> -----Original Message----- > From: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 07:58 PM > To: Mark C. Brighton > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Bush vs. Clinton on CAFE > > > At 04:58 PM 2/5/2003 -0800, Mark C. Brighton wrote: > >C'mon, "imposed by the Clinton administration"? As if he ruled by > >fiat. CAFE is part of the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act > >(EPCA). Only congress has the power to change it. > > Still, if Bush succeeds in his proposal, he will have done > more to raise > the CAFE in three years than Clinton managed in eight. > > If nothing else, it would make a lot of this hysteria from > environmentalists about the Bush Administration being "at war > with the Earth" to look even sillier than it already does.
Because he raised the MPG rating by a single pip? Please. How about closing the exemptions in law that allows SUVs to be classified as "light trucks"? If he did that, then he might be seen as more "eco-warrior". > Still, it would be interesting to see what CAFE standards > Clinton seriously proposed once he was in office - as opposed > to on the campaign trail trying to unseat an incumbent. I would, too. I'd also like to be reminded of the numbers in Congress, who voted against what bills, who got oil & car industry money, and what kind of numbers for SUV usage there was in 1992. That would start to give us a better picture of what actually happened the past 10 years irt SUVs and fuel economy, instead of trying to pin every evil on Clinton. -j- _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
