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Automotive industry
The automotive industry designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells the world's motor vehicles. In 2009, more than 60 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide. Due to these sales, the automotive industry is the most important economic sector by revenues.
In 2007, a total of 79.9 million new automobiles were sold worldwide: 22.9 million in Europe, 21.4 million in Asia-Pacific, 19.4 million in the United States and Canada, 4.4 million in Latin America, 2.4 million in the Middle East and 1.4 million in Africa. The markets in North America and Japan were stagnant, while those in South America and other parts of Asia grew strongly. Of the major markets, China, Russia, Brazil and India saw the most rapid growth, and China became both the largest automobile producer and market in the world after experiencing massive growth in 2009. In the first 5 months of 2010, the total sales of automobile were 7.61 millions in China (4.62 millions in the US), and the total sales were expected to be around 17 millions (13.65 millions in 2009) for the year of 2010, nearly twice as much as the United States.
About 250 million vehicles are in use in the United States. Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The numbers are increasing rapidly, especially in China. In the opinion of some, urban transport systems based around the car have proved unsustainable, consuming excessive energy, affecting the health of populations, and delivering a declining level of service despite increasing investments. Many of these negative impacts fall disproportionately on those social groups who are also least likely to own and drive cars. The sustainable transport movement focuses on solutions to these problems.
In 2008, with rapidly rising oil prices, industries such as the automotive industry, are experiencing a combination of pricing pressures from raw material costs and changes in consumer buying habits. The industry is also facing increasing external competition from the public transport sector, as consumers re-evaluate their private vehicle usage. Roughly half of the US's fifty-one light vehicle plants are projected to permanently close in the coming years, with the loss of another 200,000 jobs in the sector, on top of the 560,000 jobs lost this decade.
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House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer
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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/hoyer-pledges-new-...
February 27, 2012, 5:15 pm
Hoyer Pledges New Push on Deficit
By JONATHAN WEISMAN
The House’s second-ranking Democrat on Monday said that a bipartisan group of lawmakers from both sides of the Capitol was preparing to begin yet another effort to reach a “grand bargain” on deficit reduction – and that the fruits of negotiations could emerge within weeks.
Speaking to the centrist group Third Way, Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the Democratic whip, sought to bury the widely held belief that any deal on taxes and deficits would have to wait until after the November election.
“Contrary to what some believe, we cannot afford to set this work aside,” Mr. Hoyer said, according to the prepared text of his speech. “I’m here to give urgency to the pursuit now of an agreement designed to achieve fiscal sustainability over the long term,”
Congressional aides confirmed that the so-called Gang of Six in the Senate – now up to eight – has reconvened and is trying to move a bipartisan deficit reduction plan from a broad framework to detailed legislative language. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majority leader, has told the group he will not move forward until he sees real language and real momentum.
But Mr. Hoyer’s promises will meet a skeptical Washington after so many failed efforts, including President Obama’s deficit reduction commission, headed by Erskine B. Bowles and Alan K. Simpson; direct talks between the president and Speaker John A. Boehner; separate negotiations between Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the House majority leader, Eric Cantor; and finally the so-called “supercommittee” formed in the wake of last year’s near-default on the federal debt.
An aide involved in the talks said external events could thrust the issue back into the spotlight well ahead of the November election.
A flare-up of the debt crisis in Europe or a resolution of that crisis could turn bond traders’ attention to the United States deficit. The federal government could approach the statutory limit on borrowing sooner than expected. Pressure could grow to stop more than trillion in automatic, across-the-board cuts to defense and non-defense programs, known as “sequester,” or to extend President George W. Bush’s tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 on Jan. 1. Or the White House could shift its attention back to deal-making ahead of Election Day.
“The conventional wisdom in Washington is that our window for reaching a solution is after the election, during a lame-duck session,” Mr. Hoyer said. “By then, we’ll know the shape of the 113th Congress, feel the pressure of the looming sequester, and once again confront the expiration of the ’01 and ’03 tax cuts. That’s where people – including many in this room – see a leverage point for making progress. But the action necessary to reaching a solution requires bipartisan support and a sharing of responsibility for the tough decisions that must be made.”
