Ed Markey: “There is a tremendous revolution going on in the United States right now that the Kelly amendment would cut right to the…”

“There is a tremendous revolution going on in the United States right now that the Kelly amendment would cut right to the heart of. Between 2017 and 2025, as fuel economy standards in America would rise to 54.5 miles per gallon just because of those additional 8 years of higher fuel economy standards, we would back 2 million additional barrels of oil per day out of the United States. How much is that? Well, let me just give you an idea. There is conversation about whether or not there might be a war with Iran. Well, the United States imports 1.8 million barrels of oil per day out of the Persian Gulf, 1.8 million barrels a day. This amendment would kill the efforts, which the auto industry has accepted, to back out 2 million barrels of oil per day by increasing the fuel economy standards between 2017 and 2025. This is one of the most anti-national security amendments that we could ever have out here on the House floor. Combined with the dramatic increase in CO<INF>2</INF> that would go into the atmosphere--an additional 6 billion metric tons of CO<INF>2</INF> would go up into the atmosphere if this amendment passed. Now, how much CO<INF>2</INF> is that? That's as much CO<INF>2</INF> as the entire United States emitted in the year 2010 in our country.…”