It settled on a five-cent increase, and attention has moved back to new mileage standards.

Some of these wagons are so big, though, they might not meet even the mileage standard for light trucks.

If mileage standards are so problematic, why isn't anyone complaining?

"It's as if we were all driving Model T's today and trying to bring them up to current mileage standards."

The auto industry avoided the mileage standards it did not want.

Officials say the higher mileage standard is important because most pollution comes from old cars.

Next year, Americans are expected to burn more fuel per person than in 1973, before the Government set mileage standards.

Today, the Senate considered a proposal much less strict than the tough mileage standards voted down last month.

If the government raises the mileage standards, no one is sure what method the automakers will use to meet them.

China already has higher mileage standards for its autos than we do.