Mr. Hoyer said quiet work on a deal was ongoing and a legislative package should be ready before the House Republicans take up their own budget blueprint at the end of March.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer
Image by Third Way
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/hoyer-pledges-new-...
February 27, 2012, 5:15 pm
Hoyer Pledges New Push on Deficit
By JONATHAN WEISMAN
The House’s second-ranking Democrat on Monday said that a bipartisan group of lawmakers from both sides of the Capitol was preparing to begin yet another effort to reach a “grand bargain” on deficit reduction – and that the fruits of negotiations could emerge within weeks.
Speaking to the centrist group Third Way, Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the Democratic whip, sought to bury the widely held belief that any deal on taxes and deficits would have to wait until after the November election.
“Contrary to what some believe, we cannot afford to set this work aside,” Mr. Hoyer said, according to the prepared text of his speech. “I’m here to give urgency to the pursuit now of an agreement designed to achieve fiscal sustainability over the long term,”
Congressional aides confirmed that the so-called Gang of Six in the Senate – now up to eight – has reconvened and is trying to move a bipartisan deficit reduction plan from a broad framework to detailed legislative language. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majority leader, has told the group he will not move forward until he sees real language and real momentum.
But Mr. Hoyer’s promises will meet a skeptical Washington after so many failed efforts, including President Obama’s deficit reduction commission, headed by Erskine B. Bowles and Alan K. Simpson; direct talks between the president and Speaker John A. Boehner; separate negotiations between Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the House majority leader, Eric Cantor; and finally the so-called “supercommittee” formed in the wake of last year’s near-default on the federal debt.
An aide involved in the talks said external events could thrust the issue back into the spotlight well ahead of the November election.
A flare-up of the debt crisis in Europe or a resolution of that crisis could turn bond traders’ attention to the United States deficit. The federal government could approach the statutory limit on borrowing sooner than expected. Pressure could grow to stop more than trillion in automatic, across-the-board cuts to defense and non-defense programs, known as “sequester,” or to extend President George W. Bush’s tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 on Jan. 1. Or the White House could shift its attention back to deal-making ahead of Election Day.
“The conventional wisdom in Washington is that our window for reaching a solution is after the election, during a lame-duck session,” Mr. Hoyer said. “By then, we’ll know the shape of the 113th Congress, feel the pressure of the looming sequester, and once again confront the expiration of the ’01 and ’03 tax cuts. That’s where people – including many in this room – see a leverage point for making progress. But the action necessary to reaching a solution requires bipartisan support and a sharing of responsibility for the tough decisions that must be made.”
Mr. Hoyer said quiet work on a deal was ongoing and a legislative package should be ready before the House Republicans take up their own budget blueprint at the end of March.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer
Image by Third Way
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/hoyer-pledges-new-...
February 27, 2012, 5:15 pm
Hoyer Pledges New Push on Deficit
By JONATHAN WEISMAN
The House’s second-ranking Democrat on Monday said that a bipartisan group of lawmakers from both sides of the Capitol was preparing to begin yet another effort to reach a “grand bargain” on deficit reduction – and that the fruits of negotiations could emerge within weeks.
Speaking to the centrist group Third Way, Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the Democratic whip, sought to bury the widely held belief that any deal on taxes and deficits would have to wait until after the November election.
“Contrary to what some believe, we cannot afford to set this work aside,” Mr. Hoyer said, according to the prepared text of his speech. “I’m here to give urgency to the pursuit now of an agreement designed to achieve fiscal sustainability over the long term,”
Congressional aides confirmed that the so-called Gang of Six in the Senate – now up to eight – has reconvened and is trying to move a bipartisan deficit reduction plan from a broad framework to detailed legislative language. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majority leader, has told the group he will not move forward until he sees real language and real momentum.
