Comments on: US Presidential candidate John Edwards announces energy program http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2007/08/21/us-presidential-candidate-john-edwards-announces-energy-program/ The world's most widely-read biofuels daily Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:30:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Gismo http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2007/08/21/us-presidential-candidate-john-edwards-announces-energy-program/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Gismo Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:22:19 +0000 http://biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2007/08/21/us-presidential-candidate-john-edwards-announces-energy-program/#comment-12 Everyone is for better fuel efficiency, but I think Edwards either glosses over or doesn’t realize what kind of impact a drastic increase would have on the American working man. If Washington gets it way and standards are rapidly increased, then the automakers could be forced to cancel a line of trucks. This could have lasting and detrimental affect of many workers. I do some work with AAM, and we’ve seen this happen. There are only 13 million American manufacturing jobs today, down from 18 million in the 70s. Everyone is for better fuel efficiency, but I think Edwards either glosses over or doesn’t realize what kind of impact a drastic increase would have on the American working man. If Washington gets it way and standards are rapidly increased, then the automakers could be forced to cancel a line of trucks. This could have lasting and detrimental affect of many workers. I do some work with AAM, and we’ve seen this happen. There are only 13 million American manufacturing jobs today, down from 18 million in the 70s.

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