Big Electric Trucks or Big Hot Sauce? Is Ford or McCormick Making the Best Investment? Which Company Can Last Another Hundred Years? Do People Actually Want Electric Cars? Can Hot Sauce Beat Ketchup?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: The star of the show was the F-150 Lightning—an electric version of the pickup that belongs to the best-selling vehicle line of any kind in the U.S. since the early nineteen-eighties. In a good year, Ford sells on average nine hundred thousand gas-powered F-series trucks, and earns about forty billion dollars annually from the line. The Lightning, together with the Mach-E, and an electric Ford Transit, its cargo van, collectively represent the hundred-and-eighteen-year-old automaker’s best and perhaps last chance to catch up with Elon Musk and Tesla, the dominant company in E.V. sales. (Tesla delivered close to a million electric vehicles worldwide in 2021; Ford dealers sold only about forty-three thousand E.V.s globally last year.) When Ford’s electric truck goes on sale this spring, the future of mobility will meet America’s favorite ride—a momentous encounter not only for Ford but for all of us, whether we drive, bike, or walk. The future of the planet, and of human life on it, may depend on how rapidly the auto industry can reduce tailpipe emissions. This article comes from the New Yorker.  The article is titled: "America's Favorite Pickup Truck Goes Electric."  The article is written by John Seabrook.  You can read the full article here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/americas-favorite-pickup-truck-goes-electric Zac and Don discuss the question, which company is making the best investment - The Ford Motor Company with it's new electric truck?  Or The McCormick Spice company and its recent purchases of popular hot sauce brands?  Both of these iconic companies have been around for a century.  Zac and Don wonder if each can last another 100 years. The following article on McCormick's purchases of hot sauce brands can be read here: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-mccormick-franks-cholula-hot-sauce-supremacy/