Help curb oil addiction

I wrote a couple of days ago about the need to reduce our dependancy on fossil fuels. One way would be to get congress to improve fuel economy standards which enforce a minimum miles-per gallon (mpg) standards on light trucks and cars. The corporate average fuel economy is currently 27.5 mpg for cars and 20.3 mpg for light trucks (doesn't include heavy SUVs and trucks). Wikipedia has some interesting facts that in 2002 the following manufacturers decided not to meet the standard and instead paid penalties. BMW, DaimlerChrysler (import fleet only), Fiat, Lotus and Porsche failed the automobile CAFE requirement, while BMW and Volkswagen failed to meet the light truck requirement. (source Wikipedia).

Please take a moment to send Bush a letter which urges him to improve our standards on vehicle fuel-economy. All you need to do is provide your name and email address at this site.

When your done browse through this site to learn more about America's oil-dependancy with such facts as:
- Cars and trucks consume 40 percent of the oil America uses and light trucks account for half of that.
- The technology for achieving better gas mileage is available now, and polls show that the vast majority of Americans favor increasing fuel efficiency.
- Most/Least efficient cars
- drill deeper into cost effective CAFE targets