Rat
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I just got criticized by a "friend" for being unpatriotic by buying Japanese, i.e. the Leaf. (He drives a Mercedes.. a little irony there). I see it the other way around: I'm buying American fuel, more specifically electric power generated here with American fuel (natural gas for those of us in California with a healthy dose of hydroelectric and maybe some solar or wind.) Gasoline buyers pay Saudis and Iranians and Hugo Chavez, among others. Also Nissan will be building the Leaf in Tennessee if I remember right, although I guess these first ones are coming from Oppama. Does anyone know the current status of that Smyrna plant?