Mitt and McCain Offer Differences on Car Culture

Cars in Your Blood? You May Want to Get That Checked Out

As the clock winds down on another primary contest for the Republicans, Senator John McCain and Governor Mitt Romney are offering two different visions of what they see as the future of the car industry in America.

Romney wants to bring back all the jobs Michigan has lost and blames their departure not on globalism, but on fuel efficiency standards. McCain, the only Republican candidate to recognize that global warming exists, is at least pushing legislation that would increase fuel efficiency.

Let’s check in with the front runners to see what they have to say in their own words…

Mitt Romney: Just as Romney told Schieffer he is the only GOP candidate “that’s got the automobile industry in my blood veins,” he told the group in Southfield that he alone could remember the Motor City’s glory days. “I grew up in this state,” he said. “I remember when Michigan was the pride of America.”

John McCain: It wasn’t government’s job to protect buggy factories and haberdashers when cars replaced carriages and men stopped wearing hats. But it is government’s job to help workers get the education and training they need for the new jobs that will be created by new businesses in this new century.