Heavy-Duty Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards EPA/DOT Testimony Timothy 

### J. Milburn Green Ways 2Go/

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.com /847-826-3314 Thank you for the opportunity to testify . My name is Tim Milburn , and I represent Green Ways 2Go, a consulting company in Illinois focusing on smart ways to reduce pollution in transportation . I am here in strong support ofthe proposed standards that will make our larger vehicles operate more cleanly and more efficiently for year s to come. These proposed standards are a good step forward , and I urge you adopt these standards as a minimum , to ensure the significant reductions in oil consumption , greenhouse gas and other harmful emissions. I have spent much of my career in coal , oil , gas and biofuel applications as a combustion and pollution control engineer. I understand the chemistry and physics of the resulting products of combustion and how they interact with the environment once they leave the tailpipe. Based on the broad consensus of many experts, I agree the time is now to act to reduce C0 2 em issions; else we face increasingly serious challenges related to climate change . The transportation energy sector represents about one third ofthe total C0 2 generated in the US . Based on US Energy Information Administration data , the targeted larger vehicle group represents about 20% ofthe transportation total , second to light duty vehicles , at 54% . A key role of a democratic government is to create reachable , practical targets that benefit society and provide fair mechanisms to achieve these targets. If CAFE standards for light duty vehicles have been deemed necessary, this same logic should equally be applied for the larger vehicles , as this vehicle group represents the highest per vehicle miles and lowest fuel efficiencies and therefore the highest sources of pollution per mile driven and a large contributor to pollution and the associated negative human health and environmental impacts. The plan further targets having a two-year pay back in fuel savings vs . the incremental costs . This will be compelling to the fleet owners, who should be money ahead after just two years . The prosed standards would establish a level playing field , defining areas where American innovation can provide solutions that benefit society as a whole, by continuing to lead the US and the world on a path of responsibly managing man 's impacts on the earth 's ecosystems, while reducing the need for the US to import oil. This leads to economic stimuli , jobs. reduced risks and red uced costs required to globally protect oil , reduced trade deficits and a more competitive US global economic profi le . These technical advances will soon come from somewhere in the world and having the US leading these improvements will result in exporting of US

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**,** meaning even more American jobs and cash flow. Initiatives like the Fuel Efficiency Standards help educate all of us on why we should be mindful of proper stewardship ofthe finite air, water and land resources we share. I urge you to fina lize and adopt these or stronger standards. Simply put, this is the right thing to do. Thank you for the opportunity to testify .