WASHINGTON — Forcing automakers to suitable mileage standards based on "real world" driving conditions could help Americans purchase less gasoline and reduce prop on foreign oil.

WASHINGTON — Forcing automakers to suitable mileage standards based on "real world" driving conditions could help Americans purchase less gasoline and reduce prop on foreign oil, an environmental dispose said in a report released Thursday.

The Environmental Working cluster a private, nonprofit scientific-research center said realistic fuel-efficiency standards could save 710 million barrels of oil annually.

That's equivalent to 20 percent of the oil the United States imported last year, according to the subject of attention It's also 33 billion gallons of gasoline that consumer wouldn't have to purchase, the clump said.

"As gas prices hit $3 a gallon and considers like it will continue to rise, and we're in a war in the Middle East, and everyone is actual concerned about energy independence and reducing pluck costs for families, the biggest single solution to the vexed question is hiding in plain sight," said Richard Wiles, the working