Archives: Mary E. Peters
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April 2008
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CAFE Craziness
From Automobile Blog | April 24, 2008Mary Peters, the secretary of the Department of Transportation, chose Earth Day to announce the new proposed Corporate Average Fuel Economy... more
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Industry Doesn’t Heart New CAFE Standards
From The Truth About Cars | April 23, 2008Transportation Secretary Mary Peters unveiled 2015 CAFE standards yesterday in a shameless media event an Earth Day celebration. The new standards... more
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New CAFE Rules Would Require 31.6 MPG by 2015
From Green Car Advisor | April 22, 2008The nation's automobile manufacturers would have to raise fleet-wide fuel economy standards by 25 percent to 31.6 miles per gallon by... more
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Midterm CAFE Targets to be Announced for Earth Day
From Winding Road | April 22, 2008Happy Earth Day! Let’s use less oil! Department of Transportation Secretary Mary Peters is expected to make an announcement today on “protecting... more
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Business, in brief
April 15, 2008
From Los Angeles TimesU.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters is examining why thousands of American Airlines passengers were stranded last week as the department... more
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U.S. Transportation Secretary wants to drop gas taxes in favor of...
From AutoblogGreen | April 7, 2008Filed under: Legislation and Policy, USAIf the goal is to incentivize people to use less petroleum does it really make sense to reduce the... more
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U.S. Sec. of Trans: Ditch Gas Tax for Road Pricing
From The Truth About Cars | April 6, 2008The Seattle Times reports that the U.S. Secretary of Transportation wants to lower federal gas taxes. The bad news: Mary Peter wants to replace... more
