Car parts manufacturers are feeling the pinch more than ever during this recession - but the american government are looking to assist those car parts makers who are looking to innovate for clean energy solutions.
As John O Dell points out in his excellent blog entry of June 18th - "If GM, Ford and Chrysler combined are making 5- to 6-million fewer vehicles than in their heydays, that's 20- to 24-million fewer tires and steel and alloy wheels; 10- to 12-million fewer headlamp assemblies, and on and on."
The response to this problem in America has been the sponsoring of a bill to provide a revolving $30 billion federal loan fund which will help car parts suppliers and other small to medium sized businesses become parts suppliers for clean energy solutions for cars. As Senator Sherrod Brown (Ohio) pointed out - "As Congress debates a strategy on climate change, we need a strategy for the manufacturing sector. A clean energy economy means jobs for communities."
It remains to be seen if the UK government will offer a similar deal to car parts suppliers in the UK. As has been detailed in this blog, a number of UK car parts manufacturers have been suffering as a result of this recession, and as yet have been given little or no assistance when it comes to innovation for clean energy solutions. Maybe the UK needs a manufacturing sector less than the USA does ? As O'Dell points out - "the U.S. needs a healthy manufacturing industry - countries that can't make their own basic goods are countries whose economies exist at the sufferance of others. Besides, we can't all be consultants or burger flippers"...
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