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GASOLINE SAVED DEBATE * USA - Columnist falsely claimed "no gasoline" has been "saved" as a result of CAFE standards
It's the consumer, stupid
Washington, DC,USA -Media Matters -9 Feb 2009: -- Summary: In a February 8, Washington Post column, Warren Brown claimed that "there has been no gasoline saved in response to ... the various iterations of federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy [CAFE] rules"... However, a 2007 Government Accountability Office report stated: "According to estimates by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and other experts we consulted, the CAFE program has helped save billions of barrels of oil and could continue to do so in the future"... Further, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), raising the "fuel economy standards of America's cars, light trucks and sport utility vehicles to an average of at least 35 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2020, a 10-mpg increase over current levels," which is now mandated by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, "will save approximately 1.1 million barrels of oil per day in 2020"... If consumers don't buy what the new political regime says should be produced, there will be no increase in the conservation of motor fuels, just as there has been no gasoline saved in response to what the media is fond of calling the "strict clean air standards" of the California Air Resources Board, nor any saved in response to the various iterations of federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules... When automobile industry lobbyists supposedly worked their magic on Congress to block that effort, environmental lobbyists appealed to the California Air Resources Board -- California being responsible for nearly 12 percent of new-vehicle sales in the United States -- to come up with clean-air regulations that would have the corollary effect of increasing fuel economy...
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