CP Future Plans dependent on Auto Industry Bail Out?

Then why are you getting so defensive over it, Ben?

It's not a negative stereotype if it's true. :-D

Yeah, I mean, I like to steal TV's just as much as the next black guy. ;)

And I like to drink as much as any other Polish/Irish Catholic.

Oh wait.

Sorry, my fault, it stops being a stereotype when there's a gene for it.

I am mostly German so obviously Adolf is my leader, and I engineer great shat.

Perhaps the price of steel, which has plemmeted to nearly half the cost over the past 6 months (down to about 550 a ton from over 1000) will impact future plans at Cedar Point, etc.

Of course, CP has plans made 2-3 years in advance, so now would be the time to "buy".

I know the people who bout the Skyscraper from Geauga Lake is not going to gain anything from it! It will cost more to take it down then the metal it is built with! I hope it doesn't effect CP's future coaster plans in the years to come!

How could the current low cost of steel negatively affect CP's future plans?

dsloban said:I know the people who bout the Skyscraper from Geauga Lake

Just so there is no confusion, its a Skycoaster.

Unless he is, in fact, talking about the tall pointy thing made by Intamin near SR 43.

I think that's what he was referring to. :)

When the airlines went to the goverment they were told to sink or swim. How are they still afloat?
To me the unions are nothing but a paid for mafia. $60.00+/hour to stand on an assembly line is outrageous, 95% pay when you're laid off is outrageous also.

Hondas and Toyotas cost so much money because they are quality.
American made cars cost so much money because of the costs to make the cars. It cracks me up with the big 3 have the nerve to compare their cars to Hondas and Toyotas.

Honda in Ohio employs MANY Ohioians-amazing to me how they manage to survive without the UAW (sarcasm)

I don't think CFs plans revolves around the auto industy bailout persay, the economy as a hole sucks now

As for stereotyping:
I own a Tacoma 4x4 SR5. It is not lifted, I do not have a huge exhaust pipe, I do not have the fake sacks hanging off the trailer hitch (as funny as those things are) I do not drive like a maniac in the snow or otherwise. The ONLY time I drive like a maniac is when Im mudding or 4 wheeling, in controlled areas. I never in my dreams would I even consider trying to prove I was faster than any car out there. My truck is built for power not speed. It cant go fast but my truck CAN pull my trailer fully loaded no problem.

I am a cowgirl, not a hillbilly and not a redneck :)

Jo

^I wasn't trying to stereotype people who drive SUV's as rednecks. Just stating what I have seen in Michigan is that many drivers in SUVs will drive at unsafe speeds in the snow because they have traction which gives them a false sense they can stop quicker as well. Spending nearly 7 hours a day driving is what I base my observations on. The majority of people driving these SUV's are far from what one would consider rednecks. To compare this to being racist as someone else did is not on point. Just as I have seen so many people on sport bikes riding at warp 5. Do they all do it? No. But you don't buy a sportbike so you can ride it slow.

No one is a redneck north of the Mason Dixon line. The redneck is a purely Southern creature.

In the North we have hicks, they are very similar to the redneck, but they are much less likely to own a confederate flag and they have a different accent.

LuvRaptor said:

I am a cowgirl, not a hillbilly and not a redneck :)

haha that's why we love you Jo! :)