But Mr. Hoyer’s promises will meet a skeptical Washington after so many failed efforts, including President Obama’s deficit reduction commission, headed by Erskine B. Bowles and Alan K. Simpson; direct talks between the president and Speaker John A. Boehner; separate negotiations between Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the House majority leader, Eric Cantor; and finally the so-called “supercommittee” formed in the wake of last year’s near-default on the federal debt.
An aide involved in the talks said external events could thrust the issue back into the spotlight well ahead of the November election.
A flare-up of the debt crisis in Europe or a resolution of that crisis could turn bond traders’ attention to the United States deficit. The federal government could approach the statutory limit on borrowing sooner than expected. Pressure could grow to stop more than trillion in automatic, across-the-board cuts to defense and non-defense programs, known as “sequester,” or to extend President George W. Bush’s tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 on Jan. 1. Or the White House could shift its attention back to deal-making ahead of Election Day.
“The conventional wisdom in Washington is that our window for reaching a solution is after the election, during a lame-duck session,” Mr. Hoyer said. “By then, we’ll know the shape of the 113th Congress, feel the pressure of the looming sequester, and once again confront the expiration of the ’01 and ’03 tax cuts. That’s where people – including many in this room – see a leverage point for making progress. But the action necessary to reaching a solution requires bipartisan support and a sharing of responsibility for the tough decisions that must be made.”
Mr. Hoyer said quiet work on a deal was ongoing and a legislative package should be ready before the House Republicans take up their own budget blueprint at the end of March.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer
Image by Third Way
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/hoyer-pledges-new-...
February 27, 2012, 5:15 pm
Hoyer Pledges New Push on Deficit
By JONATHAN WEISMAN
The House’s second-ranking Democrat on Monday said that a bipartisan group of lawmakers from both sides of the Capitol was preparing to begin yet another effort to reach a “grand bargain” on deficit reduction – and that the fruits of negotiations could emerge within weeks.
Speaking to the centrist group Third Way, Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the Democratic whip, sought to bury the widely held belief that any deal on taxes and deficits would have to wait until after the November election.
“Contrary to what some believe, we cannot afford to set this work aside,” Mr. Hoyer said, according to the prepared text of his speech. “I’m here to give urgency to the pursuit now of an agreement designed to achieve fiscal sustainability over the long term,”
Congressional aides confirmed that the so-called Gang of Six in the Senate – now up to eight – has reconvened and is trying to move a bipartisan deficit reduction plan from a broad framework to detailed legislative language. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majority leader, has told the group he will not move forward until he sees real language and real momentum.
But Mr. Hoyer’s promises will meet a skeptical Washington after so many failed efforts, including President Obama’s deficit reduction commission, headed by Erskine B. Bowles and Alan K. Simpson; direct talks between the president and Speaker John A. Boehner; separate negotiations between Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the House majority leader, Eric Cantor; and finally the so-called “supercommittee” formed in the wake of last year’s near-default on the federal debt.
An aide involved in the talks said external events could thrust the issue back into the spotlight well ahead of the November election.
A flare-up of the debt crisis in Europe or a resolution of that crisis could turn bond traders’ attention to the United States deficit. The federal government could approach the statutory limit on borrowing sooner than expected. Pressure could grow to stop more than trillion in automatic, across-the-board cuts to defense and non-defense programs, known as “sequester,” or to extend President George W. Bush’s tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 on Jan. 1. Or the White House could shift its attention back to deal-making ahead of Election Day.
“The conventional wisdom in Washington is that our window for reaching a solution is after the election, during a lame-duck session,” Mr. Hoyer said. “By then, we’ll know the shape of the 113th Congress, feel the pressure of the looming sequester, and once again confront the expiration of the ’01 and ’03 tax cuts. That’s where people – including many in this room – see a leverage point for making progress. But the action necessary to reaching a solution requires bipartisan support and a sharing of responsibility for the tough decisions that must be made.”
Mr. Hoyer said quiet work on a deal was ongoing and a legislative package should be ready before the House Republicans take up their own budget blueprint at the end of March.
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