As the Obama administration announced new fuel-efficiency standards that would require cars and trucks to achieve 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, former Senator Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and former Representative Jim Davis (D-Fla.) had a refreshingly non-partisan discussion on energy investment. Both men agreed that Democrats and Republicans could do much more to meet halfway on issues that would help the United States achieve energy independence.
Lott criticized current Republicans for not putting everything on the table in order to come to a consensus on energy policy, saying: “Republicans who want to produce more of everything have to also be willing to give a little on the conservation side.” Davis and Lott both agreed that a more aggressively-funded program like DARPA (aka the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) through the U.S. Department of Energy is a investment of taxpayer dollars that both parties can and should rally behind.
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