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A 1.5 litres/100km (3 mpg) increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968.35 cubic metres (41,994,994.53 US gallons) of oil a day.

— Ernest Moniz

“By 2008, new U.S. autos averaged a miserable 23 mpg on the road. No wonder America’s best-selling vehicle in 2008, the Ford F150 pickup…

— Amory Lovins

We need more expensive gasoline to change consumer behavior," Mr. Jackson said. Otherwise, Americans will continue to favor big vehicles, not matter what kind…

— Michael J. Jackson

Choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicles within a class can save drivers at least $1,500 in fuel costs and avoid more than 15 tons of…

— Carol Browner

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

Did we put our kids in 0.5-mile-per-gallon (mpg) tanks and 17 feet per gallon aircraft carriers because we failed to put them in 32-mpg cars?

— Hunter Lovins

I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon.

— Alexandra Paul

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

We think there's a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way.

— Freeman Thomas

I had a van that I customized so I could basically live out of that while I traveled and then I graduated to an…

— Matthew McConaughey

While I may not agree with all of President Obama's energy policies, I strongly supported his successful effort to double fuel economy standards for…

— Bernie Sanders

You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers…

— Mark Z. Jacobson