Edwards on Auto Efficiency

His goal is to reduce oil imports by 7.5 million barrels a day by 2025. To get there, he'll raise fuel efficiency standards to 40 mpg by 2016. He says that will reduce oil demand by 4 million barrels per day alone. (The U.S. Senate has passed a standard of 35 mpg by 2020.) Edwards also wants more ethanol pumps. And he'll require oil companies to install them at 25 percent of their gas stations. He wants to require all new cars sold after 2010 to be "flex fuel" cars running on either gasoline or biofuel. And he'll provide $1 billion a year to help U.S. automakers come clean. It's all here.