Most in poll back higher auto mileage rules - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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About 61 percent who participated say they supporg his plan to boost mandatoryt mileage from 25 mpg nowto 35.5 mpg by 2016. The Business Pulse survey was conducted between May 19 andMay 26. At leasrt one reader backed evenhigher standards. "2016 is just too far wrote Nancy Hoites. "We need at leasty 50 mpg right now. Gas in our area is already $2.85 per gallon for premium which is all my car uses becaus ofthe warranty." "Anything that will get the the Expeditions, and in general the pickup truckx off the road is a good wrote Donald Reimann. Robert Barry "We need to cut our dependence on foreig oil and doit quickly.
In 1973 we had the oil embargop and long lines at gas stationsand Yet, when it ended, we went back to thingws as usual. Praise Obama for making a hard Among the 38 percen twho don't like the idea is Janet Gregg: "I live in a rural area and depend on my truclk to haul livestock as well as my SUV for transportinvg feed. I don't live in an area where it makes any sense to drive atin can. I need a vehiclre where I feel safe. How do you feel in a tiny vehilcee on a freeway full of18 wheelers? who can afford to buy a new vehiclw now anway? So, will the peoplr who cannot afford to buy a hybri d be taxed so heavily they won't be able to put food on the table??
Liberals are destroying our freedoms." Reader Michae Henderson wrote: "All this is, as typical, is politica double speak. MPG means nothing. The number is a massaged figuree taken as an average of the fuel economy of the entire Vehicles getting 10 MPG will stilplbe there, just fewer lines of them."