Brownback endorses fuel edict

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By Tim Carpenter
April 22, 2009 - 11:38am

U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback is willing to push harder on the pedal of federal mandates to require half of new automobiles built in 2012 to operate on a range of fuels.

The legislation introduced Wednesday stipulates 50 percent of new vehicles must be capable of operating on gas, ethanol and methanol or diesel and biodiesel.

The standard would rise to 80 percent of automobiles in 2015.

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