[PAA-Discuss] Good Gas Mileage: Where's Your Rep?

[RandyS]

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>Subject: [PAA-Discuss] Good Gas Mileage: Where's Your Rep?
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>Dear Friend,
>
>I just signed a petition urging my Representative to support a
>sensible approach to fuel economy standards. It's the bipartisan
>Markey-Platts bill, and it will help curb global warming, save
>us money at the pump, and make us more secure. 
>
>But it won't happen unless we can get more Representatives to
>support it.
>
>Click here to tell your Representative to support the
>Markey_Platts bill!
>http://action.lcv.org/campaign/fueleconomy_support
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>->http://action.lcv.org/campaign/fueleconomy?rk=3dzEpzF1oFKcW
>

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A step in the right direction = 

http://markey.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2688&Itemid=141
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, with Rep. Todd Russell Platts (R-PA), member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Labor, and Government Reform Committees, and a bi-partisan group of 40 other Members of Congress, today introduced legislation that will require vehicles classified as cars and light trucks to improve their fuel economy standards by at least 4 percent every year. By 2018, the fuel economy standards of the automotive fleet must be at least 35 miles per gallon, an improvement of about 10 miles per gallon from current levels.

A copy of the Bill and a list of the original co-sponsors can be found here:

http://markey.house.gov/docs/energy_environment/CAFEbill6.pdf
http://markey.house.gov/docs/energy_environment/2007OriginalCosponsors2.doc

ORIGINAL CO-SPONSORS OF 
MARKEY-PLATTS FUEL ECONOMY REFORM ACT


1.Todd Platts
2.George Miller
3.Mark Kirk
4.Charles B. Rangel
5.Mary Bono
6.Barney Frank
7.Frank R. Wolf
8.Tom Lantos
9.C.W. Bill Young
10.John Lewis
11.Peter T. King
12.Anna Eshoo
13.Tom Davis
14.Joe Sestak
15.Wayne T. Gilchrest
16.Hilda L. Solis
17.Michael N. Castle
18.Diana DeGette
19.Jim Gerlach
20.John W. Olver
21.Christopher Shays
22.Albert Russell Wynn
23.Jim Ramstad
24.Lois Capps
25.Frank A. LoBiondo
26.Anthony Weiner
27.David G. Reichert
28.Darlene Hooley
29.Jim Saxton
30.Jay Inslee
31.Christopher H. Smith
32.G. K. Butterfield
33.Steven C. LaTourette
34.Paul Hodes
35.Roscoe Bartlett - KNOWN to be a VOCAL advocate of Peak Oil issue and climate change issue
36.Carol Shea-Porter
37.John R. “Randy” Kuhl, Jr.
38.Thomas E. Petri
39.Raul M. Grijalva
40.Chris Van Hollen
41.Frank Pallone, Jr.