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Article: SUVs: Mileage standards pitiful
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- December 28, 2002
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THE BUSH administration's recent increase in gas mileage standards
for SUVs and other light trucks is a transparent sham.
The increase, a pitiful mile and a half per gallon over a three-
year period, is less than the auto industry already has committed
itself to achieving.
As modest as this increase is, it's the first raise in mileage
standards since the 1980s. An attempt in Congress last year to
significantly raise the standards over the next 13 years failed,
victim to the usual silly arguments that opponents always have
raised.
The most convincing argument against raising mileage standards is
that demanding better fuel efficiency from the vehicles makes them
unsafe. A National Academy of ...