California And Trump Are Set To Collide Over Electric Cars And Gas Guzzlers

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March 7, 2017

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"'One of the major surprises has been gasoline prices are lower than we thought they’d be,' Joshua Linn, an energy economist with Resources for the Future (RFF), an independent think tank in Washington DC, told BuzzFeed News." "An RFF study led by Linn, released in September, concluded that low gas prices have increased the industry’s cost of complying with the federal fuel efficiency standards by about $500 million per year. But that was just 9% of the overall net benefits of the standards, which means that the US economy would likely suffer if they were relaxed."

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Josh Linn is a senior fellow at RFF. His research centers on the effects of environmental policies and economic incentives for new technologies in the transportation, electricity, and industrial sectors.

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