Higher CAFE standards loom as Detroit 3 fight for survival

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By Harry Stoffer

Nov. 17, 2008

 

…One such advocate, Dan Becker, said he has been lobbying congressional offices to require any aid recipient’s vehicles to average 40 mpg by 2015 — nearly 60 percent higher than today.

"That’s my benchmark," said Becker, formerly of the Sierra Club and now director of the advocacy group Safe Climate Campaign….

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