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Auto Workers, Dealers Break From Industry Over CAFE
Sustainable Business -- An auto-industry based sign-on campaign is urging for passage of a 35 mile-per-gallon fuel economy standard by 2020. The Auto Lobby Doesn't Speak For Us website (http://www.35mpgby2020.com) goes live today to enlist maverick industry workers who believe the domestic auto makers not only can, but must, build more fuel-efficient cars if the industry is to survive.Read this article
Who Doesn't Want Strong and Clean Energy Laws
Check the Markets -- American automakers believe that when it comes to increasing fuel economy, raising the standards to 35 mpg by 2020 just can't be done. But, as members of the American auto industry, we have designed, built and sold automobiles in this country for decades, and we know it can!
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Auto Workers and Auto Dealers Break From Auto Industry Over CAFE Standards
See on:cabraham.com, blogowogo.com, memes.org, yahoo.com, politicsplus.blogspot.comU.S. autoworkers & dealers oppose the auto lobby on fuel efficiency
Groovy Green.com -- The debate over a clean 2007 Energy Bill with strong fuel efficiency and renewable electricity standards is getting hotter. A large group of auto workers and dealers have broken from the industry in order to support the 35 mpg by 2020 fuel efficiency standard that is currently being debated by Congress for the 2007 Energy Bill. An alliance of the Big Three Auto Makers in America - General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler - are aggressively lobbying Congress to lower that standard 32 mpg by 2022.Read this article
Oil hits another record above $97
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices set another record high Tuesday, jumping over $2 on fears of dwindling supplies in the United States, projections for strong worldwide demand and a falling U.S. dollar...
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Gas prices jump back above $3 a gallon
NEW YORK - Gasoline prices jumped back above $3 a gallon at the pump Monday even as concerns about the economy and increases in crude supplies sent oil prices lower. Retail gas prices have been slow to catch up with soaring crude prices, which have gained nearly 39 percent since late August to a trading high of $96.24 on Thursday. Gas prices only started rising steadily in mid-October.
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Auto workers, dealers break from industry over CAFE
Portland ME – Breaking ranks with their own automobile industry, Adam Lee, president of Lee Auto Malls in Maine, Gary Muenzhuber, representing Autoworkers of Minnesota, Inc, Chicago-based Chuck Frank, owner of one of the nation's largest Chevy dealerships and Wisconsin-based Karen Bowen, a former Ford manager, are part of an industry based sign-on campaign to urge passage of a 35 mile-per-gallon (mpg) fuel economy standard by 2020.
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