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New Aggressive National Fuel Economy Standards Set for Passenger Cars and Light Trucks

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/climate/regulations.htm

David A Gabel
April 1, 2010 02:05 PM

This article relates to the unit of nonrenewable energy and the unit of air pollution. This act will lower the use of oil and lower greenhouse emissions.

The area covered is the United States.

The DOT and EPA, in response to one of the Obama Administration's top priorities, have jointly established aggressive new federal rules that will significantly increase the fuel economy of all passenger cars and light trucks sold in the United States. They have also established new federal rules that would for the first time ever, set national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for these vehicles.The new rules are forecast to save the average buyer of a 2016 model year car $3,000 over the lifetime of the vehicle. EPA estimates that nationally, it has the potential to conserve about 1.8 billion barrels of oil and reduce nearly a billion tons of GHG emissions over the lives of the vehicles.

I think this act is the extra push the car manufactures and society needs to lower carbon emissions from forms of transportation.

barrels of oil- ranges from 100 -200 liters of oil