President Bush will lay out a bold plan in his State of the Union tonight for Americans to cut their consumption of all gasoline by 20 percent over the next 10 years, ABC News has learned.
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Such a dramatic reduction in gasoline consumption would require new standards of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy system, known as CAFE, and an increased availability in the U.S. auto market of vehicles that run on alternative fuels.
We’ll see whether this is an actual plan with CAFE requirements (which Republicans have rejected for years) or just another of those voluntary goals.
Call me a cynic, but I don’t believe Bush would push for any energy policy which wasn’t supported by Oil, Inc. Is this an implicit signal from big oil that current levels of oil consumption are unsustainable? That, based on current growth models, production won’t be able to meet demand in five or ten years? I don’t think Bush is proposing this for the fun of it. And we know that conservation is just a virtue, not an energy policy.
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