Category: Fuel Economy

Playing Games With SUV Safety Statistics

National Policy Analysis #519 /
Consumers are constantly reminded to "read the fine print" before spending their hard-earned cash on items ranging from breakfast cereals to mutual funds. Being on guard against misleading advertising is sound advice; no one wants to be hoodwinked. That same ...
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Robert Kennedy on Environment

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been known to make exaggerated claims -- utterly ridiculous, completely laughable statements -- about environmental issues. This quote from him may explain why: I have so much mercury in my body right now, having tested ...
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Anti-SUV Activists Versus the American Family, by Matthew Craig

New Visions Commentary /
  When you get behind the wheel of your SUV or minivan, do you automatically become a member of a hate group? According to the radicals now dominating the environmental movement, driving one of these vehicles proves you hate the ...
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Fact Checking The O’Reilly Factor

In his "talking points" editorial on Wednesday's O'Reilly Factor show, Bill O'Reilly said: "We have failed to impose fuel standards on vehicles because auto companies don't want that." First of all, we do have fuel standards on vehicles. Second, those ...
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Regulations: The Untold Story, by Dana Joel Gattuso

National Policy Analysis #505 /
According to former presidential candidate Howard Dean: "In order to make capitalism work for ordinary human beings, you have to have regulation."1 That's the best oxymoron since George Carlin's "jumbo shrimp." Dean's plan to institute a new federal regulatory regime ...
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Tightening CAFE Standards Would Increase Congestion

More useful information from Mike Catanzaro at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: It's difficult to gainsay the intensity of feeling among environmental groups over CAFÉ. "The auto industry and their friends in Congress should stop holding fuel efficiency ...
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Ecoterrorist Hate Crimes on the Increase

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: The Earth Liberation Front is taking responsibility for arson fires at three construction sites in an area in San Diego that had been used for agricultural purposes.1 This is the fifth arson attack against construction sites for which ELF ...
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Anti-SUV Activists Versus the American Family, by Matthew Craig

National Policy Analysis #481 /
When you get behind the wheel of your SUV or minivan, do you automatically become a member of a hate group? According to the radicals now dominating the environmental movement, driving one of these vehicles proves you hate the planet ...
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Rolling Over the Facts on SUV Safety, by Amy Ridenour and Eric Peters

National Policy Analysis #465 /
More people were killed last year in rollover-type accidents involving pickups and SUVs than in previous years: statistically speaking, about 1.51 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled.1 But despite alarmist reportage by the major media and SUV-haters in the ...
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The Car They Want You to Drive, by Amy Ridenour and Eric Peters

National Policy Analysis #466 /
When you order a pizza, it's up to you what the toppings will be. No government busybody or special interest "advocate" has yet figured out a way to deprive you of your double pepperoni - if that's what you're hankering ...
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