Since my rather ordinary, 4 cylinder '89 model car gets on average 42mpg, it seems like not too much to ask that efficiency should improve about 48% by 36 years out!
Expel ignorant liar gangster politicians (mostly Republican) that protect corporate polluters and climate catastrophe makers. Americans have been mislead and kept in the dark about climate disruption by corporate media brainwashers working for the oil/automobile/asphalt/concrete/construction industry gangsters. climateprogress . org --- climatecodered . net --- skepticalscience . com -- ucsusa . org Do you really care about future generations?
We have the technology to be driving all-electric vehicles exclusively, and to be generating all our electricity from wind, solar and hydro. The auto makers are stuck in the 60's with their designs. We need a president who will use his leverage to require the auto makers to wake up to the changing times, and who will invest, as he promised, in renewable energy.
Please use the political clout you have due to the bailout to press for much higher standards from the auto companies. By using the money they spend on lobbying to lower standards, they could research the problem, solve it and in the end lead the industry. I for one do not want to bail them out again in ten years because they refuse to be ethical. I would like to see some patriotism from them instead of greed. After all, our planet does have a problem.
The theoretical MPG limit is 150. Half of that is 75. We are already over 50MPG. Don't spend time whining about 60. If the US won't do it then the Japanese or Chinese will. When that happens the US consumers will buy Asian cars -- just like they did in the 1970s when the US automakers bauked at improvements. What happened to American exceptionalism?
Yes, it's great that we were able to save many jobs in the auto industry. The industry must reciprocate NOW by giving the taxpayers who bailed them out freedom from addiction to the gas pump. Stop focusing your money and effort on telling us you can't get us to 60 MPG, and focus on solving the problem. President Obama, please use the leverage of our auto industry bailout to move the industry NOW.
The U.S. Auto Industry (especially Ford) has fought major gas mileage increases since the 70's. We've bailed out Chrysler and GM using our tax dollars. It's time they become a partner in alleviating the dependancy on oil of any kind and making clean cars available within the next ten years. Once again, the U.S. is behind in developing such. Why? Are they entrenched with the Oil companies? We can only speculate as they are so secrective. Demand change NOW in developing eco friendly cars.
We the people bailed out Chrysler. I completely agree that in return on our investment we should have cars that get much better mileage, and 60 miles is well within our reach within the next two to five years.
We the people bailed out Chrysler. I completely agree that in return on our investment we should have cars that get much better mileage, and 60 miles is well within our reach within the next two to five years.
The Chrysler bailout is just another example of Obama helping the super rich at the expense of the rest of us. How many promises must this guy break before the so called left wakes up? How many of the people commenting will even consider voting for a true progressive (ie third party candidate) in 2012?
WE paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout. For this return on our investment we want a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, which will help relieve pain at the pump, cut pollution, and bring new vehicle technologies—and the jobs they create—to market.
60 mpg by 2025? This is the United States! We can do WAY better than that. 60 mpg by 2015. All we have to do is stop using evil (war) as a foreign policy tool and quit bailing out large financial concerns that drove the global economy over a cliff while high on derivatives and credit default swaps.
Also I live in a community/suburb that has very few sidewalks/bikeways; there is little respect nor safety for cyclists and/or pedestrians. Incentives and funding need to be implemented to address these issues.
1) Stop subsidizing oil, institute a 60 miles per gallon standard for U.S. automobiles within the next 5 years - or 10 at the absolute most - with an interim 5 year goal in the range of 40 - 45 mpg.
2) Institute tax incentives to purchase the fuel efficient autos.
3) Allocate substantial funding to create and/or modernize mass, clean public transportation systems (not federal highways) including above ground rail/trolly cars, subways, and clean fuel busses.
If they really want to make themselves competitive, not just in the U.S., then you as President need to make the 60 miles per gallon standard the law for all car companies.
My tax $ paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout. The return on my investment should be a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, which will help relieve pain at the pump, cut pollution, and bring new vehicle technologies—and the jobs they create—to market.
I don't understand how this country can rationalize subsidizing oil companies. Likewise, we need 60 mpg cars, at the very least. Let us find the political will to do the right thing!
The Big 3 automakers need to take a turn a leaf out of the independent, small automakers' book (probably stealing ideas, but it'd be 'progress' nonetheless) and make much more fuel efficient, smaller cars. 60 mpg should be the standard, not the exception.
To those who claim that government can't create jobs: talk to the hand. To Chrysler and GM: it's time to pay back the American taxpayers with a line of reliable, fuel-efficient and economical vehicles that will help wean us off our dependence on foreign oil.
Congratulations to Chrysler for their tremendous strides and repaying the government so quickly. Thanks President Obama for loaning them the money and not giving it outright. Now please end subsidies for oil companies. They don't need our help.
All we taxpayers paid for the auto industry bailout. The payback should include a 60 mph mileage standard by 2025. Oil reserves are shrinking, foreign oil requires us to prop up undesirable foreign regimes and our atmosphere is is becoming more CO2 toxic year by year.
I think its critical the US takes the lead on sustainable energy, removes all energy dependence on foreign nations, and defines the path that the world will take to a cleaning, sustainable, and afforable energy future! Please continue to work to make this happen. Thanks!
Let's put more people to work, lower our dependence on fossil fuels, and improve the environment by requiring a fuel efficiency of 60 mpg on new vehicles.
I would like to see more affordable electric cars & their infrastructure, including your fleet. I eagerly await to see solar panels on the roof of the White House. I want more support & protection for wild lands & wild life. Let's cut the tax breaks for the wealthy & big corporations; they need to pay their fair share.
Vehicle efficiency secures our energy future: With oil prices now more than $100 per barrel, about $1 billion leaves our economy every day to pay for petroleum imports. By improving how our vehicles use fuel, we can lower over overall dependence on oil while creating jobs and cleaning up our air.
Why does everyone keep saying "by 2025, we will be able to," or "we will have..." People, that is 14 years from now!! I think we can do better than that! I believe the only reason for such a delay is protection of the industries currently relying on fossil fuels for their profits. I believe we need new, creative policies that will help those companies convert quickly, and new ones emerge if they cannot or will not. They (and we) have known the score long enough now. Let's get cracking.
Doing so would reduce our nation's carbon footprint, create many American jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. It would also benefit evironmental conservation and endangered and threatened species: decreased demand for oil means decreased demand for drilling.
Our tax dollars have rescued the American car industry. Now we want a product that in line with the ideals and goals of 21st century America. We want a standard of at least 60 mpg, more hybrid and electric cars, and the infrastructure to handle this new demand.
We should convert all cars to electric. But if that's politically unfeasible, (quite a huge human disgrace if you ask me), we need vehicles that get at least 60mpg by 2025.
Thank you, Mr. President, for all the hard, effective work you have accomplished so far. Now the auto industry is pushing hard on you to support weaker clean car standards than you have proposed. Do not cave in to the pressure. It would be the wrong thing to do. The auto industry is more interested in its Quarterly bottom line profit margin than it is in what's best for all Americans. 60 miles per gallon clean car standard by 2025 is good. just do it. Stockholders can stand a bit fewer $
Please have the federal government require that new cars meet a fuel efficiency standard of 60 miles per gallon.
We, the taxpayers bailed out the car companies. We deserve fuel efficient cars for our money, which protect the environment, which save us money on fuel, and which prevent us from having to import oil from repressive foreign countries.
We gave Big Auto a bailout when they needed it. Now they can do something for us - and for the planet. Let's reduce dependency on oil - both foreign and domestic- and move ahead with fuel efficiency.
It's a no brainer. Raising fuel efficiency on cars will save Americans billions of dollars and reduce the need for military spending to protect our Middle East oil supplies. Mr. President you have the resolve to lead us there and we support you.
Let's get on the turnpike to solar and hydrogen powered vehicles! A few days in California would convince anyone that pumping more fumes into the air is destroying our quality of life.
Clean car standards of 60 mpg will save consumers money and keep our money in the US instead of going to foreign oil suppliers. Clean Car standards will help prevent the calamitous destruction of our environment. We need Clean Car standards now.
My family wants clean air so that our children and their children can breath easy knowing that our actions now ensured their safety in the future. Increased fuel efficiency is just one step to attaining this goal. Please support high fuel efficiency cars for the American Public!
It can be done it is being done and now you should push for clean energy vehicles that get at least 60 miles per gallon. This will have a great impact on not only our environment but on our economy. A true win win situation.
