So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or…

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles…

— Ed Markey

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society,…

— Thomas Jefferson

If you have to improve your fuel efficiency every year, it leads to innovation.

— Alan Mulally

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that…

— Sherwood Boehlert

I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool…

— Sherwood Boehlert

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is…

— Sherwood Boehlert

Statutory authority to improve fuel economy has existed for 35 years at the Transportation Department, and it still exists today.

— Lisa Murkowski

We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of needing an…

— James Howard Kunstler

“A quick way to improve food-related fuel economy would be to buy a quart of motor oil and drink it.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Feebates make efficient autos cheaper to buy and inefficient autos costlier.79 Buy a fuel hog and you’d pay an up-front fee, right on the…

— Amory Lovins

Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments…

— Bob Lutz

In the luxury segment, if we just focused on fuel economy, that wouldn't be enough.

— Robert M. Carter

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards…

— Ed Markey

Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just 3 miles…

— Ed Markey

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

— Jan Schakowsky