We need your help to push for an increase in gas mileage standards. There is more momentum for this solution than ever but the Bush administration and Congress have proposed sham solutions such as $100 rebates to gas buyers and increased drilling in pristine wilderness areas.

We know that the real solution is simple: cars that get better gas mileage. If we increased gas mileage standards, we could cut global warming pollution by 1.8 billion tons over the next 10 years.

Please take a moment to ask your representative to raise gas mileage standards to 40 mpg by 2015. Then ask your friends and family to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.

To take action, click here or paste this link in your Web browser:

http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/actio...andards2?id4=ES


BACKGROUND:

Our over dependence on oil is causing a host of profound problems for society. The impacts include beautiful wilderness destroyed by oil drilling, beaches marred by oil spills, national parks choked with smog, and global warming.

But it doesn't have to be this way. New technology exists today that would make our cars and trucks go much farther on a gallon of gas, a simple solution that would reduce our dependence on oil. The average car on the road today gets less than 21 miles per gallon (mpg)--that's less than the Model T. Yet, according to the National Academy of Sciences, modern technology would allow our cars and light trucks to get double the gas mileage. In only 10 years, we could increase the gas mileage standards to 40 mpg.

By increasing standards to 40mpg in the next 10 years we would see a host of benefits:

* We would save more oil than America imports from the Persian Gulf and from drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, combined.

* A 20 percent decrease in the global warming pollution from passenger vehicles by 2016.

To accomplish this goal we need your help. Please take a moment to ask your representative to raise gas mileage standards to 40 mpg by 2015. Then forward this message to your friends and family and ask them to do the same.

To take action, click here or paste this link in your Web browser:

http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/actio...andards2?id4=ES

Sincerely,

Dan Jacobson
Environment California Legislative Director
DanJ@environmentcalifornia.org
http://www.EnvironmentCalifornia.org

P.S. Thanks again for your support. Please feel free to share this e-mail with your family and friends.