We could sure use clean energy vehicles able to travel enormous distances without using much fuel, but we'll settle for 60 mpg cars. The auto industry owes us, the tax payer this efficiency.
We could sure use clean energy vehicles able to travel enormous distances without using much fuel, but we'll settle for 60 mpg cars. THe auto industry owes us, the tax payer this efficiency.
We need those 60 mpg cars! Toyota's mishaps also had a lot to do with Chrysler's come back. Without higher mpg on the cars of the future their business will go down again.
Yes, I know...my friends, family and I bailed these guys out, and we did not do that for the middle class losers in the housing-mortgage mess. The good news: many people in the auto manufacturing industry kept their jobs. I'm still sick over so many losing their houses, and when not derelict or moldering away, those houses still inhabitable are sitting empty, depreciating the market values in many, many neighborhoods. So, industry, yea? And, banks, yea? And, people, "losers", forgeddabout?
Let's cut way back on production of the big gas hog pickup trucks. Ninety percent of these expensive, MASSIVE extra long-bed pickup trucks with a back seat are being used for commuting and family transportation. These trucks are too heavy and high above the road and are KILLING MACHINES in any accident with the smaller fuel efficient cars. They should be phased out except for documented commercial use. This will make it much easier to meet the 60 mpg target.
Yes the big three are back. What a shame they had to take our tax dollars to keep them in their private jets and cush positions with huge salaries and bonuses while the people who paid those taxes are still in such shape thanks to the greed of these businessmen and the congressmen they own. And we still have no serious work on alt. fuel vehicles or anything that might interfere with their insatiable greed and the workers who's money saved them are still in deep trouble.
Here's the thing: American auto manufacturers can do better. They always fight every government requirement tooth and nail. (think about seat belts and airbags) Then they knuckle down...and innovate. It's time for us to demand and them to respond. The American auto industry CAN develop vehicles that get 60 mpg and even better. So let's throw down that gauntlet and watch them shine!
Now that we've bailed them out it is time for them to make America stand strong and avoid control by foreign interests for oil or sacrifice the bounty of nature to the extraction industries who will sell it to the highest bidder... even our enemies. 60 MPG by 2025.. Yes We Can!
Thank you, Mr. President. You, and the legislators in Washington D.C. now have an even greater challenge! This country, and every citizen that lives in it, deserves a Federal Government that REALLY CARES about it's citizens. Our country, and every living creature living in it, are falling prey to Big Business. This isn't new news. Factory food dominates our markets and restaurants. Pharmaceutical's make obscene profits on drugs with worse side effects than the illness itself! Shame on DC!
We taxpayers paid to bail out the auto industry. It's time they used our money to provide the kind of vehicles we want: high efficiency, high mileage (60 + mpg) vehicles that run on all sorts of power - including sources that aren't in service yet. High speed rail systems will help, too, but let's galvanize the auto industry to really start innovating and stop with the same-old, same-old.
Since billions of dollars of our tax money was spent to bail out two of the automakers, it is fitting and fair that the auto companies start building cars and light trucks that provide 60 mpg or better. Also, we need to focus more on producing electric vehicles. Moving forward with a rail system such as has been accomplished in Europe, Japan and other countries will both save money in the long run and reduce carbon emissions significantly. Let's move forward.
Agreed with everyone else that has posted on this: we paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout and the best ROI would be a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon. Let's do it Mr. Prez!!!
Folks who don't want to change, work in that plant in Toledo and all over America. We need them to make electric cars and cars and trucks that get 60 mpg. We need you Mr. President, to lead us to a better future.
Also the only folks that benefit from manufacturing in China are America's ultra-rich. They moved our jobs overseas and I'll never forgive them.
I want the jobs back and the money to stay here where it belongs.
It now costs as much to fill up my Corolla as it used to cost to fill my Suburban and the Suburban sits in the garage. It would be a nice return on our investment in the auto industry if there was a mandatory 60 mpg requirement for 2025!!!!
You have the technology already needed to make cars get 60 mpg... The time is now for not giving up, but making this idea a reality! Together, we can save OUR Planet!
Hey, I drive a 1987 Toyota which gets 40 mpg on the freeway. How about supporting cars that get 60 mpg so I can trade in my old one? I'm WA-A-A-A-I-T-I-N-G !!!
This is good news but we all need more. The big 3 of the USA need to get ahead of the competition! The USA taxpayers (and the whole planet) deserve the ability to buy US-made vehicles that are plug-in hybrids that run 60 mpg when using gas. Mr. President, please require them to do so by 2020.
With your emphasis on alternate forms of energy and better electric batteries for cars, requiring 60 Miles Per Gallon would help greatly. The Carbon Footprint would be lessened significantly and creating cars that used non oil-based fuels create jobs.
Since tax payers helped the auto industry to survive, it seems now is a good time to remind them to be good citizens and support, not fight, better fuel economy standards. I drive a twenty five year old Ford Escort deisel that still gets 45 mpg. If Ford could do this a quarter of a century ago, there is no reason GM and Chrysler couldn't make this a standard now. That old car got 60 mpg when it was new. There is no good reason this kind of standard is not across the board on new cars.
I want to remind you just who paid for the multi-billion-dollar bailout. The return on our investment we want is a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, which will help relieve pain at the pump, cut pollution, and bring new vehicle technologies—and the jobs they create—to market.
I'd certainly believe in the change you promised if you'd follow up on, among others, this issue. This is NOT a labor issue (except to the extent it produces jobs for the technology required). It IS about energy independence and cleaner air.
The American people, not special interests, not the right (whom you may feel a need to mollify), not members of your party, but the American taxpayer, paid for the multi-$B bailout. Our interest on that "loan" must be exemplary corporate citizens who adhere to a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon. Please make it happen.
They killed the GM EV-1 and it still beats out much of the performance of most of the "new" EVs by a significant margin. How can we believe in change when things are changing for the worse? Get us going full throttle to renewable energy autos and an infrastructure that supports it. Anything less will not be supported or believed. Do I sound like a cynic? Can one be cynical enough in these times?
Please be reminded that we taxpayers paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout and the best return on that investment would be a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon. There is no good reason to wait any longer to mandate 60 mpg vehicles. I just rented a Prius in California that go very close to that while driving in the Sierra foothills.
Please increase the mileage requirement to 60 mpg. We need to become less dependent on fossil fuels and this is a means of transitioning to not needing the automobile at all! Everything is necessary, though insufficient.
I want a car that gets at least 60 miles to the gallon. And I it should also have very low tail pipe pollution. We bailed them out now they need to step up and help us cut pollution and use less fossil fuels for transporation.
The best thing the auto industry can do for consumers, for America, and for the earth is to raise its mph standard to 60 immediately. It is doable and it is smart. I urge you, Mr President, to do what you must to bring this about.
It is now important to invest a green car standard of 60 mpg by 2025. We must forge toward the entrepreneurial innovation that will free us from the death grip of big oil.
The American people paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout. The return on our investment we want is a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, which will help relieve pain at the pump, cut pollution, and bring new vehicle technologies—and the jobs they create—to market.
Might I remind you that WE paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout and the best return on that investment would be a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon.
I too support a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon by 2025. Adopting such a standard would spark new innovation, create jobs, greatly reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and improve the environment. It's time to do this!
American citizens paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout. The return on their investment they want is a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, which will help relieve pain at the pump, cut pollution, and bring new vehicle technologies—and the jobs they create—to market.
I, and many other Americans voted for you because we believed in your campaign promise to help make America a "greener" country. It's time for you to make good on your promise by investing in technology for biofuels, hybrids, fuel cells, and better burning diesel and gasoline for automobiles. We are a nation which as grown mighty due to our innovative vision. Do not hold us back any longer! Invest in a more sustainable future, and you ensure that this nation will flourish.
Let's be truly bold, truly innovative and truly take world leadership in auto technology by mandating a 60 mile-per-gallon standard by 2025. We CAN do it!! Will you lead us? Robert Dick, NYC
I want a car that uses water for fuel. Until that day arrives, it's essential we keep raising the bar on efficiency standards for gasoline engines. 60 mpg by 2025, the scientists tell us, is no stretch of the imagination. Let's go for it, not as a Hail Mary end zone shot, but as the absolute minimum we will accept. Reviving American manufacturing requires ambition; complacency just won't do in a global economy.
We paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout. The return on our investment we want is a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, which will help relieve pain at the pump, cut pollution, and bring new vehicle technologies—and the jobs they create—to market.
My 1988 Mitsubishi still delivers 28.5 MPG in short stop city driving. When I was in Europe more than a decade ago, we drove a rented station wagon--larger than most cars there-- that was getting 40 MPG. Where are the fuel standards? Why does gas not have ONE standard so the costs come down instead of the patchwork? I can't vote for you again. All talk, never on point, always in rear waiting to step in last minute to look like you are in charge. Sick of it.
Dear Mr. President, My 1994 Honda Civic is nothing to look at but still delivers 45 mpg on regular gas. When I bought it, I fully expected that, 17 years later, this country's auto fleet would routinely glean 65 miles out of a single gallon. If the industry could make an engine like that in the past century, then they've all got some explaining to do now. Younger generation believes that current models' mileage is great but we older folks compare everything every day.
American taxpayers bailed out the U.S. auto industry demanding they become competitive with cars manufactured elsewhere. Although our financial investment has mostly been re-paid, the best return on our risky investment would be to achieve a clean car standard of at least 60 miles per gallon, before 2025. They must be able to compete without requiring bailouts in the future, simultaneously reducing our dependence on foreign oil and reducing the buildup of greenhouse gases.
Thanks for your advocacy and action that greatly assisted in saving so many good middle class auto industry jobs,...and Thanks for your push for higher CAFE standards. Please continue that advocacy and legislation to push CAFE to 60MPG by 2025! Yes We Can Green Job our Economy!
please combine the revitalized auto industry, increasing use of petro fuels & their decreasing supply, global climate change, and the bp oil spill to justify higher required standards for auto efficiency by 2025.
Dear Mr. President, please push for greater energy efficiency in our cars so that they reach 60 MPG by 2025. And please make it your top priority to support research, development and manufacturing in the USA.
Hey President Obama, when are you going to support stronger MPG standards for cars? Your campaign called for strong environmental standards and green economy and you have failed to act on your campaign promises in a meaningful way.
"I want all vehicles to have better MPG mandates, period. The technology is there, but for unknown reasons, the auto industry does not want to give us what we want. 60 MPG is reasonable and would be a great return on our investment"
We need stricter MPG standards, both for the environment and to ease the burden on consumers' pocketbooks for gas. Require higher standards, Mr. President!
The only way towards a greener future for our country is stricter CAFE standards. It's time the auto industry gave us better options with better fuel economy.
Mr. President, I can get 60 mpg on my 1992 Nissan pickup right now by adding a hydrogen generating system to it. In fact, I have it half installed. The science behind it is simple enough for any high school student to understand, and the cost of the kit is under $300.
I want all vehicles to have better MPG mandates, period. The technology is there, but for unknown reasons, the auto industry does not want to give us what we want. 60 MPG is reasonable and would be a great return on our investment
We the tax payers paid for the car bail-out so I am now asking that the car industries return the favor and start producing inexpensive 60 miles per gallon cars similar to the electric (w/gas extended range) Chevy Volt, which currently is too expensive even with the tax break. The technology exists, so make it the standard. Imagine, American cars would be ub demand all over the world if we could hit a 60 mpg standard and would boost the American car industry even more!
The spirit of Chicago is becomming difficult to sustain as so many issues are negotiated to the least common denominator. The people's money bailed the auto industry out and they owe us greater fuel efficiency in a shorter period of time. '60mpg' is what we deserve within thirty years. A sustainable future is a matter of life or death. This administration and these auto companies must make change happen, now.
Dear Mr President; I believe that within 30 years the very concept of burning fuel to get things done will seem quaint and that everything will run on electricity generated mainly by solar technology. I may not live long enough to see that happen, but whether the technology and devices needed to do that are developed and built in the US or in some other country is up to you and whoever succeeds you. Please work to make that happen here.
We need to teach & advance sustainable practices across our nation to create the future including fuel and energy efficiency, affordable transportation options and renewable energy investments. We need to honestly weigh the long term environmental and human risks and costs of standing on an economic only 1 legged stool. We need to stop externalizing costs to future generations. What about the precautionary principle? We need to build a sustainable future. Denial will not change this fact.
Dear Mr. President, When I think of the resounding gratitude and elation my friend described on election night in Chicago, and the enormous swell of pride so many millions of us were able to feel as Americans (pretty much for the first time in our lives), I am saddened. You have let us down. You have a choice to make, to go beyond the same old election politics, to do the right thing. YOu haven't done it. Why no solar panels on the White House? Why no 80mpg cars? It's hard to believe in you now.
We bailed out the auto industry. We have the technology to drastically improve automobile fuel efficiency. The best return on our investment, for our country and our future, would be to have a policy that enforced a mandatory 60 mpg by 2014. Stand up to the lobbyist and stand up for the American people.
Better fuel economy (60 MPH by 2025) is nice--but it's not enough! We have brilliant and innovative automakers who can develop such a car selling at a reasonable price in half that time. Some of them already have (Ford has been selling them in Europe for years!) We simply must find a way to make it possible to improve gas mileage--because our environment won't let us postpone it. The weather this year is just a foretaste of what we can expect if we don't get climate change under control.
I'm glad for the return of jobs, but the gas mileage must improve. The technology is there; the will of the auto makers is lacking. Our tax money should be put to use on this issue.
I'm willing to pay more for a car to pay less at the pump. We simply cannot sustain this oil economy - not for our economy, not for the earth, not for our children or our children's children. We need better fuel economy. A 60mpg standard sounds like a good place to start.
You are speaking in front of an American icon - the Jeep Wrangler 4x4. At best it gets 19 mpg. I drive a 19 year old Honda Civic VX that gets 50mpg. That's old technology and it outpaces anything made today.
Some are calling for a 60mpg standard by 2025. That's too far away. How about 2014 - for our children, economy, environment and homeland security.
Please push our big three automakers to accelerate the development of cleaner cars.
Sorry,I forgot to mention-have you ever seen an auto ad in which the driving is done in a conservative fuel saving way instead of tearing along the street or the back woods? Just what ever other driver should duplicate.
Mr. President, I have owned a 2001 Honda Insight for the last ten years and have averaged about 60 miles per gallon for the 66,000 miles I have driven. Don't you think that it's about time that we raised the bar for the nation to gain energy independence. My 2011 Nissan Leaf (electric vehicle) will be arriving in September of this year. Let's nudge the auto industry ahead...the technology is there!
Don't let the auto industry and climate change deniers control our future. Please push for higher mpg standards and help america be a leader in low emissions personal transportation. Keep your promises to build back up american science, math, and engineering and autos will be but a small part of the greatness we can achieve.
It is time we conserve our natural resources and reduce pollutants released into our environment. Mr President it is time we break away from the chains of the energy czars of America and move ahead with technology that has been buried for years, it is time we have automobiles that get at least 60 miles per gallon in conjunction with cleaner energy alternatives!
If the administration were to set strong standards targeting 60 mpg by 2025, this alone would nearly guarantee success in meeting the President’s stated goal to cut oil imports by one third by 2025. Making us less dependent on oil, we can also begin cleaning up our environment for a more healthy planet.
The auto bailout appears to have worked just fine. Now let them, in return for the bailout which let them continue to exist, support the coming 60 miles per gallon and they can make their cars more efficient - it's the RIGHT thing to do!
The auto bailout appears to have worked just fine. Now let them, in return for the bailout which let them continue to exist. They should support the coming 60 miles per gallon and they can make their cars more efficient - it's the RIGHT thing to do!
I am glad the auto bailout was successful and think that now is the time to increase fuel efficiency to 60 mpg so that we can be less dependent on oil and clean up the environment.
Most of the technology is available now,put it to work! On a different note-the auto industry operates on the premise that everyone buys or should buy a new vehicle each year, this is not true or even practical. Our primary car is 2 1/2 years old and is driven in a very careful manner-[coast when possible,etc]. The second is a 1996 half ton pickup and is used for jobs around the property, it also has 44,000 miles on it.
The auto bailout was wonderfully successful and we are all grateful. We can get even more bang for our buck, however, by increasing the standard MPG to 60. It's good for the environment and good for the economy.
The American people paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout and the best return on that investment would be a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, along with a greater focus on electric and hybrid technologies.
