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Article: Carmakers giving up their fight against gas mileage standards
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 23, 2001
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Carmakers giving up their fight against gas mileage standards
Associated Press
Friday, February 23, 2001
Washington -- Automakers agreed Thursday to abandon their longtime
legislative priority of freezing federal gas mileage standards,
shifting their focus to promoting a tax credit for buyers of fuel-
efficient, high-tech vehicles.
Industry representatives said they would support the kind of
credit proposed last year by Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham and
Attorney General John Ashcroft, while they were in the Senate. The
proposal called for as much as $3,000 for gasoline-electric hybrid
vehicles and $4,000 for those powered by fuel cells, which make
electricity with little or no pollution.
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