Category: Fuel Economy

CAFE Kills, and Then Some: Six Reasons to Be Skeptical of Fuel Economy Standards, by Amy Ridenour and Peyton Knight

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: In 1975, Congress enacted Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations to reduce gasoline consumption. Current CAFE standards require an average of 27.2 miles per gallon (mpg) for cars and 21.6 mpg for light trucks. As part of its debate ...
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No to New Fuel Economy Standards: Consumer Choice, Not Congress, Should Drive Detroit’s Decisionmaking, by Eric Peters

National Policy Analysis #556 /
If the government decides to pass a law requiring that McDonalds sell only low-fat chicken breast wraps and diet soda, the result would be more business for Wendy's and Burger King -- and empty stores for McDonalds.  So it is ...
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CAFE Standard Increases: Here’s Why Not

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Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Hudson Institute has written a superlative op-ed on the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, that were approved by the Senate Commerce Committee in May. Among the CAFE facts Furchtgott-Roth shares with her readers: ...
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Citing Safety Concerns, National Center for Public Policy Research Calls on President Bush to Reconsider his Call to Increase Fuel Economy Standards

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Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research calls on President Bush to reconsider his call for an increase in Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, as he apparently called for in his State of the Union ...
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Energy Realities

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As the Senate debates offshore drilling legislation, senior fellow Dana Gattuso says Americans -- "even with gas prices rising and Chicken Little-like speculations that we're tapping out supplies" -- are not quite ready to quit their oil habit. What's more, ...
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Claim of Record High Gas Prices Tanks Under Scrutiny

National Policy Analysis #541 /
Don't believe the media hype: Prices at the pump aren't as bad as you've been lead to believe. Compared to what they were nearly 25 years ago, today's gas prices are a bargain.  And they're a bargain compared to other ...
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CAFE Standards Kill: Congress’ Regulatory Solution to Foreign Oil Dependence Comes at a Steep Price, by Ryan Balis

National Policy Analysis #546 /
On the heels of the Arab oil embargo, in 1975 Congress enacted Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards as a regulatory solution to reduce the United States' dependence on foreign oil and gasoline consumption.1  CAFE standards mandate that vehicles sold ...
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Oil Prices and the Media: Don’t Believe the Hype

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The National Center's Peyton Knight attended a Media Research Center Business and Media Institute symposium on gasoline prices at the National Press Club today. Given the high public interest in oil prices lately, I thought readers might be interested reading ...
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ExxonMobil on Gas Prices: We Couldn’t Manipulate the Price Even If We Wanted To

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On behalf of this blog, The National Center's Peyton Knight participated in a blogger conference call this afternoon with ExxonMobil Vice President Ken Cohen. The following is Peyton's report: Along with eight representatives from various other weblogs, I participated in ...
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National Fuel Economy Standards to be Raised by Some Guy in California Who Thinks He Knows Best

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This gentleman was merely elected to a statewide post in California, yet believes he should set national law -- in this case, on the matter of national fuel economy standards. Perhaps he believes legislatures are such inefficent bodies that we ...
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