It's funny how often Right wing policies end up hurting the industries they claim to want to help.
Richard Nixon was popular with american steelmakers because he was buying steel to make lots of bombs to drop on Vietnam. So many bombs that the American steelmills couldn't keep up with the demand. Japan and Germany had bee buying US steel and started building their own. When the Arab Oil boycott hit the Japanese and Germans, with their newer, more efficient factories could make cars much cheaper than the USA.
Later, Ronald Reagan tore down Jimmy Carter's White House solar panels because that's what the oil industry told him to do.
