Edwards speech puts fuel economy burden on consumers - Public Citizen - Auto Safety & Consumer Protection

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards today called for Americans to drive more fuel-efficient vehicles, but we still need policy changes that would make that idea a reality. In his platform , Edwards rightly vows to raise fuel economy standards to 40 mpg by 2016. The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program was established precisely because the market without any fuel economy requirement left the nation dangerously dependent on foreign oil. Instead of taking advantage of technologies that could make vehicles more fuel efficient, automakers have allowed those technologies to gather dust on the shelf and have produced gas guzzling sport utility vehicles (SUVs). The automakers aggressively marketed SUVs to the American public, claiming that these rollover-prone and dangerous vehicles would make them safer on the roads. read more

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