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NEWS BREAK: Congress Passes Fuel Economy Increase
December 18th, 2007 by jayb
Wow. Congress has passed a bill that the White House indicates the President will sign that increases fleet-wide fuel economy standards from 25 MPG to 35 MPG by 2020.
Democrats won a significant level of Republican support by eliminating provisions in the bill that would have required higher utilization of wind and solar energy by public utilities, created incentives for plug-in hybrids and would have rolled back some of the tax breaks that the oil companies received in the last big energy bill. So while the final bill is not as green as it could have been, increasing the fuel economy standards to 35 MPG is a big positive step forward.
Here is the report from AutoGreenBlog and the original report from AP.
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smccrindle said...
Well, it’s a start. We’re at the point now where ‘too little, too late’ is at least better than nothing at all. The upcoming changes in the American political climate this year should be very interesting.
Posted on: January 10th, 2008 at 8:58am