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New fuel standards deserve support
To the editor Finally, some good news for American consumers, the environment and national security: The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation, with the support of auto manufacturers and environmental groups, have proposed a fuel economy rule that would nearly double the fuel efficiency of America's auto fleet by 2025. This will reduce the amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere by 40 to 50 percent. Not only will the new rule save each of us significant money on gasoline, it will also protect the environment and our health by reducing damaging pollution. This rule will put America's auto fleet nearly in line with where Europe's auto fleet is right now. More good news -- the improved fuel efficiency rule means greater national security, as it will decrease our reliance on foreign oil and keep billions of dollars right here at home. Moreover, the new technology required to improve America's fuel efficiency will create an estimated "43,000 new jobs in the auto sector and 484,000 new jobs overall," according to a report by Ceres, a nonprofit coalition of investors and environmental organizations, cited by the Concord Monitor in its Dec. 26, 2011, editorial. In these contentious times it is wonderful to see solid progress being made. The new fuel economy rule is open for comment until Feb. 13. Please take a moment to email your support for this intelligent and long-overdue improvement of the American auto fleet. Sign on to the support petition at the following website: www.pewenvironment.org/campaigns/clean-energy-pr. Janet Ward ContoocookFriday, January 27, 2012
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