Consumer advocates want the Obama administration to raise average fuel economy standards to 45 mpg by 2020, citing the availability of necessary technology and public concern about gasoline prices. The administration has proposed raising fuel-efficiency requirements 40 percent - to 35.5 miles per gallon - by 2016 for cars and light trucks combined. It plans to adopt final rules in April.
"We want to make sure we don't just rest on the 2016 numbers and that we're prepared today, and get the industry to prepare, to move substantially beyond 2016," Jack Gillis, a Consumer Federation of America spokesman and author of The Car Book, told reporters on a conference call today.
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