Transition

Sunday November 9, 2008 - 5:24PM EDT

I've only been alive to see 4 united states presidents and only really alive to remember 3 of them. The last two presidents I certainly do not remember the level of planning or enthusiasm that seems to be associated with the 44th. Dare I say I am somewhat impressed at least with the attempt to enact detailed plans. Well I am impressed with the will but will wait to see what actually happens. Could this be the most productive first 100 days in office ever?  Well maybe in my recent memory at least. Some of the planning highlights the horrific job that the exiting president and his administration has done. Most hilariously terrible is the rules on emissions related to cars. The Bush administration fought like grim death to not enact legislation or even recommendations to force car manufacturers to improve emissions and gas mileage based on a strict time table.The reasoning was that it would hurt the manufacturers too much to force them to improve their product so fast.  Well as of today the big three US auto manufacturers are very close to bankruptcy and bleeding tons of money. A situations in part caused by reduced sales due to their reliance on SUV's and large ineffecient vehichles as the base of their profits. There were other factors too, such as bad union contracts and the collapse of credit system. But they built this problem based on their thought that they could sell SUV and get fat profits from expensive ineffecient vehichles for too long. What is even more painful to them is the fact that the Japanese car companies have overtaken them with creating more effecient cars. So the previous administration's idea that forcing manufacturers to make more effecient cars would hurt them has been completely blown to pieces. There may have been short term pain in transition but I'd think those companies would probably be slightly better off if their reveneue base hadn't dissappeared.

Funniest part about it, is that legislation or not the car companies are going to have to start making more effecient vehichles or go under. No one is going to buy ineffecient vehcicles like they did in the past.