Direct controls on emissions, for instance through vehicle fuel-efficiency standards, are being tightened around the world.
New government rules require new vehicle fuel efficiency to average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
The report projects that by 2040, alternative fuel vehicles will consume about 13.7% of our light-duty vehicle fuel.
What legislation gives the EPA authority to regulate vehicle fuel economy, or attach that issue to climate change?
Biden said he would do away with tax cuts on the wealthy, increase vehicle fuel efficiency and improve education.
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On Wednesday, President Bush signed an energy bill that raises vehicle fuel economy standards by 40% and boosts biofuel production.
It includes the first increase in vehicle fuel economy standards in decades, which Detroit finally succumbed to earlier this month.
Combined with an increase in the sale of diesel, total vehicle fuel sales fell by 9% over the past five years.
The organization's Web site, cleanskies.org, touts the benefits of natural gas as the "natural partner" for renewable fuels and its potential as a vehicle fuel.
First, it increases vehicle fuel efficiency to a fleetwide average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, up from the current level of 25 mpg.
Mr. Perciasepe helped negotiate vehicle fuel-economy rules during Mr. Obama's first term and is viewed by both sides as a person who seeks common ground.
Households have cut back on vehicle fuel over the past decade, but not on household gas, according to an analysis by the Office for National Statistics.
After weeks of intense deal-making, the House of Representatives on Thursday approved a landmark energy bill boosting subsidized biofuel production and raising vehicle fuel economy standards by 40%.
For the Chinese government, reducing vehicle fuel consumption is pressing.
We must reduce our dependence on oil by requiring better vehicle fuel economy, and by increasing the use of alternative fuels and innovative transportation technology such as plug-in hybrids.
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It identified a number of issues including little affordable housing, more expensive vehicle fuel and higher prices in local shops which all contributed to a higher cost of living.
It's similar to a proposal by the Bush administration, which calls on Congress to drop a requirement that the Energy Department's loans be used for investments in vehicle fuel efficiency.
In addition, the new timeline for fuel economy standards is more aggressive than the one required under a 2007 energy law, which mandated a 40% increase in average vehicle fuel economy by 2020.
The average vehicle fuel efficiency has increased significantly.
And the grumbling about vehicle fuel economy is getting loud enough that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is coming under pressure to change the way the fuel economy numbers are calculated, something it hasn't done since 1984.
The Senate's version of the bill would raise vehicle fuel-economy standards to an average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020 and increase production of ethanol and other biofuels by more than 600% by 2022 and criminalizes price-gouging by oil companies.
It develops anaerobic digesters that convert organic waste into biogas used to generate electricity, heat, natural gas and motor vehicle fuel (CNG). quasar already operates eight facilities in Ohio, and several more are in process in the Buckeye State and elsewhere.
Almost as soon as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency started mandating, in 1975, that vehicle fuel economy be posted on the stickers of new cars, the agency was hit with complaints from drivers: They weren't getting nearly the fuel economy the stickers suggested they should.
The solution is to provide something currently missing in our transportation sector - vehicle and fuel choice.
The Vehicle and Fuel Choice bills would provide incentives to expand greatly the availability and access to such fuels.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, for instance, found that factoring in infrastructure construction plus vehicle and fuel production increased total emissions for various modes of transportation, particularly train.
By measuring the carbon compounds spewed out during the test, automakers can figure out how much fuel was spent and, subsequently, the vehicle's fuel economy.
Car companies in America get a fuel-economy credit for every flex-fuel vehicle they sell.
Companies like Ford are realizing that there is more to an eco-friendlier vehicle than simply fuel efficiency.
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