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Today, NRDC with the UAW and the Center for American Progress released a new report that demonstrates that fuel potency can go together with making many thousands of top of the range, clean energy producing roles. This is a text-book illustration showing how with the right policies, we will make a win-win situation for the environment and the economy. Building more fuel efficient autos will, without doubt, reduce dangerous pollution that is threatening our surroundings but by putting the unemployed back to work, it can often help save the economy too.

The report released today, called Driving Expansion : How Clean Vehicles and Climate Policy Can Create Roles was authored by two Michigan-based researchers, Alan Baum from the research firm, The Planning Edge and Daniel Luria from the Michigan Producing Technology Center. Building better autos, the study concludes, would make a need for further clean car technologies, across the vehicle supply chain that would, in turn, create many thousands of new roles in several different states.

According to the study, skyrocketing a car's fuel use to 40.2 mpg by 2020 could create more than 190,000 roles thru the planet. We think autos could go to an even higher fuel standard, which would create far more roles but the final analysis is : Better fuel use means more clean technology elements and more producing roles. The key challenge is making sure to the best degree possible that these roles are made and remain domestically.

Dependent on policies, the study guesses between 49,000 and 151,000 of the roles will be in the U. S. . Most experts, including those in the automobile industry, understand the Environmental Protection Agency and the Dept of Transport are probably going to fortify greenhouse gas and fuel usage automobile standards for the post 2016 period.

It is up to Congress to be sure the roles that come with new autos stay inside the US. Making the right inducements can ensure that up to 150,000 of these new roles stay here. The study sponsors agree with the report's suggestions : Complete clean energy and climate legislation is the perfect policy tool as it provides support at the scale, level of predictability and duration wanted to a fund a significant commercial and technical transition.

Domestic producing inducements bankrolled thru steady allowance earnings, could prove vital in the options firms make where to find production decisions and our industrial percentage in these developing trends. Clean energy, climate security bills in Congress, including the House-passed American Clean Energy and Security Act ( H.R. 2454 ) and the Clean Energy Roles and American Power Act , can help make sure the car roles of the future are American roles. Each one of these bills provide more than $23 bill bucks in long term funding, stretching from 2012 to 2025, to retool producing facilities for the production of complicated combustion cars and the new generation of clean autos powered by grid electricity.

We have often announced clean energy is the cleaner, less expensive, and quicker way to meet our country's energy wishes. Now we are able to add to that list and create more good-paying roles in the United States. The report we released today demonstrates that building better autos is good for the environment and good for the economy. We urge Congress to act to guarantee the U.S. Doesn't miss out in the competition for clean energy roles.