Comments on: Bush Plan For 31 MPG Fuel Standard By 2015

Fleetwide Average Efficiency For New Cars More Aggressive Than Energy Law Requires

[blackbug99]

By 2015 Bush will be a bad memory, and we might be still be dealing with his historically inept presidency.

[irliberal]

"Bush Plan For 31 MPG Fuel Standard By 2015"

Is this a joke? This is a joke, right? After witnessing the problems our dependence on oil has caused the "plan" is to raise the fuel standard a few MPG in the next SEVEN years? HAHAHAHAHAHA

The technology exists today to do much better than that. The standard should be around 90-115 MPG after eight years. Oil men Bush and Cheney don''t want that though.

The Bush administration has been so very destructive to the American people; its amazing to me that they aren''t already all in jail.

[bgwinnett]

Forget hybrids, lets have diesels instead. The latest diesel engines in "Yurup" do more miles to the gallon!

[reboot7]

Of course STILL buy gas - not come up with another plan...Bush has to keep his oil company income coming in! Buy new car or buy more gas...

[gce65]

Too little, too late.

[chiknl1ttle]

The law should go more along the lines of 60 MPG for all privately owned non-commercial vehicles. Tax the hell out of anything that can''t produce at least 40 MPG and outlaw SUVs... Let''s become leaders at something other than wholesale destruction.

[prinzowhales]

What a stupendously aggressive goal...Only ten years ago we had electric cars that needed zero gas for 300 miles to the charge...and here is Bush ''pushing'' for a goal that has already been met and passed on many models...

These arse-licking chattels of Big Oil need to be whipped like dogs...31 mpg, indeed. How many oil lobbyists and Big Oil attorneys will have to be placed in croaker sacks and thrown off the 14th Street Bridge before this nation adopts an energy policy that serves the needs of the American people rather than the sewer rats at Standard, BP, AMOCO? Shell and their ilk?

[chrisross2008]

My Honda Civic in the UK does an average of 50mpg and that''s just the standard petrol version. The hybrid does nearer 70. Makes the 31.6mpg by 2015 look a tad pathetic. Way too little, way too late.

[olebd]

The man is completely out of touch with reality. His handlers must be doing this as sort of a inside joke and chuckling their butts off.

Bush needs to retreat to his ranch and keep his mouth shut for the next 7 months.

[bobnjersey]

[These numbers are very challenging. They will stretch the industry to innovate in ways they haven''t had to do in the past and will continue to set us on a course to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from new autos," said Charles Territo]

it''s a bush proposal ... so of course it''s voluntary ... go back to what you were doing before if it''s ''hard''.