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Higher Gas Prices Alone Won’t Make Cleaner Cars a Reality
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DC.Streetsblog.org
Nov. 20, 2009
By Elana Schor
…In real pollution terms, that means the average American car will emit just 2 grams fewer CO2 per mile this year than it did in 2008. For Dan Becker, a longtime environmental advocate who directs the Safe Climate Campaign, that paltry progress is an argument for stronger, consistent increases in the nation’s fuel-efficiency and emissions standards….
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