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Article: National fuel efficiency ratings for tires dodged; California measure awaits hearing.(News)
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- Rubber & Plastics News
- Article date:
- August 18, 2003
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Byline: Miles Moore
The U.S. Senate has sidestepped a vote on a potentially controversial measure to require fuel efficiency ratings for replacement tires.
The issue could come up again in Congress and is still very much alive in the California legislature.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., sponsored the fuel efficiency measure, one of many amendments that never made it to a vote when the Senate considered a massive energy policy bill July 31, its last day before August recess. The Schumer amendment became moot when the Senate-rather than considering the energy package before it-decided instead by an 81-14 vote to adopt an energy bill it had passed ...