[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5513-5514]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            BMW PROVIDING ECONOMIC SUCCESS IN SOUTH CAROLINA

  (Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, there are plenty of 
challenging news stories about the economy, and we in upstate South 
Carolina have had some of those experiences ourselves. It is worth 
celebrating some of the successes.

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  On March 10, BMW announced an additional $750 million expenditure at 
their Spartanburg, South Carolina, plant, bringing their total 
investment to $4.2 billion. They will add 500 employees to the 6,300 
already there and 1,500 employee jobs will be added among the 
suppliers. Those suppliers, by the way, have invested $2.1 billion in 
South Carolina and have 12,000 employees.
  It is very exciting to have this kind of news. It is also exciting to 
see the technology that BMW plans to employ in Spartanburg. They are 
going to bring clean diesel for the first time to the United States. It 
is going to be in the brand new X-6, all of which will be made in 
Spartanburg, South Carolina.
  That car will also get 30 miles per gallon. Frank-Peter Arndt, their 
board member, explained that even at 125 miles an hour on the autobahn, 
the X-6 with the deep clean diesel will get 30 miles per gallon. It is 
a wonderful success worth celebrating.

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