T. Gorton: “It is a proposal to allow a study of whether or not corporate fuel economy standards should be increased. My view, and…”

“It is a proposal to allow a study of whether or not corporate fuel economy standards should be increased. My view, and that of my distinguished colleagues from California and Nevada, is that this can be accomplished without downsizing automobiles or small trucks. Interestingly enough, many of the comments on the part of the opponents to our motion in effect said so, that great technical strides have been made in this connection, strides that we encourage. But I simply want to make it clear that the goal of the proponents of this motion is to end the prohibition against even studying whether or not we should improve these fuel efficiency standards.”