"Drill" in Detroit to Bring Down Gas Prices!

We need a real solution to high gas prices. Cars that go farther on a gallon of gas will help us reduce our oil addiction and protect consumers from high gas prices. Instead of setting aggressive new mileage standards, the Bush administration and its allies are calling for more oil drilling off our precious beaches and wilderness areas – this will benefit Big Oil not consumers.

The fact is that Bush's Department of Transportation (DOT) is undermining the new fuel economy standards Congress passed in 2007. The DOT unrealistically assumes a gallon of gas will cost around $2.50 through 2020 and that hybrid vehicles won't even exist until 2014. Because the agency balances the cost of new fuel economy technology against the gas savings the new technology provides, the administration uses these outrageous assumptions to reduce the automakers' obligation to put existing technologies to work so that consumers will have more fuel-efficient vehicles to choose from.

According to the Administration's own analysis, if DOT simply used a more accurate gas price, more of today's fuel saving technologies could be put to work faster, saving consumers enough fuel to equal about a $1 per gallon discount at the pump. We need real solutions like this – not policies that line the pockets of big oil and increase our addiction to oil. Even the Administration's Energy Information Agency concludes that new drilling will have a minuscule impact on oil prices and even then, not for a decade or more.

Congress must now get personally involved in saving the historic fuel economy standards they created in 2007. Please tell your members of Congress to save fuel economy from Administration tampering in order to truly address America's pain at the pump.

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