Democrats Good For Hybrid Cars
Created November 19, 2006, at 11:37 am by pfezziwig
Americans demonstrated their dissapointment over middle eastern energy dependence on fossil fuels and rising gas prices with a resounding defeat of Bush’s energy policies. These concerns are inextricably linked to hybrid cars and cleaner alternative fuels. The Democrats big win was a major bolster to green cars and alternative fuels.
Fuel efficient standards are emerging as a major political topic. Fuel-efficiency has declined during the past decade for nine of the 13 major manufacturers selling vehicles in the United States, according to a new study by the Consumer Federation of America.
Democrat Edward Markey has proposed raising combined light truck-car standards to an average of 33 miles per gallon by 2016 models. Democrat Barack Obama proposed increasing the average to 40.5 mpg for passenger vehicles and 32.6 mpg for the light-truck category, which includes SUVs, by 2020. Jerry McNerney, who defeated Pombo in California, says he will "dramatically increase the fuel efficiency of new vehicles."
Fuel efficiency and energy independence is already taking a foothold in the next presedential election as likely Republican presidential candidate John McCain of Arizona and Democrat/Independent Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut both wish to address global warming. This will put even more pressure on the current Bush administration to cooperate with the Democrats as the Republicans look to avoid another blowout.
The future is definitely looking a little greener.
Mr Fezziwig, administrator for [URL="http://www.greencarsnow.com"]Green Cars Now[/URL] , a website promoting fuel efficient cars and cleaner alternative fuels.
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5 years ago
thats great, but I am tired off the talk, I want to see democrats actually do something about the environment and hybrid cars.
5 years ago
I agree okla!
our environment is slowly, but surely being poisoned!!
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