On October 23, 2009
EPA Transportation and Air Quality Chief Talks to BNET Autos About 35.5 MPG
Margo Oge , a Toyota Prius driver, is the director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s office of transportation and air quality, and she sat down with BNET Autos just after a public hearing on the EPA and Department of Transportation’s proposed standards mandating that cars sold in the U.S. reach 35.5 mpg by 2016. The standards are an updating of the 30-year old (and stagnant for 20 of them) Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) rules, but with reducing climate change added as part of the goals. The EPA is hoping for cars to reach 250 grams of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide per mile, which is virtually the same thing as 35.5 mpg. Contrary to conventional wisdom that predicted the automakers…
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