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Title: WHY CAFE WORKED
Accession Number: 00794742
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Record URL: Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: The 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act established mandatory fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks sold in the U.S. Since that time the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have often been criticized as costly, inefficient, and even unsafe, despite the general absence of direct empirical evidence to support such claims. This paper reviews empirical evidence on the impacts of the CAFE standards and explains why properly designed and executed fuel economy regulations may be preferable to other policies for reducing petroleum dependence and carbon emissions. It appears that the standards substantially achieved their objective of restraining U.S. oil consumption without producing significant negative side-effects because they were set at levels that could be achieved by cost-effective or nearly cost-effective technological innovations.
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Monograph Accession #: 00794736
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Greene, D LPagination: p. 119-164
Publication Date: 1999-8
Serial: Conference:
Conference on Policies for Fostering Sustainable Transportation Technologies
Location:
Pacific Grove, California Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Appendices
(1)
; Figures
(11)
; References; Tables
(6)
TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Law; Policy
Files: NTL, TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jun 20 2000 12:00AM
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