# Record High Memorial Day Gas Prices – Major Ad, Web Push This Week for 60 MPG Standard

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- Published: 2011-05-24T17:00:48-04:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

**WASHINGTON, D.C.//May 23, 2011/** As Memorial Day gas prices approached a 10-year
record-high level, Go60MPG today is launching a major print and online advertising
campaign encouraging Americans to deliver the message to the White House that the
best way to offer relief at the gas pump is to deliver fuel-efficient vehicles that
get 60 miles per gallon by 2025. (See chart below.)

Strong pollution and fuel efficiency standards will save gas-price weary Americans
an extra $370 billion by 2030 compared to the weakest proposal. These standards 
will also cut America’s oil dependence by at least 44 billion gallons of fuel and
eliminate at least 465 million metric tons of heat-trapping carbon pollution in 
2030.

**_Gas prices in May so far are higher than in the past ten years, averaging $3.96
per gallon._** For an online version of the Memorial Day Gas Prices chart below 
seen below, go to http://216.250.243.12/Memorial_Day_chart.html.

Tweaking the style of car advertising from the 1950s and 1960s, the new Go60MPG.
org ads will start running in print and online this week [Politico](https://greenlivingguy.com/2015/09/foldable-cars-from-politico-magazines-what-works/)
and at http://www.Politico.com. The ads can be seen online at http://216.250.243.12/
Go60MPGad.pdf. The message: Americans have high standards. Our cars should, too.

The full text of the Go60MPG ads reads as follows: **“Americans have high standards.
Our cars should, too. This fall, President Obama can help America reclaim its proud
automotive heritage by raising fuel efficiency and auto pollution standards to 60
miles-per-gallon by 2025. Strong standards will save us billions at the gas pump,
clean up our air, and put Americans back to work building a new generation of vehicles
that create prosperity, not oil dependence. So let’s restore our great automotive
tradition of innovation and excellence. American technology and know-how can make
any new car, truck, or SUV cleaner and more fuel-efficient. All we have to do is
hit the accelerator. If you believe in high standards, join us at Go60MPG.org.”**

In conjunction with the ad campaign, Go60MPG is also launching a newly redesigned
website athttp://www.Go60MPG.org.

In a recent poll conducted by USA Today and Gallup ([http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2011-05-16-rising-gas-prices_n.htm](http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2011-05-16-rising-gas-prices_n.htm)),
67 percent of Americans said the high cost of fuel is causing financial hardship
for their families.

Another recent poll released by the Consumer Federation of America ([http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2011-05-16-rising-gas-prices_n.htm](http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2011-05-16-rising-gas-prices_n.htm))
shows that **_there is widespread bipartisan support for a new standard that would
get us to 60 miles per gallon by 2025._** 62 percent of Americans support a 60 MPG
by 2025 standard, with 62 percent of Republicans, 71 percent of Democrats and 56
percent of Independent in support. Nearly nine out of 10 Americans (85 percent) 
are concerned about gas prices, 87 percent think it is important to reduce oil consumption,
and 75 percent believe it is important to increase fuel economy standards, according
to the CFA poll.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and Environmental Protection Agency (
EPA), which are working with the California Air Resources Board, have been directed
by President Obama to establish joint fuel efficiency and pollution standards for
new cars and trucks. Specifically, the agencies will establish new Corporate Average
Fuel Economy and global warming pollution standards, respectively, for light-duty
vehicles—a category that includes cars, SUVs, minivans, and most pickup trucks—for
model years 2017 to 2025.

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