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S. 3266, The Immediate Steps to Conserve Gasoline Act
- This item is from the 110th Congress (2007-2008) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.
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S. 3266 would require Congress and Federal departments and agencies to reduce the annual consumption of gasoline of the Federal Government.
== Detailed Summary ==
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(Log inImmediate Steps to edit the wikiConserve Gasoline Act - Requires federal departments, agencies, and beCongress, for FY2009, to develop and carry out initiatives to reduce their annual consumption of gasoline by at least 3%.
Requires the firstAdministrator of the Energy Information Administration to providestudy and report to Congress on the potential transportation fuel savings of imposing a detailed summarynational speed limit on highways on the Interstate System of 60 miles per hour.
Requires the bill!)Comptroller General of the United States to study and report to specified congressional committees on whether additional gasoline reduction measures by federal departments, agencies, and Congress are technically feasible.
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== Status of the Legislation ==
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(Log inLatest Major Action: 7/15/2008: Referred to edit the wikiSenate committee. Status: Read twice and be the firstreferred to update the status of the bill!)Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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Bryan Morton
July 18, 2008, 2:35pm (report abuse)Here's a novel approach. Why not have all those Govvies go get real productive jobs. Then they can buy their own gas from their own pockets instead of stealing it through taxation. They'll spend less if they actually have to work for it.