The Motor City is the name that Detroit, Michigan was given back in the 1950's when it was the center of the automobile universe and other manufacturing nations sent their nascent industrialists to learn how to design and produce the cars and trucks that we drive today.
The generosity of the Detroit automakers was heartwarming, giving tours to the uniformly black-suited visitors and enrolling them in their technical institutes. Something happened in the decades since and today the American Automobile Industry is dissolving, The Ford Motor Company is leading the way forward by closing plants and alimenting tens of thousands of employees.
The cost of providing Health Insurance is one of the reasons cited for the auto industry having to dismiss up to two-hundred thousand employees. Those are jobs that are going to be lost forever.
The province of Ontario, Canada surpassed the State of Michigan in number of autos and trucks produced in 2005, and Toyota is building new plants there, rather than in The United States,the automaker saves $5.00 per hour because Canada has a National Health Care System.
Now the State of California is designing cars; that is, it is setting even more standards for car-makers to meet in order to sell vehicles to it's twenty million licensed drivers. (Over one million vehicles a year.)
Governor Arnold S+13 signed into law AB 32 which requires Greenhouse Gases to be reduced by 25% by 2020. The way forward is going to be more expensive cars and trucks and gasoline.
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