Category: Fuel Economy

Energy Plan Passes U.S. House, by Gretchen Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: After much heated debate, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a comprehensive energy bill. While President Bush had to compromise on some issues, Democrats voted with Republicans to allow drilling in 2000 acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...
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National Academy Of Sciences Issues Final Report On Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards, by Gretchen Randall

BACKGROUND: The National Academy of Sciences issued its report on the fuel efficiency standards of cars and light-duty trucks, noting that there are trade-offs in tightening the fuel standards. Currently automakers must achieve an average of 27.5 mpg for their ...
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CAFE Standards Increases Would Be a Lose-Lose Proposition for People and the Environment, by Pearse M. Frazier

BACKGROUND: A leaked draft of the upcoming National Academy of Sciences report on Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards re-ignites an old debate over the wisdom of having and raising federally-imposed fuel economy standards. Environmental groups, some media and many ...
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Increasing Fuel Economy Standards Would Cost Lives Without Aiding the Environment

The Relief Report /
Campaign to Save Our Environment Plays Loose with the Truth on Arsenic The "Campaign to Save Our Environment," a coalition including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), has begun running a television commercial ...
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New Gasoline May Force Blacks to Run on Empty, by Syd Gernstein

New Visions Commentary /
Reprints permitted provided source is credited. There has never been a worse time for the government to push policies that would raise gasoline prices, especially since they've risen almost 45% over the past year. But this is exactly what the ...
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After False Starts, Ford Motor Company Improves its Defense of SUVs

National Policy Analysis #326 /
Little noted amid Christmas and Inaugural festivities was this small bulletin out of the Ford Motor Company's headquarters in Dearborn: The giant automaker announced that it was recalling about 110,000 Explorer and Mountaineer sport utility vehicles (SUVs), not because of ...
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Good For Thee, But Not For Me, by Mike Ramey

New Visions Commentary /
Who could forget the sound and the fury of the recent Million Mom March (it was thousands, actually) in Washington, D.C.? Ahh, the pageantry. Ooh, the morality. Ouch - the hypocrisy! Say what? Rosie O'Donnell, the television-talk-show-host-turned-anti-gun-advocate - the woman ...
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How the Environmental Protection Agency Became a Public Health Risk, by Michael Centrone

National Policy Analysis #304 /
If the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established to safeguard the nation's environment, then why does it require people to purchase gasoline that pollutes the water and makes them sick? That, after all, is the result of the EPA's controversial ...
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Gasoline Additives Fuel High Prices and Environmental Problems, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #302 /
There has never been a worse time for the government to enact policies that raise gasoline prices. In just the past 12 months, gasoline prices have skyrocketed - rising almost 45%.1 Desperate citizens are urging the government to intervene. It ...
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Bill Clinton Makes Blacks Pay More at the Pump, by Stuart Pigler

New Visions Commentary /
With gasoline prices rising to well over two dollars a gallon in the Midwestern United States, America's love affair with the automobile may be headed toward a break-up. But before we ditch our wheels, we should first demand the government ...
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