Toyota is Taking from Prius to Pay for Tundra

Toyota is Moving Backward in its environmental record by opposing increases in fuel efficiency. Toyota should support the bipartisan Senate compromise to increase fuel economy standards in the U.S. to 35 miles per gallon by 2020.  Be sure to  sign the petition over at  www.energybill2007.org

• Worldwide, Toyota has worked to cultivate a “green” reputation but Toyota isn’t acting green in Washington, DC where its lobbyists are trying to weaken, delay, or eliminate a bipartisan Senate measure to achieve greater fuel efficiency in the U.S.
• New fuel efficiency standards would save about 1.2 million barrels of oil per day by 2020 (more than half of current U.S. oil imports from Persian Gulf)
• New fuel efficiency standards would save Americans $25 billion in gas costs AND prevent over 200 million tons of global warming pollution from entering the atmosphere each year.
• Since Toyota has the proven technology and engineering capability to reach 35 mpg by 2020, it is a mystery why they would try to defeat this important measure.
• Toyota should match its green rhetoric with real action and support the bipartisan Senate compromise to increase fuel efficiency and that is why we have mounted this event today.
• Toyota shouldn’t say one thing to consumers like us and another to our government.