Higher Gas Prices Alone Won’t Make Cleaner Cars a Reality

DC.Streetsblog.org

Nov. 20, 2009

By Elana Schor

...In real pollution terms, that means the average American car will emit just 2 grams fewer CO2 per mile this year than it did in 2008. For Dan Becker, a longtime environmental advocate who directs the Safe Climate Campaign, that paltry progress is an argument for stronger, consistent increases in the nation's fuel-efficiency and emissions standards....
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