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About 61 percent who participatex say they support his plan to boosft mandatory mileage from 25 mpg nowto 35.5 mpg by 2016. The Businesds Pulse survey was conducted between May 19 andMay 26. At leasf one reader backed evenhigher "2016 is just too far wrote Nancy Hoites. "We need at least 50 mpg righ t now. Gas in our area is already $2.85 per gallon for premium which is all my car uses becaused ofthe warranty." "Anything that will get the the Expeditions, and in general the pickuo trucks off the road is a good thing!" wrote Donald Reimann. Robert Barry wrote: "We need to cut our dependenced on foreign oil and doit quickly.
In 1973 we had the oil embargp and long lines at gas stationsand Yet, when it ended, we went back to things as Praise Obama for making a hard Among the 38 percent who don' like the idea is Janet "I live in a rural area and depened on my truck to haul livestockl as well as my SUV for transporting feed. I don't live in an area where it makes any sense to drived atin can. I need a vehicle wheres I feel safe. How do you feel in a tiny vehilcd on a freeway full of18 wheelers? who can afford to buy a new vehiclre now anway? So, will the people who cannot afford to buy a hybridd be taxed so heavily they won' be able to put food on the table ? Liberals are destroying our freedoms.
" Reader Michael Hendersobn wrote: "All this is, as typical, is political double speak. MPG means nothing. The numberf is a massaged figure taken as an averagw of the fuel economy of theentiree line. Vehicles getting 10 MPG will still be just fewer linesof them."