Obama plans new fuel limit by 2016

[Wild Cobra]

Just more wasteful regulation.

What if the industry cant get trucks to meet the standard by 2015? What then?

What happens to constuction in this country? Will everyone who needs a truck for work be able to get a waiver? Will they have to pay for one?

Stupid, stupid Obama.

No . The likelyhood of meeting those standards during his second term (if he has two) is rather small. He will then have to reverse his own policy!

[Bender]

hopefully a GM dives ure will happen. They need to get smaller and less bloated. Maybe keep a couple companies, such as chevy.

Is there such a thing as an auto worker who is not UAW? Do foreign companies that have plants in the US (ie Nissan) use UAW workers? I thought a while back before all this happened I read that nissan refused to use uaw people.

[Wild Cobra]

hopefully a GM dives ure will happen. They need to get smaller and less bloated. Maybe keep a couple companies, such as chevy.

Is there such a thing as an auto worker who is not UAW? Do foreign companies that have plants in the US (ie Nissan) use UAW workers? I thought a while back before all this happened I read that nissan refused to use uaw people.

That's correct. Not all manufacturers are unionized.

[Bender]

their cash flow would be much better if they told uaw workers to take a hike. They'd be more compe ive in the world market.

[coyotes_geek]

hopefully a GM dives ure will happen. They need to get smaller and less bloated. Maybe keep a couple companies, such as chevy.

That's already happening. GM is going to keep Chevy, Caddy, Buick and GMC. All the other brands are going to get sold off and/or liquidated.

Is there such a thing as an auto worker who is not UAW? Do foreign companies that have plants in the US (ie Nissan) use UAW workers? I thought a while back before all this happened I read that nissan refused to use uaw people.

Yes. Most of the foreign manufacturers who have U.S. plants built them in right to work states and don't have unions. I'm pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that the number of auto manufacturing jobs created by foreign automakers in right to work states over the last 15 years is roughly equal to the number of auto manufacturing jobs lost by domestic automakers in closed shop states over that same period of time.

[Bender]

I haven't been followin the auto mess at all...

That's already happening. GM is going to keep Chevy, Caddy, Buick and GMC.

but that seems like a good plan. I know here in texas there are chevy trucks all over the place, and caddys too. Not sure about buick.... buick seems so....1950s and 1960s.

the UAW contributed mightily to the problem. Unfortunately, I doubt the domestic companies can re-locate to where they could tell uaw to @#!& off.

I hate unions and always have. maybe they were needed back in the 40s or so, but this is the 21st century, there are already tons of worker protection laws in place. Unions need to go the way of the dodo.

I remember the air traffic controller strike, where they all got fired. I laughed my ass off. Was that Reagan?

[coyotes_geek]

For some reason Buicks sell like crazy in China, so that's why they're being kept around.