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  National Speed Limits

  The government has no business talking about Green anything and promoting speed limits to 65 & 70. Cafe standards use the old lower speed limit and did not calculate ethanol fuel. The higher speed limit contributes to greatly increased green house emissions as a result of decreased mileage and increased fuel usage. If the situation was any stupider, we would open up like an Autobahn and make 1 mpg with your Prius while ...more »

  The government has no business talking about Green anything and promoting speed limits to 65 & 70. Cafe standards use the old lower speed limit and did not calculate ethanol fuel. The higher speed limit contributes to greatly increased green house emissions as a result of decreased mileage and increased fuel usage. If the situation was any stupider, we would open up like an Autobahn and make 1 mpg with your Prius while going 110 mph.

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  Remove the Ethanol out of the fuel we use

  Ethanol provides less energy by volume of any liquid fuel used in transportation. It is as bad as 26% less Mpg in an Suv with a V8 as proven by Consumer Reports. Ethanol fuel produces more bad green house emissions by volume than regular gasoline. Putting 10% more fuel on the market by going to ethanol offset with Mpg go down more than the gain was a mistake. Get all ethanol fuel out of gas, watch the Mpg go up and food ...more »

  Ethanol provides less energy by volume of any liquid fuel used in transportation. It is as bad as 26% less Mpg in an Suv with a V8 as proven by Consumer Reports. Ethanol fuel produces more bad green house emissions by volume than regular gasoline. Putting 10% more fuel on the market by going to ethanol offset with Mpg go down more than the gain was a mistake. Get all ethanol fuel out of gas, watch the Mpg go up and food prices go down. If the situation was any worse, you could write a consipiracy paper on the situation.

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  Enforce Tax Exempt Status

  Stop paying an average of 51cent on the dollar for state and fed taxes on the fuel we purchase for governement vehicles. The fed pumps billions of dollars a year into states for roads, highways, byways and bridges. Why do we pay those fees and tolls?

  Eliminate this waste, save money and pump those savings into telework, development of more efficient vehicles to use.

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  Site Layout for Commenting

  Create set Categories for this commenting. Have the Idea for commenting in the one place not ending up in every category. Eliminate Ideas to be commented on. Over 1k Ideas posted, remove the lower 20% of voted on ideas in system more than 72 hrs, enlarge percentage as ideas grow in number. Like the rest of the government work we do, we are trying to do the best we can but this is too much to wade through and comment on ...more »

  Create set Categories for this commenting. Have the Idea for commenting in the one place not ending up in every category. Eliminate Ideas to be commented on. Over 1k Ideas posted, remove the lower 20% of voted on ideas in system more than 72 hrs, enlarge percentage as ideas grow in number. Like the rest of the government work we do, we are trying to do the best we can but this is too much to wade through and comment on at this point.

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  USPS BUDGET DEFICIT

  The government needs to go back to using USPS for all shipping rather than contracting out with FedEx or UPS. USPS could subcontract with them as necessary. This would pump money into that area without Congress having to allocate additional funding for them or raising the price on stamps.

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  Govt Vehicle Fuel Issues

  Get the ethanol back out of the fuel. Most vehicles on the road do not burn this 10-15% ratio properly. The mininum 10% of gas it replaced is ruined by its up to 26% less fuel efficient output as ethanol produces quite a bit less energy on the burn compared with others. It is ridiculous the level the government subsidized this for something we don't use, produces less Mpg and creates worse green house emissions than ...more »

  Get the ethanol back out of the fuel. Most vehicles on the road do not burn this 10-15% ratio properly. The mininum 10% of gas it replaced is ruined by its up to 26% less fuel efficient output as ethanol produces quite a bit less energy on the burn compared with others.

  It is ridiculous the level the government subsidized this for something we don't use, produces less Mpg and creates worse green house emissions than regular gas.

  Which bonehead thought that up and why wasn't the 90/10 ethanol gasoline we use now used for the newer Cafe standards? Why weren't the higher allowed hwy speeds used for the newer Cafe determinations.

  Get the speed limits back down to forcibly decrease fuel use and decrease green house emissions. The U.S. Government has over 1 million leased and agency owned vehicles on the road. Do we really need to drive 75 with a tank full of ethanol so you can drop Mpg by 40%?

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  OIl Production

  Open up and begin to develop the full potential of what we have here in North America. The Bakken Shelf and close regional areas are identified as the largest oil and natural reserves on the planet. Begin to fully develop the reserves, start national pipelines now for this oil and natural gas, include Canada in the pipeline to greatly increase the amount of oil we can get from them. Use the cost savings at the pump to ...more »

  Open up and begin to develop the full potential of what we have here in North America. The Bakken Shelf and close regional areas are identified as the largest oil and natural reserves on the planet. Begin to fully develop the reserves, start national pipelines now for this oil and natural gas, include Canada in the pipeline to greatly increase the amount of oil we can get from them. Use the cost savings at the pump to continue to deveop alternate and renewable energy resources.

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  Energy Savings

  We still do not have a basic Energy Code for construction to be agency owned or leasing. I am newly constructed bldg that will be leased for almost 20 years. We threw in enough auto off lights and recycled doors to call this green. We did nothing real, nothing to be proud of. Two years later, downtown elements still can't figure out how to create a measurement matrix to track and enforce lights and other unnecessary electronice ...more »

  We still do not have a basic Energy Code for construction to be agency owned or leasing. I am newly constructed bldg that will be leased for almost 20 years. We threw in enough auto off lights and recycled doors to call this green. We did nothing real, nothing to be proud of. Two years later, downtown elements still can't figure out how to create a measurement matrix to track and enforce lights and other unnecessary electronice devices being turned off each day close of business.

  News Flash, 9% - 16% of the entire electric bill the government has can be saved by a strict zero tolerance policy in lights and other being left on after hours.

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  Fuel Purchasing Savings

  Just like we do in government pricing in goods and services we spend funding on, negotiate fuel prices on national contracts like we do with cell phones, laptop purchases etc. Getting reduced whole sale pump rate pricing can save 6%-9% of the governments applicable fuel bills. Take the saved funding and buy ultra efficient and Telework more employees.

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  Savings In Fuel

  1) The government is tax exempt, furthermore the government provides billions of dollars to the states for hyways, byways, bridges and other. Why then is the government paying almost .51 cent per gallon on taxes. Enforce our Tax Exempt Status, put those saved monies back into ultra efficient vehicles and Telework Options for employees.

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