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Creating Clean Cars In America Creates Jobs At Home
Requiring auto companies to build cleaner cars will make automakers more competitive. The Big Three put auto industry jobs at risk by failing to use innovative technology. While Japanese and European car makers are putting lean-burn engines, continuously variable transmissions, and other fuel-efficient technologies into their cars, American automakers continue to produce inefficient designs with primitive technology. Dozens of unionized factories in the United States already produce clean car technology. We could do even more by continuing to raise CAFE standards, putting American ingenuity to work to make clean, efficient, American made cars and SUVs.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists found that the recent increase in CAFE standards from 25 mpg to 35 mpg will jumpstart the American economy by directly creating 22,300 new jobs across the nation. In addition, the money consumers save at the gas pump will be reinvested into the economy, creating an estimated additional 170,800 new jobs nationwide.
