Representative Jack Kingston

1. Once you reach a speed of 60 mph, every 10 mph faster you drive reduces fuel economy by about 4 mpg - regardless of vehicle size. If a car gets 28 mpg at 65 mph, driving it at 75 mph would drop that to 24 mpg. Passenger vehicles account for approximately 40 percent of all U.S. oil consumption.

Would you support lowering the speed limit on the interstate to 55 mph in an effort to get better fuel efficiency? Yes
No
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2. Each year the United States Postal Service uses 121 million gallons of gas to fuel their fleet. This averages out to 331,500 gallons of gas each day.

Should we eliminate Saturday mail deliveries as a method to conserve gas? Yes
No
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3. Would you be likely to carpool if you got a tax reimbursement for 10% of your commuting costs? Yes
No
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4. In large cities, should parking rates be expensive so that mass transit is the only cost-effective transportation option? Yes
No
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5. Your car idles when you use drive-through windows, wasting gasoline. Idling your engine for one minute consumes the gas equivalent of starting your engine.

Would you support eliminating drive-through windows in order to conserve gas? Yes
No
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6. Truckers often have to sleep in their trucks. They leave their engines running so they can use the air-conditioning while they sleep. As idling wastes many gallons of gas, there are now auxiliary power units (APU) that allow truckers to use energy from their battery instead of running their engines and burning fuel.

Would you support a tax credit for truck drivers to purchase APUs? Yes
No
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7. Have you changed your daily life/routine because of high gas prices? Yes
No

If so, how?

8. For 26 years, we have barred offshore exploration from three miles to 200 miles offshore. This means that the oil and gas in our domestic waters cannot be accessed by American companies in order to increase our domestic oil and natural gas supply. Keep in mind that China and Cuba are currently working together on plans to drill for oil and gas only 50 miles off of the coast of Florida.

Would you support lifting the moratorium on offshore oil and natural gas exploration if you could not see the rigs from the shoreline? Yes to both oil and natural gas
Yes to oil only
Yes to natural gas only
No to both oil and natural gas

9. In 1980, President Carter created the 20 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR, which is the size of South Carolina). He set aside 1.5 million acres for future energy exploration and development. This parcel could be the single largest conventional energy resource in America. Energy activities would be limited to 2,000 acres of the surface, and the mean estimate of recoverable oil is 10.4 billion barrels. That’s more than double the proven reserves of Texas and could increase America’s total proven reserves by nearly 50 percent.

Would you support oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? Yes
No
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10. Would you be more inclined to switch to a more eco-friendly car if the federal government offered a tax credit of $300 towards the purchase of a gasoline-ethanol-methanol flexible fuel vehicle, and doubles the credit for a flexible fuel hybrid or flexible fuel plug-in hybrid as compared to a non-flexible hybrid or plug-in hybrid? Yes
No
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Would you support legislation that would require new cars to be flex-fuel vehicles which look and perform exactly like gasoline only cars but give drivers the choice of fueling with gasoline or alcohol fuels like methanol made from agricultural waste or coal and ethanol? Yes
No
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12. If the price was the same, would you rather fill up with: Domestically produced gas
Imported gas
It makes no difference

13. In France, 79 percent of their energy needs are met by nuclear power that comes from 58 nuclear power plants. They lack coal and oil resources, so nuclear power is their most viable domestic energy option. France has the cleanest air in the industrialized world because nuclear power emits no greenhouse gases. The US has halted construction of nuclear power plants since the 1970s due to a fear of a nuclear accident. However, there are 103 nuclear plants operating in the United States that have produced 20 percent of the nation's electricity without major incident in 28 years.

Would you support US policy that increases our country’s nuclear power supply as an alternative energy source? Yes
No
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14. It is estimated that 6 million of the 241 million cars and trucks on the road today that can use gas blended with ethanol but it is hard to find fueling stations that offer these blends. The domestic ethanol industry is working hard to produce ethanol to meet the demand but it takes time to permit and build a large capacity ethanol plant. In the interim, some think suspending the 54 cent tariff on ethanol from Brazil would provide more ethanol for blending with gasoline, thereby decreasing our oil consumption and possibly lowering the price of gas.

Would you support elimination of the 54 cents-per-gallon import tariff on ethanol from Brazil? Yes
No
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16. The United States had the world’s largest supply of coal, which is less expensive than oil or natural gas. Would you support an income tax credit for investment in coal-to-liquid fuels projects? Yes
No
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17. The University of Georgia is researching the potential to develop alternative fuels using biomass from algae, sorghum, cellulocic ethanol, among other things. According to the experts at UGA, a viable fuel alternative should be one that does not compete with food, safe to grow sustainably, and one that can be processed easily and cheaply to either liquid fuel or electricity, and that is what they are working to develop. Do you think that federal funds should be used to research and develop alternative fuels? Do you think the state should fund? Do you think local or private funds should fund this research? Check all that you think should be applicable. Federal
State
Local
Private

18. Would you support government mandates that require auto manufactures to raise the fuel efficiency of new cars? Yes
No
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