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Looking for more fuel efficiencies in motor vehicles

December 19, 2007 By WRN Contributor

President Bush has signed a law today increasing fuel efficiency standards. However, a state legislator wants Wisconsin to go a step further.

The new federal law requires cars and light trucks to get an average of 35 miles a gallon by 2020. State Representative Spencer Black (D-Madison) thinks Wisconsin should do better, and do it much sooner.

Black is introducing a bill that would require Wisconsin to join the list of states that are going with the "California standard" for fuel efficiency. It would call for a 40 percent increase in miles per gallon within four years. That would be eight years earlier than the new federal law. 

AUDIO: John Colbert reports (MP3 :34)

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