Sen. Boxer: Big oil blocking fuel economy standards
By David Edwards
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski talked with Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) blamed “the auto industry teamed up with big oil” for a lack of increased fuel economy standatds.
Boxer said that lobbying efforts funded by big oil companies and car manufacturers are responsible for blocking legislation that would increase the average miles per gallon requirements for cars sold in the U.S.
Boxer believes that technology allowing higher fuel economy standards already exists. Boxer told Joe Scarborough, “The technologies are here. I mean, I’m driving a hybrid, we get over 50 miles per gallon. They have now the plug-in hybrid which is going to get 150 gallon miles a gallon.”
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