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Which countries only buy street-lighting that is designed & built in their own country?

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Which countires only buy streetlighting that's designed & built in their own country?

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Lithuania, Botswana and Yemen.
 

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thanks, if they dont build it in their own country, then how do they know what design features make it last longest...
If a batch fails, then how do they know what feature made it fail if they dont design and build it themselves.
Just wondering, because surely streetlighting is a case for a Nationalised protected Industry in any country...because its payed for by the taxpayers of that country.

So good on Botswana, Lithuania and Yemen....but i would add China And Germany to your list.
 

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Afraid you missed the sarcasm. This not an electronics question, or an engineering question; it's a marketing question.

And, further, why should street lighting be nationalized any more than the steel to build bridges or petroleum to run power plants?
 

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Seriously? "Buy local regardless of quality" instead of "buy the most reliable product"?

The administration doesn't know about this technical stuff, and the company that wins the bidding will have some long term experience with (and trust in) different suppliers. Over here, such municipal projects tend to use very high quality products, because everyone knows they need to last for the next 20 years or so.

Looking at your posts, you tend to do the cheapest possible design, barely meeting requirements. As bad as the cheapest, just more expensive. Why would anyone buy that? To protect local industry, is that your point?
 
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thanks, yes, to start the process of building up local industry, which is needed in UK as our industry is dying off.
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If the Nationalised streetlight industry was not able to design and build lamps of sufficient quality, then yes, that Nationalised industry would then need to import them until the point where it had learned to do it right……..but the importation would have to be transparent, and the cost to the Inland Revenue would be published for all to see…..ie you wouldn’t get the case as we do now, of a few middle-men ripping off large profits which ultimately the taxpayer pays….and the other result is that British (or whichever country’s) industry dies off.
In Germany, German local authorities naturally lean toward buying German…so in Germany for example, this kind of Nationalisation is not needed.
 

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In Germany, German local authorities naturally lean toward buying German…
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For many products, I wouldn't know how to buy German. What is the more German car, the Kia engineered at Kia design center Frankfurt and assembled in Slovakia, or the Volkswagen assembled in Spain?

Welcome to Europe.
 
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And, further, why should street lighting be nationalized any more than the steel to build bridges or petroleum to run power plants?
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I admit that your country (USA) does not need Nationalisation.....USA is doing very well without it.
 

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Welcome to Europe.
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Thankyou.
It is good to hear of the situations in other countries
 
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…Yes, thankyou, but please, let us try and tell that to the Greeks…Greece borrowed itself into bankruptcy because of the Euro currency…Greece would never have been able to borrow so much money if it had not joined the Euro currency. One curreny, with one interest rate, cannot possibly serve the purposes of many countries with vastly different economies....and first year economist will tell you that.
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what is this rant doing here on edaboard?
 
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what is this rant doing here on edaboard?
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Welcome to a Treez post.
 
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Welcome to a Treez post.
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Yes, after a while you can identify treez posts by just looking at new thread titles. :popcorn:
 
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