Claim: "After 30 years of inaction, we raised fuel standards so that by the middle of the next decade, cars and trucks will go twice as far on a gallon of gas."
Fact-check: President Barack Obama says he raised fuel standards after '30 years of inaction'
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Becky Bowers
Date published: 2012-09-10T00:00:00