will the streak remain unbroken? with three winners in three states, it may be a while before we find out. chris? chris: john roberts reporting from south carolina. thanks for that. joining us now from the state capitol of columbia is mitt romney. governor, welcome back to fox news sunday. thanks, chris. good to be with you. chris: i want to put up the dramatic change in south carolina over this past week. let s look at the polls.hr on monday before the fox news debate, you were leading gingrich 29.7% to 22. last night gingrich beat you 40b to 28. not as a swing up 20 points in a few days. question, governor: what happened? well, speaker gingrich had a gooder week. i think his debate sparring with juan williams was a great opportunity for him to show some strength. was not a great week for me. we spent a lot of time talking about tax returns and the changing vote in iowa. andwe it s a time when we faceda
jim? reporter: hello, jon. yep, 54.5 miles a gallon by 2025. the administration had wanted 56, and it argued for that for several weeks. it finally got agreement with several automakers for today s increase. keep in mind the current numbers are 29.7, that is an average for all the autos sold in the u.s. now, the automakers had resisted arguing consumers have shown little interest in buying more expensive hybrids even with high gasoline prices. in fact, the 30 hybrid models now on the market only account for 2.4% of total sales. and just last year ford sold almost twice as many f-150 pickups as all the hybrids put together. so the fear among automakers is that they will be forced to produce cars that are smaller and lighter raising safety concerns of course have less power and be fewer amenities which add rate. and they fear consumers won t
2025. the administration had wanted 56, and it argued for that for several weeks. it finally got agreement with several automakers for today s increase. keep in mind the current numbers are 29.7, that is an average for all the autos sold in the u.s. now, the automakers had resisted arguing consumers have shown little interest in buying more expensive hybrids even with high gasoline prices. in fact, the 30 hybrid models now on the market only account for 2.4% of total sales. and just last year ford sold almost twice as many f-150 pickups as all the hybrids put together. so the fear among automakers is that they will be forced to produce cars that are smaller and lighter raising safety concerns of course have less power and be fewer amenities which add rate. and they fear consumers won t buy them leading to job losses in the industry. but the automakers reluctantly
soon as it happens. martha: president obama expected to announce new rules for fuel mileage that could affect the kind of cars automakers develop over the next decade. some major companies objecting to what they say could kill jobs in an industry that drives much of the u.s. economy. jim angle is with us live from washington. reporter: that right. one of every five jobs in the economy relies on auto sales to one extent or another. president obama is seeking to almost double the mileage standards from an average 29.7 today to 54.5 by 2025. the automakers balked at such an increase and pointed to a federal agency that it warned relying on expensive hybrids could result in a 14% drop in sales saying dwoat there is a high level of uncertainty about
reporter: is the governor taking over? the governor is full live alert and he is in charge. martha: he will talk about reporters when he leaves the hospital later today. we ll bring you that news as soon as it happens. martha: president obama expected to announce new rules for fuel mileage that could affect the kind of cars automakers develop over the next decade. some major companies objecting to what they say could kill jobs in an industry that drives much of the u.s. economy. jim angle is with us live from washington. reporter: that right. one of every five jobs in the economy relies on auto sales to one extent or another. president obama is seeking to almost double the mileage standards from an average 29.7 today to 54.5 by 2025.