Trump and the CAFE Proposal: Disappearing Fuel Cost Savings, Part 2.
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Resources for the Future (RFF) posted the seventh in a multi-part blog series about the Trump administration’s recent proposal to freeze federal fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards. The new installment is: Missing Fuel Cost Savings: Some Clues Emerge, by author RFF Senior Fellow Joshua Linn.
The new blog post begins: “In a previous post, we tried to figure out why the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have reduced the estimated fuel cost savings from tighter fuel economy standards compared to their analysis from two years ago. By process of elimination, we concluded that the agencies’ assumptions on vehicle travel are a likely explanation. In this blog post, I take a closer look at those assumptions and conclude that they appear to play a big role in the agencies’ arguments for freezing the standards.”
Read the full blog post: Missing Fuel Cost Savings: Some Clues Emerge.
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