Fuel-efficiency Bill * USA - Senate gives green light to
Measure to increase fuel efficiency gets strong bipartisan support, passing 86-8Washington,DC,USA -AP/CNN Money -December 13 2007: -- The Senate passed a trimmed-back energy bill Thursday that would bring higher-gas mileage cars and SUVs into showrooms in the coming decade and fill their tanks with ethanol... The measure calls for the first major increase by Congress in required automobile fuel efficiency in 32 years, something the auto companies have fought for two decades... The car companies will have to achieve an industrywide average of 35 mile-per-gallon for cars, small trucks and SUVs over the next 13 years - an increase of 10 mpg over what the entire fleet averages today... And it would boost use of ethanol to 36 billion gallons a year by 2022, a sevenfold increase, and impose an array of new requirements to promote efficiency in appliances, lighting and buildings... This bill "will begin to reverse our addiction to oil. It's a step to fight global warming," said Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada... Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky predicted President Bush will sign the bill... -See Video- (Photo: Passenger cars and trucks aren't the only vehicles going green - city buses are also getting into the act)
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