Senate passes energy bill, boosting mileage standards
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/....ap/index.html
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The Senate passed an energy bill late Thursday that includes an increase in automobile fuel economy, new laws against energy price-gouging and a requirement for huge increases in the production of ethanol
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A requirement to produce 36 billion gallons a year of ethanol, as a substitute for gasoline, by 2022, a sevenfold increase over production in 2006. Ethanol would be made from corn and cellulosic sources such as prairie grass and wood chips.
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Do You think the oil giants need to worry. If we don't need oil as much they can't make the big bucks.
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