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That’s the average fuel economy of new vehicles purchased in the U.S. during the month of February, according to the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. The good news: that’s a record for the highest fuel efficiency of newly purchased cars, just besting the figure from the month before. The bad news? 23.7 mpg is [...]
Many of President Obama’s progressive supports have soured on him in recent months, as the debt crisis and a Republican House has forced him to embrace deep spending cuts, and environmentalists are among them. There’s still unhappiness among greens over the White House’s perceived failure to push hard for carbon cap-and-trade legislation—legislation that was a major [...]
Environmentalists can take President Obama to task for more than a few disappointments over the first two years of his Administration—and some of them have—but one area where the White House has fulfilled its green pledges is in auto fuel efficiency. In May 2009 Obama brokered a deal with the auto industry that saw Corporate [...]
