Really stupid headline

but some good points made:

Does America Need Manufacturing?

What I find interesting is this: 

Repatriating a high-tech manufacturing plant to the United States is not simply a matter of hiring the local talent. It requires good-old foreign know-how. “We call it ‘copy exact,’ ” Forcier said. “We bought a company in Korea that had the technology around this type of battery and had developed the manufacturing process there. We basically brought that here, copied it exactly and scaled it up.” A123 also brought a team of six Korean engineers to help transfer the technology to the U.S. and sent a team of Americans to Korea to learn. 

History repeating? I remember when the Soviet Union bought old American car body dies after WWII - and that's why most Soviet cars looked like 1950's American cars.

I also have concerns about where all those batteries are going to end up after the "electric car" turns out to be a boondoggle because no one can afford to charge one, after Osama finishes making good on his promise to make power costs "skyrocket".