Posted on July 11 at 12:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I believe TN was used from the start to get Alabama to pay top dollar for the VW plant. They're known to overpay for plants, and have been rumored to offer $1billion for VW. So is that responsible? Meantime, it's a bit ironic that VW, which prides itself on being green stewards of the environment, will choose to contribute to sprawl by locating a plant 20 miles from the nearest big city. If they had chosen Chattanooga, an emerging green city, they would have shown how true they are to their word by developing on a reclaimed brownfield. So I guess I'll be shopping for that Acura or BMW instead of a new VW after all.

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