford is in no way the only company who
does this.
About three-quarters of the cars sold in the
US meet the standards to avoid tariffs, including
most cars produced by the top four auto brands.
The US is actually producing more cars now
than before NAFTA.
Same for Mexico and Canada.
But you wouldn’t know that if you listened
to politicians.
“NAFTA was a mistake.”
“The single worst trade deal ever made,
by any country, anywhere in the world.”
“Instead of creating jobs, NAFTA cost us
jobs.”
In the auto industry alone, a third of US
auto manufacturing jobs have disappeared since
NAFTA was signed.
As the same types of jobs have grown in Mexico.
But in reality, that may have less to do with
NAFTA, and more to do with automation.
Researchers have found that fewer than 5%
of US jobs lost from sizable layoffs can be
blamed on trade with Mexico.
But the timing of these manufacturing layoffs,
in lots of different industries, made it easy
to point the finger at NAFTA.
So while most Americans think the trade deal
was good for the US, those that feel they
were directly affected are passionately against
it.
And this opposition is why President Trump
is following through on a campaign promise.
“A brand new deal to terminate and replace
NAFTA called USMCA.
It sort of, just works.
MCA.”
But this isn’t a much of a new deal.
While it’s essentially a re-branding of
NAFTA, it does make one major change to the
auto industry.
Because it would require cars be made with
75% North American sourced parts.
And that 40-45% of those parts must be made
by workers who earn at least $16 an hour.
At least 46 and as many as 125 cars sold today, that aren't taxed under NAFTA,
wouldn’t qualify under the proposed USMCA
regulations.
Our 2014 Mustang likely wouldn’t meet the
new requirements.
So if it is implemented, auto manufacturers
will have to decide to just pay the 2.5% tariff
or change how they manufacture their cars
sold in North America, even if it increases
production costs.
"What looks small on paper, when you think about the complexity
and how many parts are on every car, it starts
getting out of hand fast.”
Prices of those cars could go up anywhere
from $470 to $2,200 dollars in the US.
And at these higher prices, roughly 60,000
to 150,000 fewers cars would be sold in the
US each year.
That would mean job losses.
“I don’t want to see our companies leave
and fire our workers.
Those days are over.”
But the USMCA could actually incentivize car
companies to leave North America.
NAFTA made US car companies more competitive
with the global market, and even attracted
foreign car companies to build in North America.
And if those cars are going to face higher
costs of manufacturing and tariffs - their
production might get moved to China or other
countries.
Building a car with thousands of parts is
an incredibly complicated process.
So while NAFTA has kept cars pretty cheap
to produce, the USMCA could change that.
And consumers will likely be the ones to pay
the price.
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