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Gauge Match
Push to raise fuel-economy standards gaining new support |
Amanda Griscom Little |
11 May 2006 |
Muckraker |
| Cringe as we might over record-high gasoline prices, they could be the best thing to happen to automobile fuel economy since the Arab oil embargo. Nowhere to go but up. The soaring cost of oil in recent weeks has sent Washington lawmakers into an election-year frenzy. Some of their proposals -- like one from Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to offer Americans $100 checks to defray ... |
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| Topics: Congress, consumerism, Ed Markey, fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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