Sep 10, 2003
American ignorance at its best:
"This is still America, isn't it? Don't make the American people drive this little runt of a car," Senator Trent Lott (R-Miss.) barked as he stood in front of a small, light, fuel-efficient vehicle in Washington.
That was July 29, the same day the Senate, by a vote of 65 to 32, trash-canned an amendment to the yet-to-be-enacted energy bill that would have raised the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) standard for carmakers to 40 miles per gallon by 2014, up from the 27.5 mpg that has been on the books since 1975.
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