on the economy? yeah. so let s take it globally. on the u.s. side, we ve already seen a slowdown. we have had trade essentials turning in to trade war. we ve had a global slowdown which also weighs on u.s. growth. and finally the fiscal stimulus is filtering out of the system. so while question had 3% growth in 2018, we expected to slow down to under 2%. and the jump in oil prices hits people s pocketbooks. what they put in the pump they can t spend at the mall. one positive for the u.s., for one thing, despite all of the suvs on the road, we have become much more fuel efficient. back in 1980, we had i d say about 8% of household spending went to oil. now it is about half that. the other thing is, as we have become a very large domestic producer of oil, that gives us more cushion.
dana: solving the wrong problem. i hate when that happens. gasoline in your car, andrew yang, a vehicle buy back program. watch? will we have to drive electric cars? there will still be some legacy gas guzzlers on the road for quite sometime. this is not a country where you re going to take someone s clunker away from them. you are going to offer the buy the clunker back and help them upgrade. dana: this just in, mike. beto o rourke, another candidate, we have a tweet that says beto o rourke s spokes person said he is taking the volt bus because it pollutes less. airport travel security takes nearly every bit of time as the four hour volt ride. why not choose the lower carbon option. i get that. our vehicles are actually becoming more and more fuel efficient. welsh definitely. cars are not only becoming more fuel efficient. there s a lot of things to like about electric cars and fuel cell cars in terms of cars being
posted a 29 percent drop in on you will profit the budget airline blames higher fuel costs cabin crew strikes and fears the competition says it s also affected by the grounding of boeing 737 max which is considered more fuel efficient. now the morning shave is big business for the razor blade industry consumers worldwide forked out 3 and a half $1000000000.00 on blades last year is just one problem sales are on the decline there are several reasons for this bid it at the moment and with western societies aging old dimension a place the smaller market share is distributed among more produces as well the traditional market giants gillette and wilkinson facing new rivals gillette is still world leader with almost 58 percent of the market is followed by wilkinson with close to 13 percent but startups dawlish shave club and harry s making life
government, these obama standards have? remember, these were enacted when gm and chrysler had filed for bankruptcy so the government had the car companies where they wanted them. and they enacted these and since they ve enacted these, fuel cars have become more fuel efficient. would they have without government standards? i m no the so sure. detroit is all about the bottom line. that s the most important thing. so detroit s more interested in selling cars at a lower price and letting the consumer worry about how much gas they put in the car. yes. but the gas is in many cases a bigger variable than the price of the car. and because gas prices are now at historic lows people have chosen to buy bigger car, suvs, light trucks that are now more fuel efficient. ford is a great example. they made an aluminum pickup truck. f-150. still the best selling vehicle. it has what s called an
reason people are ditching their hybrids and their suvs instead they re using. 45% of people traded in a hybrid. suvs are becoming much more fuel efficient. smaller models they are the most popular. so john we re not seeing the return to prerecession gas-guzzlers. but we re seeing that return to suvs. you know suvs are practical. they take the whole family. you re obsessed with the hybrids being slow. you can go faster in a hybrid. every time i m behind a prius, it doesn t move. mounting questions this morning over the death of a man mysteriously injured during his arrest. serious the justice department has now launched a civil rights investigation. i heard the young man screaming, get off my neck get off my neck. we re going to figure out