Description
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announces new fuel economy standards. The eight percent annual increase is set to take effect for the 2024 model year that begins in September 2023.
7 minutes
Keywords
- Atmosphere
- Carbon Dioxide
- Cartel
- Climate Change
- Congress
- Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards
- Department Of Transportation
- Domestic
- Drought
- Dust Bowl
- Foreign
- Oil Barrel
- Permit
- President
- Rural
- Shortage
- Speculator
- Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Additional Resources
- Primary Source Current Event Video Analysis Handout - Google Docs
- Bell Ringer: Changes in the Automotive Industry Due to Gas Prices
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- Lesson Plan: Deliberation - What should the US policy be towards the use of fossil fuels?