Authority Quote by Lisa Murkowski

In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to…

— Michael Bloomberg

The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.

— Anthony Foxx

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government…

— Sherwood Boehlert

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

1973 was the first gasoline crisis in the world. That year, I designed the first aerodynamic truck, eating 40 percent less fuel. I put…

— Luigi Colani

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

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

— Mark Kirk

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

— Alan Mulally

They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.

— Lester R. Brown

I'm sure the gasoline companies would love to keep their 100 percent monopoly on transportation fuel.

— Chris Paine

Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because…

— Wendell Berry

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous…

— Jay Inslee