Senate Rejects Auto Fuel Economy Boost: "A new energy agenda being fashioned by the Senate will do little to force automakers to substantially increase fuel economy, although cars and SUVs gobble up 40 percent of the oil that is used daily in the United States.
The Senate turned back an attempt Tuesday to include in the energy bill a requirement that automobiles cut gasoline use by 45 percent over the next dozen years. Instead it approved an industry-supported measure that includes new requirements that must be considered before the government can imposing future fuel economy improvements. "
Next time a politician supports war for oil (it just happened in Iraq, and it'll happen again), remember this. They would prefer to kill American soldiers and many of the people they are fighting, rather than increase the fuel efficiency of cars and SUVs, especially. Because that's the choice we are making.

Those of us who drive cars, our gas is coming over the dead bodies of our troops and the native populations of the countries where it is extracted.

If we increase the fuell efficiency of SUVs we can easily save 365 million barrels of oil a year! That's going to cut the demand for oil, lower fuel prices, stimulate the economy and reduce pollution. That would mean that our standard of living would be increased, we wouldn't have to fight wars for oil, so we could cut our "defence" budget. and we would be a lot healthier.
- posted by geoff @ #