A new MIT study — from a group that is very sympathetic to carbon regulatory policies — documents how inefficient vehicle fuel efficiency (CAFE) standards are.
Read more at ProductsandPower.org.
A new MIT study — from a group that is very sympathetic to carbon regulatory policies — documents how inefficient vehicle fuel efficiency (CAFE) standards are.
Read more at ProductsandPower.org.
I’m still rummaging for any part of the Constitution that gives the federal government any authority over fuel standards. It’s a pretty short document. Now of course there isn’t anything in it about cars or trains or planes, but there’s also nothing in it about deciding what people may buy and may not buy.
Lets not misread the intent of CAFE standards. Their purpose is to shield compliant politicians from accountability for trading driver’s lives for higher gas mileage.
At this, they are emminently successful.
CAFE standards are quite efficient.
At restricting freedom of choice and freedom of travel.
The saving the planet stuff is just marketing to get you to accept it.