A letter in the Sun-Sentinel: “in November, both houses of Congress decided that this [oil crisis] situation was a national security issue, and introduced almost identical bipartisan bills, whose purpose was to reduce our dependence on foreign oil (HR4409 and S2025). The bills would provide an array of policy initiatives from financial incentives to enable Detroit to invest in more efficient technologies, to ramp up production of hybrids, incentives to grow a new generation of fuels made from plants, flexible fuel vehicles to increase fuel choice, reduce diesel consumption, and more [...]
“Congress must move much faster [...] The public has to press its representatives for quick action. Get those bills into committee and voted on.”