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Demand Strong Clean Car Standards

Target: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood
Sponsored by: Union of Concerned Scientists

In May, President Barack Obama announced national clean car standards to spur the creation of an American automobile fleet that averages approximately 35 miles-per-gallon (mpg) by 2016. According to the White House, the vehicles operating under the new standards would deliver a lifetime savings of nearly two billion barrels of oil and reduce global warming pollution by almost 900 million tons.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DOT) are currently finalizing a proposal for how to implement these standards. Please tell EPA and DOT leaders that they must ensure we meet the president's goal and not be hampered by the kind of loopholes that undermined previous national fuel economy standards. This is their opportunity to ensure real clean car choices for all Americans and allow the struggling auto industry to emerge as the model for a clean energy economy.

Note: the deadline for submitting comments has been extended to November 27. But please don't delay – send your letter to the EPA and DOT today!

deadline: 11-27-2009
goal: 15,000
 
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Dear Administrator Jackson and Secretary LaHood,

I applaud your combined efforts to create a final rule for how to implement the national clean car standards announced by President Obama. The president's 35 mpg by 2016 target will help me and all Americans play a stronger role in curbing oil dependence and global warming pollution, and help in the transformation and revitalization of our struggling auto industry.

As we know from 30 years of stagnation on national fuel economy, your plan will be the key to ensuring that the president's stated goal -- 35 mpg by 2016 -- becomes reality.

Significant past loopholes, such as allowing automakers to reclassify cars as "light trucks" to decrease fuel economy requirements and incorporating weight thresholds that allowed gas guzzlers like the Hummer to evade all fuel economy regulations, helped to create the current environmental and economic predicament the industry finds itself in.

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10:35 pm PST, Nov 20, Soo Thacker, Alaska
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10:06 pm PST, Nov 20, Jacob Green, Arkansas
In Independence county, we have a industry called FutureFuel and it's a chemical company that helps develop environmentally-friendly and economically-just fuels to help out with certain purposes like, for example, clean out car filters to get rid of pollutants. We need to limit carbon emissions from cars seasonally so plants will have plenty of it. God bless America!
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5:54 am PST, Nov 19, Courtney Osborne, Ohio
We need to reduce our dependence on oil, and making fuel efficency higher is a great first step. It will help reduce the amount of emissions that are produced and spewed into the atmosphere. It will also reduce the amount of gas we have to buy to fuel our cars, thus leaving more money in our wallets and bank accounts. It will help the economy and the world.
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9:12 pm PST, Nov 18, Julia Banzi, Oregon
We must end the age of gas cars.. gas guzzlers should be a thing of the long past.
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9:15 am PST, Nov 18, Phillip Brown, Indiana
Cars may not be the largest polluter, but as long as we are going to make them, we might as well make them right!
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