Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Need New Requirments for American Auto Industry

I am personally convinced that the American motor-vehicle industry must be strengthened in part through strict Congressionally-approved or court-ordered requirements that:

---any future new automobile being sold or purchased or driven or rented anywhere in the United States of America must be in compliance with the already-stringent air-pollution emissions standards that have been set by the State Government of California, or, if applicable, any other government entity anywhere in the world (such as the government of Sweden or Great Britain or Japan, for instance) that has possibly established even stricter auto-emission standards than those of California.

----any future new automobile being sold or purchased or driven or rented in the United States must be in compliance with very stringent motor-vehicle safety standards for that category of motor vehicle.

---any future new automobile being sold or purchased or driven or rented anywhere in the United States must be in compliance with the fuel-efficiency standards for that class of motor vehicle that have already been met by any honorable motor-vehicle manufacturer anywhere in the world.

---insists on the phasing-out of two-wheel motorcycles in the United States, and that requires that the significantly safer three-wheel motorcycles or trikes account for a growing percentage of all motorcycles permitted to operate on roadways in the United States.
Those three-wheel motorcycles or trikes can help save thousands of lives of motorcyclists each year.

There is no reason in the world why the new motor-vehicles being manufactured by American automakers cannot meet the strictest of air-pollution-control standards, while also meeting the strictest of motor-vehicle standards and the most stringent fuel-efficiency standards thus far achieved anywhere in the world for that category of motor vehicle.

This environmental-protection-minded, public-safety-minded, realignment of our entire nation's auto industry is urgently needed as soon as possible. To paraphrase and revise the famous words of then-Secretary of State John Foster Dulles of the Eisenhower Administration in the 1950s, "What's good for the environment and public-safety of American citizens and American society and our entire world, is also good for General Motors."

(The original words from Secretary of State Dulles had been: "What's good for General Motors is good for our country" (approximate quote)).

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