Let's Drive Away From Oil
- by: go60mpg.org
- recipient: The President of the United States
This fall, President Obama has the opportunity to set fuel efficiency standards that save us money at the pump, decrease carbon pollution, and move us beyond oil.
The technology exists today to build vehicles that save fuel while enhancing safety, performance, and consumer amenities. By relying on American ingenuity and innovation, we can build clean vehicles at a price consumers can afford.
But the auto industry has always been slow to adopt new fuel-saving and safety technology in the absence of strong standards.
Without setting strong new fuel efficiency and global warming pollution standards these fuel-saving and pollution reduction technologies will continue to go under-utilized. Tell President Obama to seize this historic opportunity to make 60 MPG the standard for new vehicles by 2025.
The technology exists today to build vehicles that save fuel while enhancing safety, performance, and consumer amenities. By relying on American ingenuity and innovation, we can build clean vehicles at a price consumers can afford.
But the auto industry has always been slow to adopt new fuel-saving and safety technology in the absence of strong standards.
Without setting strong new fuel efficiency and global warming pollution standards these fuel-saving and pollution reduction technologies will continue to go under-utilized. Tell President Obama to seize this historic opportunity to make 60 MPG the standard for new vehicles by 2025.
Dear President Obama,
A 60mpg fuel efficiency standard is important to me because:
- It will help Americans save money at the gas pump
- Fuel efficient cars help keep the air we breathe clean and healthy
- It is a step towards greater energy independence
- It will spark innovations that create new jobs for Americans
We can use American ingenuity to end our dependence on oil, keeping billions of dollars in our economy, cutting pollution and protecting our coasts from devastating oil spills. The best way for you to help put America on this path is by making our cars and trucks cleaner and more efficient.
I urge you to strengthen pollution and fuel efficiency standards for new cars and trucks that ensure we reduce our dependence on oil by at least 49 billion gallons per year by 2030 -- beyond what is expected from current vehicle standards. That's nearly three times as much oil as we currently import from Saudi Arabia. You can do this by:
- Setting new standards requiring cars and light trucks to achieve at least 60 miles per gallon and emit no more than 143 grams of carbon pollution per mile by 2025, with accurate accounting for fuels including electricity for plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles.
- Setting standards that reduce fuel consumption from long-haul tractor-trailers at least 35 percent by 2017 and require all other medium- and heavy-duty trucks to increase fuel economy to the maximum technically feasible level.
We need your leadership to set strong pollution and fuel efficiency standards that will unleash American technology and ingenuity to help break our country's dependence on oil.
Sign PetitionSign PetitionA 60mpg fuel efficiency standard is important to me because:
- It will help Americans save money at the gas pump
- Fuel efficient cars help keep the air we breathe clean and healthy
- It is a step towards greater energy independence
- It will spark innovations that create new jobs for Americans
We can use American ingenuity to end our dependence on oil, keeping billions of dollars in our economy, cutting pollution and protecting our coasts from devastating oil spills. The best way for you to help put America on this path is by making our cars and trucks cleaner and more efficient.
I urge you to strengthen pollution and fuel efficiency standards for new cars and trucks that ensure we reduce our dependence on oil by at least 49 billion gallons per year by 2030 -- beyond what is expected from current vehicle standards. That's nearly three times as much oil as we currently import from Saudi Arabia. You can do this by:
- Setting new standards requiring cars and light trucks to achieve at least 60 miles per gallon and emit no more than 143 grams of carbon pollution per mile by 2025, with accurate accounting for fuels including electricity for plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles.
- Setting standards that reduce fuel consumption from long-haul tractor-trailers at least 35 percent by 2017 and require all other medium- and heavy-duty trucks to increase fuel economy to the maximum technically feasible level.
We need your leadership to set strong pollution and fuel efficiency standards that will unleash American technology and ingenuity to help break our country's dependence on oil.
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