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Cleaner Cars to Drive Down our Gas Bills by 10% under Climate Bill

November 15, 2009

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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americanpetroleuminstitute, API, cafestandards, cleancars, presidentobama, waxmanmarkey

While the oil lobby continues its gas attack on climate legislation, a recent government study suggests that accelerating CAFE standards under the Waxman-Markey climate bill would actually lower our gas bills by more than 10% over the next two decades...continued→

API Climate Study Fails to Demonstrate Need to Increase Refiner Allocations

August 26, 2009

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
americanpetroleuminstitute, API, carbonrisk, climateandenergy2009, complimentarystandards, markettransformation, oilrefiners, waxmanmarkey

An American Petroleum Institute study released this past week makes three rather deceptive claims about the impacts of climate change policy on the oil refinery industry in the US. The first claim is that legislation to cap carbon emissions will cause a large...continued→