Washington, D.C.—President Obama today announced the outline of proposed clean car standards that by 2030 will cut annual gasoline use nationally by as much as 23 billion gallons, reduce annual emissions of global warming pollution by as much as 280 million metric tons, and save Americans over $80 billion at the gas pump annually.*
The standards will cover cars and light trucks in model years 2017-2025, and are expected to require that these vehicles meet a global warming pollution standard equivalent to a 54.5 miles-per-gallon fleet-wide average by 2025.
Foster Hardiman, Federal Field Organizer with Environment Maryland, issued the following statement in response to the announcement:
“Oil is America’s Achilles heel, holding us back from protecting our environment and growing our economy. But today’s clean cars proposal is the single biggest step this country has ever taken to end our addiction to oil—and tackle global warming—and the Obama administration should be loudly applauded for taking it. By ensuring that the cars of tomorrow are much cleaner and more fuel-efficient than the cars of today, we will reap huge global warming pollution reductions and oil savings. Cleaner cars will benefit Maryland’s environment and our families’ health, while saving Maryland residents money at the gas pump and helping to protect our national security.
“We will work with the administration to further strengthen several elements of this proposal, as the problems of global warming and our addiction to oil demand that we make the final standards as strong as possible. We can do this by putting American ingenuity to work and avoiding loopholes that will mean lost oil savings and pollution reductions.
“We again applaud the Obama administration for this historic step forward that will benefit Maryland’s environment, our health, our economy and our national security, and we look forward to working with the administration to strengthen this proposal moving forward.”
4 comments:
You can legislate all you want, but there is no way to nail down a mileage number until you nail down a fuel mixture. I burn more fossil fuel per mile on 10% alcohol than I do on pure gasoline. I use more gasoline per mile using e10 that I do running it pure. DUH. ten cents a mile on gasoline, eleven cents on cheap gasohol (motorcycle)
once again we are being loaded up with dumb regulations. going "green" to the detriment of this country. it just doesn't make sense......
And next year (or so) when he's out of office, this will mean nothing.
If you all want to keep buying cars that get 15 miles per gallon, and like spending $50 or $60 to fill up go right ahead. I'll be happy to only have to fill my tank every other week instead of every week with a car that gets 50 mpg. Just because Pres. Obama's name appears in the article does not make something automatically bad. I'm not sure how spending less money to import oil is "dumb," but whatever keep living in your dream world
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