China-U.S. Energy Policies: A Choice of Cooperation or Collision

To create the market for this new era of vehicles and reduction of our consumption of oil, this legislation requires that by 2012, 10 percent of all vehicles sold in the U.S. be hybrid, hybrid-electric plug-in or alternative fuel and biofuel vehicles.  That number will rise by 10 percent a year until, by 2016, we require that 50 percent of all vehicles sold in United States be these energy alternative vehicles.

Passage of this legislation [Vehicle and Fuel Choices for American Security Act of 2005], I believe, would go a long way toward providing the U.S. not only with greater energy diversity and independence, but for all the reasons I
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