Green Republicans
Praise for the Senate's vote to raise fuel-efficiency standards comes by way of Republicans for Environmental Protection, a group whose motto, as the above image shows, is "Conservation is Conservative." The REP press release says:
"The benefits of enacting stronger fuel economy standards are too significant to be ignored. This is one of the biggest steps that Congress can take to reduce the burden of high gasoline prices for the American consumer. It is also the best thing that Congress can do to ensure that Detroit's automakers produce vehicles that can compete in the face of high energy prices," REP Government Affairs Director David Jenkins said."There is nothing conservative about waste. Energy conservation, the practice of minimizing waste, is something every conservative should support," Jenkins said.
And, of course, there's also a foreign-policy argument to be made that reducing gas consumption would choke off the revenue stream for Islamist terrorists.
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