Dave wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:19:56 -0800, "Capt. JG" said:

You didn't Google far enough, Jon. Add "two fleet rule" to your search
terms
and repeat your search, and then you might be able to begin to answer my
question. Or at least perhaps fool somebody into thinking you have a clue.

I stand by my answer.

Bzzzzzt. Wrong. You can lead a horse to water.....

The answer is that unless the cars Ford sells have at least 75% domestic
content, Ford can't count those cars against its separate U.S. fleet CAFE
requirements. This is the result of a rule the Congress critters enacted at
the behest of the UAW, designed to insure that domestic manufacturers
couldn't meet their fuel economy requirements by selling cars produced by
more efficient or less expensive labor offshore.The effect is that they have
to produce and sell enough small cars built with U.S. labor to offset the
low mileage larger vehicles they produce here, even if they have to sell
those domestically produced small cars at a loss. It's a UAW job protection
boondoggle.

What hogwash; it's the UAW's fault that Ford can't engineer a vehicle to
get a decent milage? Honda, Kia, Subaru, Mazda, Nissan, to name just a
few have no problem?

How many of those engineers are members of the UAW?

Dave, you clearly feel that it would be better for us all if we still
had 12 year olds working six and half days a week, eighty hours for
barely enough compensation to pay for their own food....

Martin