Our Radio Ad: 60 mpg makes sense for America and your pocketbook

In order to provide balance to the Automobile Alliance radio ad that have been playing for weeks in Washington, D.C., the Go60MPG coalition is launching a radio advertising campaign encouraging Americans to deliver the message to the White House that the best way to offer relief at the gas pump is to deliver fuel-efficient vehicles that average 60 miles per gallon by 2025.  The radio ad will run in the Washington, D.C. market starting this week.  The message:  A 60 mile-per-gallon standard makes sense for America … and your pocketbook.

The full text of our ad is below and you can listen to it here:

Are you sick and tired of paying the high price of gasoline?  What if there was a way to create tens of thousands of new jobs, keep billions of dollars in the U.S. economy that now go overseas, and also make it possible for you to pay less at the gas pump?  The good news is that there is a home-grown American solution: a 60 mile-per-gallon fuel efficiency standard by 2025.  Experts say 60 miles-per-gallon would mean 700,000 new jobs in the USA.   It would make America safer by cutting our oil use by more than we now import from the Persian Gulf. And, best of all for consumers, 60 miles-per-gallon would mean $650 billion in savings at the gas pump.   60 miles-per-gallon: it’s a fuel efficiency standard that makes the most sense for America … and your pocketbook.

“Experts say 60 miles-per-gallon would mean 700,000 new jobs in the USA.”

According to respected economist Roger Bezdek, President, Management Information Services, in analysis done for Ceres, a 2025 standard of roughly 62 MPG  could help create 700,000 full-time jobs by 2030, including 60,000 in the auto industry. 

“It would make America safer by cutting our oil use by more than we now import from the Persian Gulf. “

According to the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy, we imported 1.7 million barrels of oil per day from the Persian Gulf in April 2011. Based on analysis by Natural Resources Defense and the Union of Concerned Scientists, a 60 mpg standard would save 44 billion gallons in 2030, about 2.8 million barrels per day, well in excess of the amount we currently import from the Persian Gulf.

“And, best of all for consumers, 60 miles-per-gallon would mean $650 billion in savings at the gas pump.”

Based on analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a 60 mpg standard would save American consumers about $645 billion between 2017 and 2030. In the ad, we rounded the savings up slightly.