31.   He also expects debate over Internet privacy issues, global warming, and increasing fuel standards for sport utility vehicles.

32.   In a surprise, Cheney said that the administration had not ruled out raising government-mandated fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks.

33.   It chides Republicans for blocking for years a tightening of fuel economy standards for motor vehicles.

34.   Indeed, the Kerry-McCain fuel efficiency standards, which the administration opposed, would have saved three times as much oil as ANWR might produce.

35.   It did so even though Congress recently rejected yet another effort by environmentalists to tighten up fuel economy standards.

36.   Instead of calling for new fuel efficiency standards, it recommending only that new standards receive further study.

37.   It saddens me that the recent efforts to raise federal fuel mileage standards failed.

38.   It also provides money for conservation and alternative energy sources and provides a slight increase in the fuel efficiency standard for sport-utility vehicles and light trucks.

39.   It will be vigorously opposed by anti-regulatory Republicans and the auto industry, which derailed efforts by the Clinton administration to raise fuel efficiency standards.

40.   Just Wednesday, an Energy and Commerce subcommittee began looking at the possibility of overhauling automotive fuel efficiency standards to keep pace with gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles.