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"I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil."
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"The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job."
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