Appliances Quote by Sherwood Boehlert

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