Trump, Easing Emissions Rule, Vows to Expand Auto Jobs

[DonViejo]

Source: New York Times



By BILL VLASICMARCH 15, 2017

YPSILANTI, Mich. — President Trump came to the heart of the auto industry on Wednesday with a manifesto for American manufacturing: to remove the shackles of regulation and restore an age of industrial glory.

Granting the automakers their top wish, Mr. Trump halted an initiative by the Obama administration to impose stringent fuel-economy standards by 2025 — rules meant to cut carbon emissions and meet international commitments to address climate change.

Instead, Mr. Trump vowed to keep cutting regulations as a means to accelerate economic growth and add new jobs.

“The assault on the American auto industry is over,” he declared.

The move to reopen the government’s review of the standards will allow automakers to argue for less stringent — and less costly — mileage standards than the target of 54.5 miles per gallon set in 2012 by President Barack Obama.


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[woodsprite]

1. We'll have to send the autos overseas to sell them

since nobody in the US will have any money after the job losses from the budget cuts and paying their increased taxes and paying for overpriced healthcare.

[karynnj]

10. Remember the 1980s -if our cars are big gas guzzlers, we will sell fewer of them - here and overseas

I may be off on the years, but anyone old enough to remember that time will remember that the US was killed by Honda and Toyota.

I agree that the shock cutbacks in the government budget will greatly impact the economy - even if the budget was net zero change from past budgets. It is so radical that it would take a very sophisticated model to figure out what the impacts are. While it is clear that economically devastated areas will lose welfare type payments, it would also impact high level scientific research jobs. It is not clear that universities, non profits and private industry (ie drug companies hiring medical researchers) can expand to hire these talented people. What is obvious is that if someone is poor and needs government help - it will not be there. This will hurt a lot of Trump voters, who will then be convinced that Obama did this.

It is also not clear what the extra money to the military would actually be allocated for. Building the wall could initially be both buying land - that owners in many cases do not want to sell, but would be forced to - and for materials and construction. The awful thing is that this huge amount of money creates NOTHING of value and actually may take away value.

I think it is unlikely that the budget will pass as is -- there may not be a single state that will not see many ways that they are harmed. It is almost like expecting that if you threw the entire economy into the air that it would fall back into a better pattern. There seems to be no real planning here -- which is likely as they want to fire the very type of people who could actually model the impacts of what they are asking.

[Historic NY]

2. So how will he expand the auto jobs?????

Rolling back mileage standards will never get us to being independent on foreign oil, unless that's this administrations goal.

Auto companies are increasingly relying on automation, I don't think Trump knows a hill of beans about automobiles.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Will cost export jobs: low mpg cars uncompetitive around world. Trump Slump coming. . . . nt

[madokie]

8. I doubt he's driven a car

[MurrayDelph]

12. Exxon has sunk a lot of money

on Russian drilling rights.

If we use less oil, they can get their money back.

[Friend or Foe]

3. By 2030

We'll be travelling in driverless electric foreign made vehicles because of Dear Leader's shortsightednes

[SCVDem]

4. Comrade Dump

Needs to look at Americas cars in the 70s.
I doubt he got stuck in traffic behind a dirty running pick up spewing noxious exhaust.

Society does not advance going backwards!

What's next, whaling ships?

[packman]

5. Just reaffirms he's in the pocket of fossil fuel companies

Oh, how I yearn for those days of 8 cylinder leaded gas monster cars

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[Demsrule86]

6. Emission standards have nothing to do with auto jobs...Trump is liar as always.

Hey Trump...you will not fool the rust belt again.

[nikibatts]

9. So how doesn't easing emission rules result in more and not less jobs?

I want to buy the car that emits the LEAST amount of pollution. So once again, we will have purchase a foreign made car if we want that because they are gearing up their emission standards. Why does less emission need to be more costly? It's like "salt-free" costs more than "add-salt" foods.

[world wide wally]

11. Easin regulations is supposed to increase demand?

Bullshit

No wonder he keeps going bankrupt.

[SCVDem]

13. America is GREEN!

(Don't believe me? Look around tomorrow!)

We have been growing our children to be green. They realize that this will be their world soon enough and tRump is fucking that up.
I doubt they will allow this U turn. The EPA is necessary but they did not sound the alarm on Flint. A scientist did. A citizen who deserves federal funding once his paper is submitted.

America is green and tRump is Orange.

Resist!