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    Trump says automakers are 'crazy' to side with California. They don't need another fight

    by Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times Aug 30, 2019 6 minutes

    SAN FRANCISCO - The Trump administration has a plan to help the auto industry. It wants to obliterate a tough set of Obama-era greenhouse gas emissions requirements set to take effect in 2022, then shove California regulators aside and assert full federal control over how much pollution motor vehicles are allowed to spew.

    You might think that would be music to the ears of an industry that long resisted the state's earlier efforts to dramatically raise mileage standards, only signing on in 2009 after the federal government brokered a deal while saving two of Detroit's Big Three.

    But four automakers - Honda, Ford, Volkswagen and BMW, which together account for 28% of U.S. sales - have signed onto a compromise deal with California to raise MPG and cut emissions. That prompted President Trump to call auto executives politically-correct weaklings who'd short-change driver safety and pass unnecessary costs on to customers. "Crazy!" he tweeted at them last week. "Foolish executives!"

    While the auto companies would love to get the government

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