Press Mention The News-Sentinel March 13, 2002
SACE Quoted
Big vehicles win reprieve
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The Senate rejected a proposal to require automakers to produce vehicles with 50% better fuel economy by 2015, instead directing the Transportation Department to develop new rules over two years. Stephen Smith, director of the Knoxville-based Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, argued that hybrid cars represent the future and that reducing gasoline consumption would help address air pollution affecting the Great Smoky Mountains.
One of major sources of air pollution that is harmful to the Smokies is automobile exhaust. Certainly, a reduction in gasoline consumption would help with that problem.
Stephen A. Smith
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