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Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14855662 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert W Crandall (Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 171-180 |
| Publication date | 1992-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0895-3309 • E-ISSN: 1944-7965 |
| Publisher | American Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1257/jep.6.2.171 |
| OpenAlex | W2031156182 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
Initially, the minimum corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) program was promoted as a policy to reduce U.S. vulnerability to oil shocks. In the past two years, however, concern about global warming has resulted in new political pressures to raise CAFE once again to reduce the growth in U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. In this paper, I do not attempt to provide a detailed critique of these two objectives. I simply take the goals as given and draw upon estimates from the empirical literature to show that CAFE is a very costly instrument for achieving them. In addition, I compare the costs of meeting the same objectives through a fuel or carbon tax
Business · Carbon tax · Climate policy · Economic policy · Economics · Economy · Greenhouse gas · Natural resource economics · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Energy Efficiency and Management · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2018 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |