Barack Obama Pressured by Green Groups for 60MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard

According to new reports, environmental campaigners are doing whatever they can to get more modest goals set in the United States. These green groups are pushing for many things, but one of the main things that they are pushing for includes a fuel efficiency standard of 60 miles per gallon of gas.

Congested traffic in the United States is causing a lot of debt. Green groups are proposing ambitious fuel efficiency and pollution standards for cars all across the nation. America’s environmental groups have given up on getting climate change legislation through Congress at a time of Republican ascendancy. Thus, they have downsized to a series of more modest goals like fuel economy.

20 environmental groups have launched a new campaign this week to press Barack Obama to propose far more ambitious fuel efficiency and pollution standards. This is, of course, going to start with a 60 miles per gallon standard for cars by 2025.

During all of this, however, Clean Energy Works, which is a coalition of 80 grassroots groups that have 45 paid staff in Washington, is shutting up shop. This “rethinking” gets underway at a very dispiriting time for green energy.

Joe Mendelson, who leads the global warming campaign at the National Wildlife Federation, said that they are diversifying their strategy into a building block approach as opposed to looking at a single focus of a comprehensive bill. This is because, obviously this year it does not appear it will happen. It is not clear what is going to happen next year as well. Thus, they are going to focus more on the individual building blocks that get people to where they need to be, and that is emissions.