CAR RULES: 'Nobody believes those numbers'
View on ClimateWire, E&E News website"But Linn said that [the administration's] reasoning was flawed. He said the Trump administration made erroneous claims about the scrappage model. In particular, he said research shows that people who bought new cars would likely still keep their older models and drive them occasionally. That would result in more VMT, more traffic accidents and more air pollution — and lower projected cost savings.
'From the literature, what we think would happen is that if you had two older cars, you might scrap one but drive the other one more,' said Alan Krupnick, another senior fellow at Resources for the Future who worked with Linn on a recent blog post about the car rules. 'So at the end of the day, you wouldn't get the benefits that the Trump administration says you would get.'"