Thursday, August 25, 2005

GOP Fears Gas Price Anger May Spill Over - Yahoo! News

GOP Fears Gas Price Anger May Spill Over - Yahoo! News: "The executive director of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Steven Nadel, said many lawmakers hesitated to adopt ideas for reducing gasoline demand because they were philosophically opposed to government intervention in the market.
In addition, he said, some fear that attack ads might say, 'Senator so-and-so is trying to take away your pickup truck,' because the auto industry asserts that significantly tougher fuel-economy standards would lead to lighter, less-safe vehicles."

Unless we get busy and come up with sensible CAFE standards, we're going to continue to suck texan/saudi hind tit.

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