Govt. intervention that has put the U.S. auto industry back into competition in the national auto markets was remarkably successful. Now, let's reclaim our dominance in this market by producing the clean cars with 60 MPG capability that will cut fuel expenses, cut pollution, and put America ahead in creating new vehicle technologies and the jobs they create.
The return on our investment we want is a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, which will help relieve pain at the pump, cut pollution, and bring new vehicle technologies—and the jobs they create—to market.
I am really glad that the auto workers have jobs and the companies are making money again. Now let's develop even better cars - cars that don't need much gas or oil and do get good mileage. Even Mr. Bush acknowledged that we need to end our addiction to oil! Better cars could sell well at home and abroad.
Great. Glad to know they are doing fine. Now how about they give back and give us electric cars and higher MPG in gas operated vehicles. We don't need fast, high priced, gas guzzlers. We need cars that will pollute less, be more efficient and help get us off our oil addiction...not enable us to consume more!
The auto industry should have given us electric cars decades ago instead of selling out to the oil companies. Make sure they do the right thing this time as they owe us big time. It's time to stop supporting the oil industry, including their wars, altogether. And by the way, does Vilsak/his office ever actually show you any of the mail HE gets? Like the millions against Monsanto? Because you're way off on GMOs (I voted for you and am asking that you look at this yourself). Thank you.
An electric vehicle powered solely by a coal-fired plant produces less pollution than a single car with an internal combustion engine. The coal-fired plant can be easily replaced with solar, wind turbines, geothermal, hydroelectric or nuclear power while the internal combustion engine cannot.
We can have high quality, fuel effecient vehicles if we continue to focus on the product and view the profit as a secondary priority. Make a great product and the profits will follow, and as a bonus we won't contribute as much to climate change, pollution, etc...and we can be less beholden to OPEC
All good things come with being responsible and responsive !
They will be helping themselves by helping us if they engineer and the build the real cars of the future,at least 60 mpg (100mpg would be better) and no pollution. Also thinking outside the box and inventing new technologies that make fossil fuel use a thing of the past. I know they can do it. It's time to rock'n'roll!!!
Oh, speaking of MPG, the Nissan LEAF gets 106 MPGe in the city. Please encourage American automakers to make truly electric vehicles, and we won't ever have to talk about MPG again. We will be able to get on to the business of shutting down coal plants and building wind farms to provide our transportation energy. Thank you.
Since my tax dollar helped to bailout the auto industry, the least they can do is listen. I refuse to buy a new car until mileage and technology improve drastically. We need clean cars with at least 60 mph. Whether that comes from electricity or some other fuel, it's time the auto industry stepped up. We've been asking for this for at least thirty years!
Mr. President, thank you for supporting the electrification of our transportation by offering federal tax incentives to those of us who purchase Electric Vehicles. I just bought a Nissan LEAF, and could not be more satisfied and delighted with the car. It is quiet, roomy and fast. Best of all, I can "fill it up" from a standard 110v socket in my garage for $1.68. No, best of all was the $12,500 discount from federal and state EV incentives. Next year, LEAFs will be made in Smyrna, Tennessee.
Since we are all in this together, we supported the Big 3 in getting them back to being profitable businesses, now they in turn can give us what we need. Cars that are fuel efficient - 60 mi/gal and that meet the highest standards of emissions. I know they can do it.
My taxes helped bail out the American auto industry. Let's see them return the favor by raising standards of cleanliness and efficiency! Our dependence on gasoline (both foreign and domestic) is a costly vice– costly to people's health, to people who depend on driving to get to work, costly to our local and global environment, both urban and natural, and our national treasures and resources. It's long past time to get with the program and invest in clean and renewable energies!
The American Taxpayers have funded the auto bail out; in return we demand clean modes of transportation. Cars that get sixty mile per gallon would be a good start!
gasoline motors are old technology, noisy, dirty ,and use a fuel that damages the environment in its use and production. Give us clean fuel cars already! Give us 60mpg cars, other countries do it, we are not leaders, not even followers here...
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sidcabral 7 months ago
Since my rather ordinary, 4 cylinder '89 model car gets on average 42mpg, it seems like not too much to ask that efficiency should improve about 48% by 36 years out!
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Let's hold them accountable for vehicles that are climate friendly. They still owe us, maybe not in dollars but in a healthier environment!
neilcchs 8 months ago
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gregjalbert 8 months ago
We have the technology to be driving all-electric vehicles exclusively, and to be generating all our electricity from wind, solar and hydro. The auto makers are stuck in the 60's with their designs. We need a president who will use his leverage to require the auto makers to wake up to the changing times, and who will invest, as he promised, in renewable energy.
mmmmarcy 8 months ago
Dear President Obama,
Please use the political clout you have due to the bailout to press for much higher standards from the auto companies. By using the money they spend on lobbying to lower standards, they could research the problem, solve it and in the end lead the industry. I for one do not want to bail them out again in ten years because they refuse to be ethical. I would like to see some patriotism from them instead of greed. After all, our planet does have a problem.
SNBGMandR 8 months ago
The theoretical MPG limit is 150. Half of that is 75. We are already over 50MPG. Don't spend time whining about 60. If the US won't do it then the Japanese or Chinese will. When that happens the US consumers will buy Asian cars -- just like they did in the 1970s when the US automakers bauked at improvements. What happened to American exceptionalism?
voter708 8 months ago
Yes, it's great that we were able to save many jobs in the auto industry. The industry must reciprocate NOW by giving the taxpayers who bailed them out freedom from addiction to the gas pump. Stop focusing your money and effort on telling us you can't get us to 60 MPG, and focus on solving the problem. President Obama, please use the leverage of our auto industry bailout to move the industry NOW.
dogsnoseknows 8 months ago
The U.S. Auto Industry (especially Ford) has fought major gas mileage increases since the 70's. We've bailed out Chrysler and GM using our tax dollars. It's time they become a partner in alleviating the dependancy on oil of any kind and making clean cars available within the next ten years. Once again, the U.S. is behind in developing such. Why? Are they entrenched with the Oil companies? We can only speculate as they are so secrective. Demand change NOW in developing eco friendly cars.
MsReally01 8 months ago
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We the people bailed out Chrysler. I completely agree that in return on our investment we should have cars that get much better mileage, and 60 miles is well within our reach within the next two to five years.
lunapro2333 8 months ago
We the people bailed out Chrysler. I completely agree that in return on our investment we should have cars that get much better mileage, and 60 miles is well within our reach within the next two to five years.
WarnerSuz 8 months ago
The Chrysler bailout is just another example of Obama helping the super rich at the expense of the rest of us. How many promises must this guy break before the so called left wakes up? How many of the people commenting will even consider voting for a true progressive (ie third party candidate) in 2012?
JohnKesich 8 months ago
WE paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout. For this return on our investment we want a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, which will help relieve pain at the pump, cut pollution, and bring new vehicle technologies—and the jobs they create—to market.
Ambacaldwell 8 months ago
60 mpg by 2025? This is the United States! We can do WAY better than that. 60 mpg by 2015. All we have to do is stop using evil (war) as a foreign policy tool and quit bailing out large financial concerns that drove the global economy over a cliff while high on derivatives and credit default swaps.
paultuff 8 months ago
40 mpg by 2015
50 mpg by 2020
60 mpg by 2025
Also I live in a community/suburb that has very few sidewalks/bikeways; there is little respect nor safety for cyclists and/or pedestrians. Incentives and funding need to be implemented to address these issues.
seahorse05 8 months ago
Let's do it right now.
1) Stop subsidizing oil, institute a 60 miles per gallon standard for U.S. automobiles within the next 5 years - or 10 at the absolute most - with an interim 5 year goal in the range of 40 - 45 mpg.
2) Institute tax incentives to purchase the fuel efficient autos.
3) Allocate substantial funding to create and/or modernize mass, clean public transportation systems (not federal highways) including above ground rail/trolly cars, subways, and clean fuel busses.
wkw46 8 months ago
I am all for getting at least 60 mpg. "We are a people who don't give up, who do great things..."
geargirl485 8 months ago
If they really want to make themselves competitive, not just in the U.S., then you as President need to make the 60 miles per gallon standard the law for all car companies.
ConfidentialSage 8 months ago
Want to make more jobs? Get the 3 major automakers to make cars with at least 60 miles to the gallon and I'll buy a car!
