New Pollution Standards for Autos

Re: Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0472

I support the proposed EPA - NHTSA rule to set strong global warming pollution standards for personal vehicles.

This landmark rule would:

-- Limit greenhouse gas pollution from automobiles;
-- Improve fuel efficiency by about 5% annually;
-- Reduce fleet-wide greenhouse gases 19% by 2030; and
-- Cut carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 950 million metric tons and 1.8 billion barrels of oil over the lifetime of the vehicles sold under the program (model years 2012-2016).

Global warming is the most serious environmental threat facing the planet today. Americans face a wide variety of public health threats, from the spread of infectious diseases to worsening air quality to more intense weather events heat waves, floods, droughts.

[Your comments]

I applaud EPA and NHTSA for setting the first greenhouse gas emissions limits in American history and encourage the Obama administration to continue to find ways to curb the pollution that causes global warming.