Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) talks about the Open Fuel Standard Act which would require that fifty percent of new automobiles be fuel flex vehicles by 2012. Brownback explains that the U.S. sends over half a trillion dollars per year to OPEC and non-OPEC nations for imported oil. He says that the nation’s foreign policy has been dictated in part for the need for foreign oil for far too long. (1:11)
A news conference was held introducing the Open Fuel Standard Act, which would require that starting in 2012, fifty percent of new automobiles, and starting in 2015, eighty percent of new automobiles, be flex fuel vehicles made to operate on gasoline, ethanol, and methanol. Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) began by saying that the U.S. urgently needs to lessen its dependence on foreign oil. Brownback said that the solution is an easy one which would require no need for new inventions, but simply a switch to flex fuel vehicles. He explained that this enhancement comes at a reasonable price and would only add $100 per vehicle during creation. Brownback said that this is the “way to do it” — the way to start ending America’s addiction to oil. (more…)