AnnaLisa511 8 months ago
My tax $ paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout. The return on my investment should be a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, which will help relieve pain at the pump, cut pollution, and bring new vehicle technologies—and the jobs they create—to market.
TheRealBigWoo 8 months ago
I don't understand how this country can rationalize subsidizing oil companies. Likewise, we need 60 mpg cars, at the very least. Let us find the political will to do the right thing!
DianaEdd 8 months ago
Cut the subsidies to Big Oil! They're making a killing without it, and we're dying here at $+ gas.
seagazer101 8 months ago
Put 60 mpg where your mouth is: we the people bailed them out, now make them build cars that give people a better choice.
photophor 8 months ago
The Big 3 automakers need to take a turn a leaf out of the independent, small automakers' book (probably stealing ideas, but it'd be 'progress' nonetheless) and make much more fuel efficient, smaller cars. 60 mpg should be the standard, not the exception.
ubobchad 8 months ago
United States need to bring up the clean car standard to 60 mpg now.
MrCoolman48 8 months ago 2
To those who claim that government can't create jobs: talk to the hand. To Chrysler and GM: it's time to pay back the American taxpayers with a line of reliable, fuel-efficient and economical vehicles that will help wean us off our dependence on foreign oil.
w5vsi 8 months ago
Congratulations to Chrysler for their tremendous strides and repaying the government so quickly. Thanks President Obama for loaning them the money and not giving it outright. Now please end subsidies for oil companies. They don't need our help.
kathywinable 8 months ago
All we taxpayers paid for the auto industry bailout. The payback should include a 60 mph mileage standard by 2025. Oil reserves are shrinking, foreign oil requires us to prop up undesirable foreign regimes and our atmosphere is is becoming more CO2 toxic year by year.
gustan44 8 months ago
I think its critical the US takes the lead on sustainable energy, removes all energy dependence on foreign nations, and defines the path that the world will take to a cleaning, sustainable, and afforable energy future! Please continue to work to make this happen. Thanks!
gweiss27 8 months ago
Fuel efficiency needs to be job one and using E85 and making it readily available like regular gas, would lessen our dependence on oil.
Ramie1960 8 months ago
Let's put more people to work, lower our dependence on fossil fuels, and improve the environment by requiring a fuel efficiency of 60 mpg on new vehicles.
bigelowavenue 8 months ago
I would like to see more affordable electric cars & their infrastructure, including your fleet. I eagerly await to see solar panels on the roof of the White House. I want more support & protection for wild lands & wild life. Let's cut the tax breaks for the wealthy & big corporations; they need to pay their fair share.
Thank you Mr. President and Happy Father's Day.
Mitwell1 8 months ago
Vehicle efficiency secures our energy future: With oil prices now more than $100 per barrel, about $1 billion leaves our economy every day to pay for petroleum imports. By improving how our vehicles use fuel, we can lower over overall dependence on oil while creating jobs and cleaning up our air.
robotdl3 8 months ago
I paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout and the best return on that investment would be a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon.
Realmadatyou 8 months ago
Why does everyone keep saying "by 2025, we will be able to," or "we will have..." People, that is 14 years from now!! I think we can do better than that! I believe the only reason for such a delay is protection of the industries currently relying on fossil fuels for their profits. I believe we need new, creative policies that will help those companies convert quickly, and new ones emerge if they cannot or will not. They (and we) have known the score long enough now. Let's get cracking.
TeyunaSe 8 months ago
We bailed them out, now make 'em give us what we want - 60mpg fuel efficiency standard by 2025!!
dorianconnelley 8 months ago
What in the hell are we waiting for. I wanted mine in the 70's and I'm still waiting for an affordable electric car.
sparky7935 8 months ago
Doing so would reduce our nation's carbon footprint, create many American jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. It would also benefit evironmental conservation and endangered and threatened species: decreased demand for oil means decreased demand for drilling.
angelussnape 8 months ago
Our tax dollars have rescued the American car industry. Now we want a product that in line with the ideals and goals of 21st century America. We want a standard of at least 60 mpg, more hybrid and electric cars, and the infrastructure to handle this new demand.
angelussnape 8 months ago
good luck for obama
MrNanok86 8 months ago
We should convert all cars to electric. But if that's politically unfeasible, (quite a huge human disgrace if you ask me), we need vehicles that get at least 60mpg by 2025.
EnzymeProductions 8 months ago
Thank you, Mr. President, for all the hard, effective work you have accomplished so far. Now the auto industry is pushing hard on you to support weaker clean car standards than you have proposed. Do not cave in to the pressure. It would be the wrong thing to do. The auto industry is more interested in its Quarterly bottom line profit margin than it is in what's best for all Americans. 60 miles per gallon clean car standard by 2025 is good. just do it. Stockholders can stand a bit fewer $
12BReyn 8 months ago
60 mpg! You can do it like no one else! STEP UP! We are losing faith in you - we have hope, but not much that it will come from actions of yours!
felixomai 8 months ago
Please have the federal government require that new cars meet a fuel efficiency standard of 60 miles per gallon.
We, the taxpayers bailed out the car companies. We deserve fuel efficient cars for our money, which protect the environment, which save us money on fuel, and which prevent us from having to import oil from repressive foreign countries.
dif1212 8 months ago
We gave Big Auto a bailout when they needed it. Now they can do something for us - and for the planet. Let's reduce dependency on oil - both foreign and domestic- and move ahead with fuel efficiency.
raindelayshowfan1 8 months ago
It's a no brainer. Raising fuel efficiency on cars will save Americans billions of dollars and reduce the need for military spending to protect our Middle East oil supplies. Mr. President you have the resolve to lead us there and we support you.
TheJohnchap 8 months ago
Let's get on the turnpike to solar and hydrogen powered vehicles! A few days in California would convince anyone that pumping more fumes into the air is destroying our quality of life.
Johnbremerwork 8 months ago
Obama - you have the power to make all new cars drive at 60 miles per gallon!
ExtremeTMW 8 months ago
Clean car standards of 60 mpg will save consumers money and keep our money in the US instead of going to foreign oil suppliers. Clean Car standards will help prevent the calamitous destruction of our environment. We need Clean Car standards now.
JCDufresne59 8 months ago
My family wants clean air so that our children and their children can breath easy knowing that our actions now ensured their safety in the future. Increased fuel efficiency is just one step to attaining this goal. Please support high fuel efficiency cars for the American Public!
jansenmt15 8 months ago
What we really want and need is a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon you promised. The benefits are colossal, so what is the hold up?
Feredir28 8 months ago
It can be done it is being done and now you should push for clean energy vehicles that get at least 60 miles per gallon. This will have a great impact on not only our environment but on our economy. A true win win situation.
bobbyp21 8 months ago
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We could sure use clean energy vehicles able to travel enormous distances without using much fuel, but we'll settle for 60 mpg cars. The auto industry owes us, the tax payer this efficiency.
DrZen1946 8 months ago
We could sure use clean energy vehicles able to travel enormous distances without using much fuel, but we'll settle for 60 mpg cars. THe auto industry owes us, the tax payer this efficiency.
DrZen1946 8 months ago
We need those 60 mpg cars! Toyota's mishaps also had a lot to do with Chrysler's come back. Without higher mpg on the cars of the future their business will go down again.
flyingelphiemonkey2 8 months ago
Since we saved the auto industry, maybe they can return the favor by producing cleaner cars.
loosenut23 8 months ago
Yes, I know...my friends, family and I bailed these guys out, and we did not do that for the middle class losers in the housing-mortgage mess. The good news: many people in the auto manufacturing industry kept their jobs. I'm still sick over so many losing their houses, and when not derelict or moldering away, those houses still inhabitable are sitting empty, depreciating the market values in many, many neighborhoods. So, industry, yea? And, banks, yea? And, people, "losers", forgeddabout?
notcurious 8 months ago
America "could" be the leader in clean energy and clean cars! What's the holdup?
texasnelsons1 8 months ago
Where are the 60 mpg cars promised?
ghostdirewolf 8 months ago
Let's cut way back on production of the big gas hog pickup trucks. Ninety percent of these expensive, MASSIVE extra long-bed pickup trucks with a back seat are being used for commuting and family transportation. These trucks are too heavy and high above the road and are KILLING MACHINES in any accident with the smaller fuel efficient cars. They should be phased out except for documented commercial use. This will make it much easier to meet the 60 mpg target.
