Automobile Efficiency Quotes

There has always been at each decisive period of the world’s history some voice, some note, that represented … prevailing power …. And now finally, there was heard in the streets the murmur of the newest and most perfect of forces, the automobile, rushing along at the rate of 25 miles and hour.

There isn't enough renewable fuel in the world to crack our growing addiction to foreign oil. We need to decrease miles driven and increase engine efficiency.

I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool.

Automobile efficiency is the ballgame of energy security of the country.

The Transportation Empowerment Act paves the way for better roads, easier commutes, and more family time.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.

The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient.

Protecting the automobile industry has always been a very difficult and very necessary task that I have had to undertake.

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.

Consumers want safe and really efficient automobiles.

Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.