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A week after he moved into the White House, Donald Trump pulled in the heads of the nation’s auto manufacturers to talk with Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon. At that meeting, Trump told them he was going to do them a “favor” by rolling back the standards for vehicle mileage and emissions. A year later, Donald Trump officially announced he was freezing standards at the 2020 level and would rollback improvements initiated under President Obama. It was a change that became one of Trump’s big bragging points, accompanied by claims that it would create thousands of new automotive jobs.
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.
That set the stage for last month, when California announced a stunning deal with four major automakers that pretty much made Trump’s still incomplete plan dead on arrival.
Trump thought he 'won' by rolling back auto standards ... until CA and the automakers struck back
What's going to happen, is we're going to roll back Trump, and the last 30 years worth of Republican dumbass failure. I don't think they are going to be ready for what's coming. It's not something the brain dead right has had to deal with.
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.
That set the stage for last month, when California announced a stunning deal with four major automakers that pretty much made Trump’s still incomplete plan dead on arrival.
Trump thought he 'won' by rolling back auto standards ... until CA and the automakers struck back
What's going to happen, is we're going to roll back Trump, and the last 30 years worth of Republican dumbass failure. I don't think they are going to be ready for what's coming. It's not something the brain dead right has had to deal with.