geuling 8 months ago
Yes the big three are back. What a shame they had to take our tax dollars to keep them in their private jets and cush positions with huge salaries and bonuses while the people who paid those taxes are still in such shape thanks to the greed of these businessmen and the congressmen they own. And we still have no serious work on alt. fuel vehicles or anything that might interfere with their insatiable greed and the workers who's money saved them are still in deep trouble.
ceMwah 8 months ago
Here's the thing: American auto manufacturers can do better. They always fight every government requirement tooth and nail. (think about seat belts and airbags) Then they knuckle down...and innovate. It's time for us to demand and them to respond. The American auto industry CAN develop vehicles that get 60 mpg and even better. So let's throw down that gauntlet and watch them shine!
catransom 8 months ago
Now that we've bailed them out it is time for them to make America stand strong and avoid control by foreign interests for oil or sacrifice the bounty of nature to the extraction industries who will sell it to the highest bidder... even our enemies. 60 MPG by 2025.. Yes We Can!
fergjo100 8 months ago
Thank you, Mr. President. You, and the legislators in Washington D.C. now have an even greater challenge! This country, and every citizen that lives in it, deserves a Federal Government that REALLY CARES about it's citizens. Our country, and every living creature living in it, are falling prey to Big Business. This isn't new news. Factory food dominates our markets and restaurants. Pharmaceutical's make obscene profits on drugs with worse side effects than the illness itself! Shame on DC!
fharrisincarp 8 months ago
We taxpayers paid to bail out the auto industry. It's time they used our money to provide the kind of vehicles we want: high efficiency, high mileage (60 + mpg) vehicles that run on all sorts of power - including sources that aren't in service yet. High speed rail systems will help, too, but let's galvanize the auto industry to really start innovating and stop with the same-old, same-old.
Thank you, Mr. President!
phpaint 8 months ago
Since billions of dollars of our tax money was spent to bail out two of the automakers, it is fitting and fair that the auto companies start building cars and light trucks that provide 60 mpg or better. Also, we need to focus more on producing electric vehicles. Moving forward with a rail system such as has been accomplished in Europe, Japan and other countries will both save money in the long run and reduce carbon emissions significantly. Let's move forward.
Thank you Mr President.
pwalters7391 8 months ago
Agreed with everyone else that has posted on this: we paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout and the best ROI would be a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon. Let's do it Mr. Prez!!!
ajtko 8 months ago
Thanks for saving my brother's job at Chrysler.
However,
Folks who don't want to change, work in that plant in Toledo and all over America. We need them to make electric cars and cars and trucks that get 60 mpg. We need you Mr. President, to lead us to a better future.
Also the only folks that benefit from manufacturing in China are America's ultra-rich. They moved our jobs overseas and I'll never forgive them.
I want the jobs back and the money to stay here where it belongs.
dugifiddler 8 months ago
After paying for that multi-billion-dollar bailout the American public deserves a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon
shaktimama 8 months ago
We paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout and the best return on that investment would be a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon.
picknage 8 months ago
We paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout. The best return on that investment would be a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon.
OYWPP 8 months ago
It now costs as much to fill up my Corolla as it used to cost to fill my Suburban and the Suburban sits in the garage. It would be a nice return on our investment in the auto industry if there was a mandatory 60 mpg requirement for 2025!!!!
RockinRobin43 8 months ago
The Prius today gets over 50 mpg without really trying. 60 mpg should be easily within reach. Up the mpg to 60 by 2020.
cjp129 8 months ago
You have the technology already needed to make cars get 60 mpg... The time is now for not giving up, but making this idea a reality! Together, we can save OUR Planet!
TheGreenthunder200 8 months ago
Hey, I drive a 1987 Toyota which gets 40 mpg on the freeway. How about supporting cars that get 60 mpg so I can trade in my old one? I'm WA-A-A-A-I-T-I-N-G !!!
catlest 8 months ago
This is good news but we all need more. The big 3 of the USA need to get ahead of the competition! The USA taxpayers (and the whole planet) deserve the ability to buy US-made vehicles that are plug-in hybrids that run 60 mpg when using gas. Mr. President, please require them to do so by 2020.
babakofi 8 months ago
With your emphasis on alternate forms of energy and better electric batteries for cars, requiring 60 Miles Per Gallon would help greatly. The Carbon Footprint would be lessened significantly and creating cars that used non oil-based fuels create jobs.
leslieann251 8 months ago
Since tax payers helped the auto industry to survive, it seems now is a good time to remind them to be good citizens and support, not fight, better fuel economy standards. I drive a twenty five year old Ford Escort deisel that still gets 45 mpg. If Ford could do this a quarter of a century ago, there is no reason GM and Chrysler couldn't make this a standard now. That old car got 60 mpg when it was new. There is no good reason this kind of standard is not across the board on new cars.
dand1212ify 8 months ago
I want to remind you just who paid for the multi-billion-dollar bailout. The return on our investment we want is a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, which will help relieve pain at the pump, cut pollution, and bring new vehicle technologies—and the jobs they create—to market.
drifiya 8 months ago
I'd certainly believe in the change you promised if you'd follow up on, among others, this issue. This is NOT a labor issue (except to the extent it produces jobs for the technology required). It IS about energy independence and cleaner air.
No brainer, don't you think?
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exlaw94music 8 months ago
Mr. President,
The American people, not special interests, not the right (whom you may feel a need to mollify), not members of your party, but the American taxpayer, paid for the multi-$B bailout. Our interest on that "loan" must be exemplary corporate citizens who adhere to a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon. Please make it happen.
dwg4077 8 months ago
We need more electric cars!!!
BirdCrist 8 months ago
They killed the GM EV-1 and it still beats out much of the performance of most of the "new" EVs by a significant margin. How can we believe in change when things are changing for the worse? Get us going full throttle to renewable energy autos and an infrastructure that supports it. Anything less will not be supported or believed. Do I sound like a cynic? Can one be cynical enough in these times?
rhythmeister44 8 months ago
Let's get to the 60mpg standard!
ldunlapmd1 8 months ago
Please be reminded that we taxpayers paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout and the best return on that investment would be a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon. There is no good reason to wait any longer to mandate 60 mpg vehicles. I just rented a Prius in California that go very close to that while driving in the Sierra foothills.
pgadams1 8 months ago
Please increase the mileage requirement to 60 mpg. We need to become less dependent on fossil fuels and this is a means of transitioning to not needing the automobile at all! Everything is necessary, though insufficient.
richardsba7651 8 months ago
I want a car that gets at least 60 miles to the gallon. And I it should also have very low tail pipe pollution. We bailed them out now they need to step up and help us cut pollution and use less fossil fuels for transporation.
MsJoanneday 8 months ago
The best thing the auto industry can do for consumers, for America, and for the earth is to raise its mph standard to 60 immediately. It is doable and it is smart. I urge you, Mr President, to do what you must to bring this about.
kneazlecat54 8 months ago
It is now important to invest a green car standard of 60 mpg by 2025. We must forge toward the entrepreneurial innovation that will free us from the death grip of big oil.
chimpanbeat 8 months ago
The American people paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout. The return on our investment we want is a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, which will help relieve pain at the pump, cut pollution, and bring new vehicle technologies—and the jobs they create—to market.
vbflyboy 8 months ago
There is no good reason we can't have a 60 mpg standard.
