Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards

Raising Mpg Standards, Part 2: Morris Well Explains the Relative Advantages of Raising the Gasoline Tax

2 Comments / Energy markets, Environmental policy, Regulation, Transportation / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson At the Freakonomics blog, transportation scholar Eric Morris favors President Obama’s recent deal to dramatically raise CAFE standards (Corporate Automobile Fuel Economy standards) by 2025. A gasoline tax would be far superior public policy, he said, but it won’t work politically. Because he thinks CAFE standards do work, technically and politically, he said we should go with …

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Raising Mpg Standards, Part 1: Morris is Not Persuasive in His Claim That Cafe Works

1 Comment / Energy markets, Environmental policy, Regulation, Transportation / By Michael Giberson

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“Congress Didn’t Intend to Create Suvs”

1 Comment / Environmental policy, Liberty, Politics / By Michael Giberson

“Ironically, it was the fuel economy standards adopted by Congress in 1975 that set the stage for the later surge of gas-guzzlingSUVs and light trucks.”