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Key proposals & Comments * USA - Bush's State of the Union address
Baltimore,MAR,USA -The Baltimore Sun -Jan 24, 2007: -- ENERGY: Cut U.S. gasoline consumption 20 percent by 2017 by boosting mandates for production of ethanol and other alternative fuels and raising fuel-efficiency standards for passenger cars, light trucks and SUVs... GLOBAL WARMING: Cut emissions from cars and light trucks by 10 percent over 10 years. Stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. vehicles by 2017... EDUCATION: Renew the No Child Left Behind Act... * USA - Washington pushes Big Three to change - Bipartisan plans for fuel efficiency, energy independence mean Detroit must move fast
Detroit,Mich,USA -The Detroit News, by Daniel Howes -24 Jan 2007: -- Every day of every week, Detroit's automakers theoretically push to become more competitive, to build the cars and trucks Americans want, to rescue themselves from financial oblivion -- in effect, to chart their own future... But this week is different, at least in the nation's capital. This week, coastal Democrats led by new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are vying with the Bush Administration for bragging rights on who's pushing Detroit Auto hardest on fuel efficiency and alternative technologies and who's serious about delivering national energy independence...
* USA - Bush Seeks Vast, Mandatory Increase in Alternative Fuels and Greater Vehicle Efficiency
Washington,DC,USA -The New York Times (NY,USA), by EDMUND L. ANDREWS & FELICITY BARRINGER -Jan 24, 2007: -- Vowing to reduce the nation’s thirst for foreign oil, President Bush called on Tuesday for a huge government-mandated increase in renewable fuels — mainly ethanol — and tougher mileage standards for cars and light trucks... It was the second year in a row that Mr. Bush made “energy security” a focal point of his State of the Union address, but his proposals on Tuesday were modest, and perhaps less achievable, than those he made a year ago when he said the nation was “addicted to oil.”... The centerpiece of Mr. Bush’s proposal, which he said would cut the projected use of gasoline by 20 percent over the next decade, was a nearly fivefold mandatory increase in the production of ethanol and other alternative fuels for cars and trucks. The most obvious beneficiaries would be makers of ethanol and other biofuels, but it could also promote the production of liquefied coal... Mr. Bush called for a mandatory requirement that makers of fuel produce 35 billion gallons of alternative fuels a year by 2017, replacing about 15 percent of the projected gasoline use in that year... A second major plank of Mr. Bush’s energy proposal calls for increasing fuel-efficiency standards of cars and trucks by 4 percent a year — about one mile per gallon — starting in 2010 for cars and 2012 for trucks...
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