TheIppus 8 months ago
Dear Mr. President,
I support a return on our investment (auto bail out), we want a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon to start.
mlilof84 8 months ago
Might I remind you that WE paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout and the best return on that investment would be a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon.
blackwingbear 8 months ago
Dear Mr. President:
I too support a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon by 2025. Adopting such a standard would spark new innovation, create jobs, greatly reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and improve the environment. It's time to do this!
twflory 8 months ago
American citizens paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout. The return on their investment they want is a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, which will help relieve pain at the pump, cut pollution, and bring new vehicle technologies—and the jobs they create—to market.
hhabannahh 8 months ago
Mr. President,
I, and many other Americans voted for you because we believed in your campaign promise to help make America a "greener" country. It's time for you to make good on your promise by investing in technology for biofuels, hybrids, fuel cells, and better burning diesel and gasoline for automobiles. We are a nation which as grown mighty due to our innovative vision. Do not hold us back any longer! Invest in a more sustainable future, and you ensure that this nation will flourish.
ericrdallimore 8 months ago
Dear President Obama,
Let's be truly bold, truly innovative and truly take world leadership in auto technology by mandating a 60 mile-per-gallon standard by 2025. We CAN do it!! Will you lead us? Robert Dick, NYC
robertdick9 8 months ago
I want a car that uses water for fuel. Until that day arrives, it's essential we keep raising the bar on efficiency standards for gasoline engines. 60 mpg by 2025, the scientists tell us, is no stretch of the imagination. Let's go for it, not as a Hail Mary end zone shot, but as the absolute minimum we will accept. Reviving American manufacturing requires ambition; complacency just won't do in a global economy.
azlibdem 8 months ago
We paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout. The return on our investment we want is a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, which will help relieve pain at the pump, cut pollution, and bring new vehicle technologies—and the jobs they create—to market.
vrede420 8 months ago
My 1988 Mitsubishi still delivers 28.5 MPG in short stop city driving. When I was in Europe more than a decade ago, we drove a rented station wagon--larger than most cars there-- that was getting 40 MPG. Where are the fuel standards? Why does gas not have ONE standard so the costs come down instead of the patchwork? I can't vote for you again. All talk, never on point, always in rear waiting to step in last minute to look like you are in charge. Sick of it.
lovelyfishhead 8 months ago
Dear Mr. President, My 1994 Honda Civic is nothing to look at but still delivers 45 mpg on regular gas. When I bought it, I fully expected that, 17 years later, this country's auto fleet would routinely glean 65 miles out of a single gallon. If the industry could make an engine like that in the past century, then they've all got some explaining to do now. Younger generation believes that current models' mileage is great but we older folks compare everything every day.
frtoast42 8 months ago
Dear Mr. President,
American taxpayers bailed out the U.S. auto industry demanding they become competitive with cars manufactured elsewhere. Although our financial investment has mostly been re-paid, the best return on our risky investment would be to achieve a clean car standard of at least 60 miles per gallon, before 2025. They must be able to compete without requiring bailouts in the future, simultaneously reducing our dependence on foreign oil and reducing the buildup of greenhouse gases.
cosmoquark 8 months ago
Mr. President:
Thanks for your advocacy and action that greatly assisted in saving so many good middle class auto industry jobs,...and Thanks for your push for higher CAFE standards. Please continue that advocacy and legislation to push CAFE to 60MPG by 2025! Yes We Can Green Job our Economy!
Sincerely,
aknoxmax6 8 months ago
dear president obama,
please combine the revitalized auto industry, increasing use of petro fuels & their decreasing supply, global climate change, and the bp oil spill to justify higher required standards for auto efficiency by 2025.
sincerely,
maestro765 8 months ago
Dear Mr. President, please push for greater energy efficiency in our cars so that they reach 60 MPG by 2025. And please make it your top priority to support research, development and manufacturing in the USA.
literature2008 8 months ago
Hey President Obama, when are you going to support stronger MPG standards for cars? Your campaign called for strong environmental standards and green economy and you have failed to act on your campaign promises in a meaningful way.
clawar1 8 months ago
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"I want all vehicles to have better MPG mandates, period. The technology is there, but for unknown reasons, the auto industry does not want to give us what we want. 60 MPG is reasonable and would be a great return on our investment"
bosnion 8 months ago
We need stricter MPG standards, both for the environment and to ease the burden on consumers' pocketbooks for gas. Require higher standards, Mr. President!
scholarwannabe 8 months ago
More action, less talk!
ShaunWhiteismyGinger 8 months ago
The only way towards a greener future for our country is stricter CAFE standards. It's time the auto industry gave us better options with better fuel economy.
rynmccarthy 8 months ago
Mr. President, I can get 60 mpg on my 1992 Nissan pickup right now by adding a hydrogen generating system to it. In fact, I have it half installed. The science behind it is simple enough for any high school student to understand, and the cost of the kit is under $300.
jnicolpdx 8 months ago
I want all vehicles to have better MPG mandates, period. The technology is there, but for unknown reasons, the auto industry does not want to give us what we want. 60 MPG is reasonable and would be a great return on our investment
cancerdogboy 8 months ago
We the tax payers paid for the car bail-out so I am now asking that the car industries return the favor and start producing inexpensive 60 miles per gallon cars similar to the electric (w/gas extended range) Chevy Volt, which currently is too expensive even with the tax break. The technology exists, so make it the standard. Imagine, American cars would be ub demand all over the world if we could hit a 60 mpg standard and would boost the American car industry even more!
3948jeff 8 months ago
The spirit of Chicago is becomming difficult to sustain as so many issues are negotiated to the least common denominator. The people's money bailed the auto industry out and they owe us greater fuel efficiency in a shorter period of time. '60mpg' is what we deserve within thirty years. A sustainable future is a matter of life or death. This administration and these auto companies must make change happen, now.
gtalbot847 8 months ago
We bailed out the auto industry, the technology is their for 60mpg. Lets do it.
TerryP60 8 months ago
Dear Mr President; I believe that within 30 years the very concept of burning fuel to get things done will seem quaint and that everything will run on electricity generated mainly by solar technology. I may not live long enough to see that happen, but whether the technology and devices needed to do that are developed and built in the US or in some other country is up to you and whoever succeeds you. Please work to make that happen here.
molinkie 8 months ago
We need to teach & advance sustainable practices across our nation to create the future including fuel and energy efficiency, affordable transportation options and renewable energy investments. We need to honestly weigh the long term environmental and human risks and costs of standing on an economic only 1 legged stool. We need to stop externalizing costs to future generations. What about the precautionary principle? We need to build a sustainable future. Denial will not change this fact.
JiAn33 8 months ago
Dear President:
Lets go clean solar putting 3.9 million homes instead of nuclear. This would create
thousands of jobs and help us go to electric cars,
goddardwb 8 months ago
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Hey bo,
It is far better for people to think you are a fool than to open up your mouth and prove them correct!
LOOOOSER!!!!!!
travel1949 8 months ago
Dear Mr. President, When I think of the resounding gratitude and elation my friend described on election night in Chicago, and the enormous swell of pride so many millions of us were able to feel as Americans (pretty much for the first time in our lives), I am saddened. You have let us down. You have a choice to make, to go beyond the same old election politics, to do the right thing. YOu haven't done it. Why no solar panels on the White House? Why no 80mpg cars? It's hard to believe in you now.
heydancegirl 8 months ago
We bailed out the auto industry. We have the technology to drastically improve automobile fuel efficiency. The best return on our investment, for our country and our future, would be to have a policy that enforced a mandatory 60 mpg by 2014. Stand up to the lobbyist and stand up for the American people.
caialacour 8 months ago
I'm going to buy a Nissan Leaf. It's embarassing that American car companies aren't making electric cars yet.
crypticcolors 8 months ago
Better fuel economy (60 MPH by 2025) is nice--but it's not enough! We have brilliant and innovative automakers who can develop such a car selling at a reasonable price in half that time. Some of them already have (Ford has been selling them in Europe for years!) We simply must find a way to make it possible to improve gas mileage--because our environment won't let us postpone it. The weather this year is just a foretaste of what we can expect if we don't get climate change under control.
Tonyblack261 8 months ago
I agree mfcabrini that we must improve our gas mileage. There will be no earth to drive on if we continue using oil at this rate.
scdanzdiva 8 months ago
I'm glad for the return of jobs, but the gas mileage must improve. The technology is there; the will of the auto makers is lacking. Our tax money should be put to use on this issue.
mfcabrini 8 months ago
I'm willing to pay more for a car to pay less at the pump. We simply cannot sustain this oil economy - not for our economy, not for the earth, not for our children or our children's children. We need better fuel economy. A 60mpg standard sounds like a good place to start.
annem92029 8 months ago
Mr. President,
You are speaking in front of an American icon - the Jeep Wrangler 4x4. At best it gets 19 mpg. I drive a 19 year old Honda Civic VX that gets 50mpg. That's old technology and it outpaces anything made today.
Some are calling for a 60mpg standard by 2025. That's too far away. How about 2014 - for our children, economy, environment and homeland security.
Please push our big three automakers to accelerate the development of cleaner cars.
cfilipski1 8 months ago
We must get better mileage for new vehicles still using gasoline! We must!
suzys11 8 months ago
Increase the cafe standards to 50 or 60 mgp.
marklhessel 8 months ago
Sorry,I forgot to mention-have you ever seen an auto ad in which the driving is done in a conservative fuel saving way instead of tearing along the street or the back woods? Just what ever other driver should duplicate.
