wilber1 wrote:
Yes, they do it because the tariff gives American manufactured vehicles a price advantage over imports giving the manufacture higher margins. There is a reason the US industry is ditching cars for trucks and SUV's and the Chicken Tax gives them a 25% incentive to do so. Problem is, the rest of the world will move on to electrics and other technologies and North America will be left behind.
This is false, they are ditching cars due to CAFE regulations(like the threads topic) and lower demand. This was stated by multiple manufactures right after the NHTSA stated that they will be increasing the fines for not meeting CAFE.
What you think is happening and what is factually happening seem to be two different things here. Let the facts change your beliefs, not your beliefs change the facts.
The US will be left out? You do know Tesla's and many other EV's are made in the US were we have been bank rolling their development for the past several years through tax subsidies right?
If the chicken tax "protected" the big three from foreign competition, then why are there so many foreign made SUV's on the market? They are apart of the chicken tax too, but it has not stopped just about every manufacturer from making one. Maybe it has more to do with the manufacturers ability to meet the demands of their buyers rather than the chicken like I have been saying?
