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Thanksgiving Drivers Should Consider Fuel Efficiency
(IRN)-People traveling for Thanksgiving would save money if their cars were more fuel efficient.

Environment Illinois puts a dollar figure on it: $12 per family, just for Thanksgiving travel, if their cars got 60 mpg instead of the current average of 26. That adds up to over $10 million statewide over Thanksgiving weekend.

Field associate Christine Del Priore says it can be done: "We know we can get to 60 mpg for the average car or light truck," she says. "We have the technology."

The trouble with vehicles that would get 60 mpg is that they cost thousands more up front, but Del Priore says if they're driven enough, the difference will be overcome in three or four years, while providing the added benefit of less use of foreign oil and less pollution coming out of the tail pipe.

Environment Illinois is pushing the Obama Administration to establish a 60 mpg standard for new vehicles sold beginning in 2025.

(Illinois Radio Network)
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