8ponies 8 months ago
Mr. President, I have owned a 2001 Honda Insight for the last ten years and have averaged about 60 miles per gallon for the 66,000 miles I have driven. Don't you think that it's about time that we raised the bar for the nation to gain energy independence. My 2011 Nissan Leaf (electric vehicle) will be arriving in September of this year. Let's nudge the auto industry ahead...the technology is there!
EVMLL 8 months ago
Don't let the auto industry and climate change deniers control our future. Please push for higher mpg standards and help america be a leader in low emissions personal transportation. Keep your promises to build back up american science, math, and engineering and autos will be but a small part of the greatness we can achieve.
jwg22 8 months ago
It is time we conserve our natural resources and reduce pollutants released into our environment. Mr President it is time we break away from the chains of the energy czars of America and move ahead with technology that has been buried for years, it is time we have automobiles that get at least 60 miles per gallon in conjunction with cleaner energy alternatives!
TheForestaPPB 8 months ago
If the administration were to set strong standards targeting 60 mpg by 2025, this alone would nearly guarantee success in meeting the President’s stated goal to cut oil imports by one third by 2025. Making us less dependent on oil, we can also begin cleaning up our environment for a more healthy planet.
minhtamfl 8 months ago
The auto bailout appears to have worked just fine. Now let them, in return for the bailout which let them continue to exist, support the coming 60 miles per gallon and they can make their cars more efficient - it's the RIGHT thing to do!
Mcsleepyplanet 8 months ago
The auto bailout appears to have worked just fine. Now let them, in return for the bailout which let them continue to exist. They should support the coming 60 miles per gallon and they can make their cars more efficient - it's the RIGHT thing to do!
Mcsleepyplanet 8 months ago
Please increase fuel efficiency to 60mpg.
WMcMullin 8 months ago
I am glad the auto bailout was successful and think that now is the time to increase fuel efficiency to 60 mpg so that we can be less dependent on oil and clean up the environment.
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jaymulberry 8 months ago
Most of the technology is available now,put it to work! On a different note-the auto industry operates on the premise that everyone buys or should buy a new vehicle each year, this is not true or even practical. Our primary car is 2 1/2 years old and is driven in a very careful manner-[coast when possible,etc]. The second is a 1996 half ton pickup and is used for jobs around the property, it also has 44,000 miles on it.
8ponies 8 months ago
The auto bailout was wonderfully successful and we are all grateful. We can get even more bang for our buck, however, by increasing the standard MPG to 60. It's good for the environment and good for the economy.
MsLynnWaters 8 months ago
The American people paid for that multi-billion-dollar bailout and the best return on that investment would be a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, along with a greater focus on electric and hybrid technologies.
nerdymike 8 months ago
Govt. intervention that has put the U.S. auto industry back into competition in the national auto markets was remarkably successful. Now, let's reclaim our dominance in this market by producing the clean cars with 60 MPG capability that will cut fuel expenses, cut pollution, and put America ahead in creating new vehicle technologies and the jobs they create.
bbmcgaff 8 months ago
We need to up each car mpg (not just a manufacturers avg.) to 60 mpg. Electric needs to come from clean sources: sun or wind , not coal. Act boldly.
Johampton15316 8 months ago
The return on our investment we want is a clean car standard of 60 miles per gallon, which will help relieve pain at the pump, cut pollution, and bring new vehicle technologies—and the jobs they create—to market.
b11nh2t 8 months ago
I am really glad that the auto workers have jobs and the companies are making money again. Now let's develop even better cars - cars that don't need much gas or oil and do get good mileage. Even Mr. Bush acknowledged that we need to end our addiction to oil! Better cars could sell well at home and abroad.
qvlc55 8 months ago
Great. Glad to know they are doing fine. Now how about they give back and give us electric cars and higher MPG in gas operated vehicles. We don't need fast, high priced, gas guzzlers. We need cars that will pollute less, be more efficient and help get us off our oil addiction...not enable us to consume more!
briansnj 8 months ago
The auto industry should have given us electric cars decades ago instead of selling out to the oil companies. Make sure they do the right thing this time as they owe us big time. It's time to stop supporting the oil industry, including their wars, altogether. And by the way, does Vilsak/his office ever actually show you any of the mail HE gets? Like the millions against Monsanto? Because you're way off on GMOs (I voted for you and am asking that you look at this yourself). Thank you.
UncleMalZ 8 months ago
The first sentence becomes obvious when you learn how efficient electric motors are, compared to gasoline powered engines.
llaumann 8 months ago
@wendyhunter405
An electric vehicle powered solely by a coal-fired plant produces less pollution than a single car with an internal combustion engine. The coal-fired plant can be easily replaced with solar, wind turbines, geothermal, hydroelectric or nuclear power while the internal combustion engine cannot.
llaumann 8 months ago
We can have high quality, fuel effecient vehicles if we continue to focus on the product and view the profit as a secondary priority. Make a great product and the profits will follow, and as a bonus we won't contribute as much to climate change, pollution, etc...and we can be less beholden to OPEC
All good things come with being responsible and responsive !
shawneeinthestix 8 months ago
It's time to put standards into place requiring a much more stringent MPH performance (50 or 60 MPH).
PoodleNinjaOfDeath 8 months ago
Great that the auto industry has turned around and paid back it's debts. Now, let's see them produce more fue efficient cars.
wendyhunter0405 8 months ago
They will be helping themselves by helping us if they engineer and the build the real cars of the future,at least 60 mpg (100mpg would be better) and no pollution. Also thinking outside the box and inventing new technologies that make fossil fuel use a thing of the past. I know they can do it. It's time to rock'n'roll!!!
gregleroy1 8 months ago
Good start! Now let's get a 60mph standard!!!
BTW, I DID vote for you :)
lesmorecats 8 months ago
Oh, speaking of MPG, the Nissan LEAF gets 106 MPGe in the city. Please encourage American automakers to make truly electric vehicles, and we won't ever have to talk about MPG again. We will be able to get on to the business of shutting down coal plants and building wind farms to provide our transportation energy. Thank you.
llaumann 8 months ago
@llaumann
Unfortunately, in many cases, electricity comes from coal-fired plants and the coal industry is a major polluter.
wendyhunter0405 8 months ago
Since my tax dollar helped to bailout the auto industry, the least they can do is listen. I refuse to buy a new car until mileage and technology improve drastically. We need clean cars with at least 60 mph. Whether that comes from electricity or some other fuel, it's time the auto industry stepped up. We've been asking for this for at least thirty years!
06kitkat07 8 months ago
Where is that "Clean Car"? I want 60 MPG.
My tax dollars paid for this bail out !
loretts54 8 months ago
Mr. President, thank you for supporting the electrification of our transportation by offering federal tax incentives to those of us who purchase Electric Vehicles. I just bought a Nissan LEAF, and could not be more satisfied and delighted with the car. It is quiet, roomy and fast. Best of all, I can "fill it up" from a standard 110v socket in my garage for $1.68. No, best of all was the $12,500 discount from federal and state EV incentives. Next year, LEAFs will be made in Smyrna, Tennessee.
llaumann 8 months ago
How about those "Clean Cars" 60 MPG??? We did bail them out after all....
kangabunnie 8 months ago
Since we are all in this together, we supported the Big 3 in getting them back to being profitable businesses, now they in turn can give us what we need. Cars that are fuel efficient - 60 mi/gal and that meet the highest standards of emissions. I know they can do it.
luchie03 8 months ago
My taxes helped bail out the American auto industry. Let's see them return the favor by raising standards of cleanliness and efficiency! Our dependence on gasoline (both foreign and domestic) is a costly vice– costly to people's health, to people who depend on driving to get to work, costly to our local and global environment, both urban and natural, and our national treasures and resources. It's long past time to get with the program and invest in clean and renewable energies!
sernaberna 8 months ago
The American Taxpayers have funded the auto bail out; in return we demand clean modes of transportation. Cars that get sixty mile per gallon would be a good start!
ntraum67 8 months ago
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gasoline motors are old technology, noisy, dirty ,and use a fuel that damages the environment in its use and production. Give us clean fuel cars already! Give us 60mpg cars, other countries do it, we are not leaders, not even followers here...
reachin2reachout 8 months ago