Obama pushing stronger fuel-efficiency standard

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/uselection/2009/January/uselection_January286.xml§ion=uselection

26 January 2009

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is ready to give states more leeway to curb emissions from cars and to get the federal government moving on fuel-efficiency standards that could remake the auto industry.

Obama is poised to announce his plans later Monday at the White House, say officials familiar with the details who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid pre-empting the president.

The attention to energy comes as Obama heads into his first full week as president, with an agenda dominated by economic woes and a push to get a huge stimulus plan through Congress.

In one key move, Obama is aiming to let California and other states set their own tailpipe emission standards — without having to get a waiver from the Environmental Protection Administration, as has been the case. The policy change would furnish another alternative for reducing greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide, which contribute to global warming. It also would reverse a Bush era policy that put up legal obstacles to California's go-it-alone stance.

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1. Yep. US presidents all AWOL on fuel economy standards, assholes every one.

Well, since Carter anyway.

One of the men who discovered the vast reserves of oil in Saudi Arabia said this, paraphrased:

We began to run out of oil the day we filled the first barrel.

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