Auto Lobby Shocked, Shocked By CAFE Shitstorm; Not One OEM Has Voiced Support
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The White House held a call with automakers in February to urge them to publicly support the rollback. But since the call, not one automaker has issued such a statement of support (Greenwire, March 8). So how did things get to this point?
One lobbyist suggested that political appointees at the Department of Transportation genuinely think they're helping the automakers. Chief among them is Deputy Secretary of Transportation Jeffrey Rosen, who is said to be driving the rollback (Greenwire, Feb. 20).
"In a way, the Trump administration thinks that they're doing us a favor," that person said. "They tell us that if left to our own devices, we would want California to not have the authority over regulating greenhouse gas, that we would want the standard to be flat, that we would want some of the things that they're proposing. "What they're not taking into consideration is that this is a very complicated situation. And to try to easily solve it only ends up throwing this thing into disarray and into the court system."
Another lobbyist pointed to miscommunication between the White House and California. "It does seem like there was a lot of failure to communicate," that person said. "It doesn't seem like [the negotiations between the White House and California] ever really became substantive or that responses were given when ideas were thrown out, maybe on either side."
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