Comments on: EPA Fuel Efficiency http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3547 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John Vermylen http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3547&cpage=1#comment-1442 John Vermylen Tue, 02 Aug 2005 14:31:58 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3547#comment-1442 To answer your question regarding Nancy Johnson's EPA testing bill, language from her original bill was just passed in the big Energy Bill. While all the findings from the second section of Johnson's bill were left out, the following section from her original bill was included in the original House version and was left in the final energy bill as well: "The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall update or revise the adjustment factors in sections 600.209-85 and 600.209-95, of the Code of Federal Regulations, CFR Part 600 (1995) Fuel Economy Regulations for 1977 and Later Model Year Automobiles to take into consideration higher speed limits, faster acceleration rates, variations in temperature, use of air conditioning, shorter city test cycle lengths, current reference fuels, and the use of other fuel depleting features." This is from Section 774 of the final bill. I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more coverage in the mainstream press or on the blogs. Perhaps it will not be enforced or will be ignored by the EPA, but if the standards are revised it could do more to raise fuel economy and decrease gasoline consumption than anything else in the energy bill, although that isn't necessarily saying much. To answer your question regarding Nancy Johnson’s EPA testing bill, language from her original bill was just passed in the big Energy Bill. While all the findings from the second section of Johnson’s bill were left out, the following section from her original bill was included in the original House version and was left in the final energy bill as well:

“The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall update or revise the adjustment factors in sections 600.209-85 and 600.209-95, of the Code of Federal Regulations, CFR Part 600 (1995) Fuel Economy Regulations for 1977 and Later Model Year Automobiles to take into consideration higher speed limits, faster acceleration rates, variations in temperature, use of air conditioning, shorter city test cycle lengths, current reference fuels, and the use of other fuel depleting features.”

This is from Section 774 of the final bill. I’m surprised this hasn’t gotten more coverage in the mainstream press or on the blogs. Perhaps it will not be enforced or will be ignored by the EPA, but if the standards are revised it could do more to raise fuel economy and decrease gasoline consumption than anything else in the energy bill, although that isn’t necessarily saying much.

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