United States Automobile Exports

United States Automobile Exports Strong While Fuel Companies Struggle    (Libery Voice) The United States (US) automobile industry is doing well. Honda USA Corporation exported over 20 percent more automobiles from the US than it imported from Japan last year. 2013 marks the first time a car manufacturer's foreign-based operations exported more than it imported from the home country. However, while the US auto industry has flourished, the fuel industry, automobile companies' mutually dependent counterpart, struggled with strong government interference.   Honda spent more than $2 billion dollars to expand its Marysville, OH production facility. The company's US facilities manufacture Accords, Accuras, Civics, and Sport Utility Vehicles. Along with its plant in Marysville, the company has production facilities in Lincoln, Alabama and Greensburg, Indiana.   UC Berkeley professor, Harley Shaiken states that such production and exports illustrate that the US still manufactures goods for domestic and global markets. US manufacturing continued an overall decline however, falling by 16 percent since 2004. The US automobile market itself remained import heavy, with over 50 percent of cars manufactured abroad. Still, the automotive manufacturing industry showed signs of growth in the U.S. Chrysler, General Motors, and Ford exported over a million cars in 2012, including 740,000 to Canada.   Read the rest of this breaking news in the Liberty Voice article  "United States Automobile Exports Strong While Fuel Companies Struggle."