The remnants of what was once the great American automobile industry are the result of the federal government’s experts redesigning our domestic vehicles. By their actions, domestic automobile manufacturers lost market share to foreign manufacturers in 1975. General Motors, the world’s largest auto company, declared bankruptcy in 2009, the fourth-largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, which was managed and controlled by the U.S. government. A new entity was formed with the backing of the United States Treasury to acquire needed assets for a new company and its initial public offering.
A similar government-controlled bankruptcy was simultaneously performed in 2009 at Chrysler Corporation, with Ford Motor Company being the lone survivor among America’s ‘Big Three’ automobile companies severely damaged by the federal government’s auto design regulators. A weakened Chrysler was later merged with Fiat of Italy and Peugeot of France to create Stellantis in 2022 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In 1975, the first federal redesign of American automobiles was assigned to the traffic engineers at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA); however, they did not rely on their safety expertise, they created regulations to re-engineer automobile performance with their new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. Fifty years later, automobiles designed to meet these ever-restrictive mileage standards universally looked alike in mandated ‘ugliness’, like a committee-designed camel?
However, the NHTSA experts saw what they had made, and it was very Good, as stated in the Genesis creation story; however, thirty-four years later, experts from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) disagreed. The EPA convinced the Supreme Court in 2007 that NHTSA’s automobile design ‘may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare’. Internal combustion engine vehicles of all types would no longer be allowed, making EPA mileage regulations obsolete.
Not satisfied with its automobile-camel handiwork and with the Supreme Court’s blessing, the government took one last shot at re-designing America’s automobile industry into oblivion in 2022 by forcing the elimination of all but EV vehicles. That year, the Biden Administration mandated the elimination of all fossil-fueled vehicles on the following schedule:
- 100 percent light-duty vehicle acquisitions by 2027 – only new EV pick-up trucks legally sold
- 100 percent net-zero-emission vehicle acquisitions by 2035 – only new EV vehicles legally sold
The new GM company, Ford, as well as foreign brands, scrambled to rush EV models into design and production and phase out all old models within 13 years. The destruction of the American automobile industry, which was once dominant, would then be complete, and the Chinese EV manufacturers and Tesla EV would be the only survivors in the American automobile market.
Justifying their action on two faulty premises. With the anticipated worldwide oil shortages and the claims that continued use of fossil fuels is destroying the planet, government regulators were the de facto vehicle designers for the last fifty years, without market inputs from American car buyers. Their design criteria added thousands of dollars to the cost of each unit sold, often for cars the public did not like, while weakening U.S. manufacturers financially and all but eliminating them from global markets.
Destroying American auto manufacturers was so much fun that the regulators decided to destabilize the electric power generation industry with unproven power combinations whose output is subject to the vagaries of nature. On the demand side, government ‘experts’ mandated the loading of our entire new electric ground transportation system onto our existing electrical grids that were already overloaded.
Naturally, either to save the planet or to destabilize our electrical power generation system, before the public became aroused by the increasing number of blackouts, this program also had to be implemented at an accelerated pace. It was to be fully implemented with Biden’s 2022 Industrial Policy Plan for America, all within eight years!
- 100 percent pollution-free electricity by 2030 – only wind and solar electrical generation is legal
When the Trump Administration recently ended these assaults on our transportation and electrical energy systems that are vital to our complex, modern civilization, the question that remained unanswered was, “Were these so-called experts, and the politicians behind them, so short-sighted, incompetent, or stupid, or were they maliciously trying to destroy the United States of America?”
It’s a hard call!
TW3
August 14, 2025
John Whitmore Jenkins
