Bill restores penalties on car makers who miss fuel economy goals.
S. 4908 — Gas Money Saved Act · Filed by Ed Markey (D-MA) · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill tells the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to review fuel economy rules. Gas prices must rise five times faster than other prices to trigger this review. It adds money penalties on car makers who do not meet fuel economy targets. One penalty goes from zero to $25 per car. Another penalty goes from zero to $50 per car.
Who it affects
Drivers benefit because car makers face penalties to meet fuel economy goals. This can lower fuel costs and cut pollution.
One thing to notice
Gas prices would need to rise five times faster than other prices to trigger a review. This is a high bar that may rarely happen.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jun 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 3 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $476,600 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 79 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Ed Markey, who sponsored the bill, received $584,610 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Earthjustice Action — $376,600 in 2 reports
- Sierra Club — $100,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- fuel economy — How far a car can drive on one gallon of gas.
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — The government agency that sets car safety and fuel economy rules.
- penalty — Money a company must pay when it breaks a rule.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,312 characters) on Jul 9, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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