The International Council on Clean Transportation recently released a report outlining car and light truck fuel efficiency for major countries across the world. The United States comes in dead last. So when Mitt Romney says things like:

“You put a big burden on energy in this country as the energy-intensive industries say, “We’re going to move our new facilities from America to China, where they don’t have those agreements.”

And you end up polluting and putting just as much CO-2 in the air because the big energy users go there. That’s why these ideas make sense, but only on a global basis.

They don’t call it ‘America warming.’ They call it global warming.’”

he’s wrong in this respect. Even China sets strict minimum standards that every vehicle class must achieve. So while Grover Norquist and friends lament over such “harsh” fuel economy standards such as a 35MPG target by 2020, China has such a restriction in place NOW. It’s time to get our act together and do our part to mitigate the effects of global warming. Certainly, these regulatory standards that conservatives are railing against aren’t enough.

From the report: