re: #64 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Yep. The major automotive companies have agreed to Ca. strict emissions and fuel efficiency rules. tRump isn’t happy about that., mainly because it means that all the cars these companies make will meet those standard. Yes they will cost a bit more, but all new tech does. His claim that they will not be as safe is of course a lie. Ca. has some of the most stringent safety requirements for automobiles if I remember correctly.

dailykos.com

However, from the beginning, the plan had two issues. Trump’s announcement utterly ignored the law which allows California to set its own standard, and the actual auto manufacturers were less than supportive from the very beginning. By the time more details of Trump’s plan emerged last summer, auto makers had already determined that what Trump was proposing would actually cost the industry 236,000 jobs while turning the United States into a dumping ground for second-rate technology that wouldn’t meet the standards of other nations. On top of all that, Trump’s plan would actually cost consumers $460 billion in extra fuel and more rapid depreciation.